Defending Your Life

mild sex references, language, threat, drug references

Director(s)Albert Brooks

Production year1991

Genre(s)Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Approx. running minutes111m

CastAlbert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Julie Cobb, Peter Schuck, Time Winters, Gary Beach, Sharlie Stuart, Beth Black, Albert Brooks, Albert Brooks, Michael Grillo, Michael Gore, Allen Daviau, David Finfer, Barbara Claman, Mark Saks, Ida Random

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Defending Your Life

mild sex references, language, threat, drug references

DEFENDING YOUR LIFE is a US romantic comedy-fantasy, from 1991, in which a man must conquer his fears in the afterlife.

threat and horror

A man raises a hand as if to strike his wife, but they immediately embrace. A man is killed in a car crash, but no impact or aftermath is seen. There is a mild action sequence involving moving trams.

language

There is use of mild bad language ('turd', 'shit', 'piss', 'balls'), as well as milder terms such as 'hell', 'damn', 'screw', 'moron' and 'God'.

sex

There is word play over the term 'screw'. A man claims to have made money from 'adult books' and 'strip clubs'.

drugs

There is a cautionary reference to 'getting stoned', as well as a rhetorical reference to TV being like 'heroin' for children.

additional issues

There is very mild comic violence when one child punches another in a scene of bullying.

mild sex references, language, threat, drug references

Classified Date:

20/05/1991

Version:

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Warner Brothers

mild sex references, language, threat, drug references

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Version:

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

threat and horror

A man raises a hand as if to strike his wife, but they immediately embrace. A man is killed in a car crash, but no impact or aftermath is seen. There is a mild action sequence involving moving trams.

language

There is use of mild bad language ('turd', 'shit', 'piss', 'balls'), as well as milder terms such as 'hell', 'damn', 'screw', 'moron' and 'God'.

sex

There is word play over the term 'screw'. A man claims to have made money from 'adult books' and 'strip clubs'.

drugs

There is a cautionary reference to 'getting stoned', as well as a rhetorical reference to TV being like 'heroin' for children.

additional issues

There is very mild comic violence when one child punches another in a scene of bullying.

Classified Date:

26/09/1991

Version:

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Warner Home Video Ltd

Classified Date:

17/07/1991

Version:

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Warner Home Video Ltd

Classified Date:

20/03/1991

Version:

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Warner Brothers

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

10/09/1991

Version:

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Warner Home Video Ltd

Classified date19/03/2021

LanguageEnglish

threat and horror

A man raises a hand as if to strike his wife, but they immediately embrace. A man is killed in a car crash, but no impact or aftermath is seen. There is a mild action sequence involving moving trams.

language

There is use of mild bad language ('turd', 'shit', 'piss', 'balls'), as well as milder terms such as 'hell', 'damn', 'screw', 'moron' and 'God'.

sex

There is word play over the term 'screw'. A man claims to have made money from 'adult books' and 'strip clubs'.

drugs

There is a cautionary reference to 'getting stoned', as well as a rhetorical reference to TV being like 'heroin' for children.

additional issues

There is very mild comic violence when one child punches another in a scene of bullying.

Director(s)Albert Brooks

Production year1991

Genre(s)Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Approx. running minutes111m

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mild sex references, language, threat, drug references

Classified Date:

20/05/1991

Version:

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Warner Brothers

mild sex references, language, threat, drug references

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Version:

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

threat and horror

A man raises a hand as if to strike his wife, but they immediately embrace. A man is killed in a car crash, but no impact or aftermath is seen. There is a mild action sequence involving moving trams.

language

There is use of mild bad language ('turd', 'shit', 'piss', 'balls'), as well as milder terms such as 'hell', 'damn', 'screw', 'moron' and 'God'.

sex

There is word play over the term 'screw'. A man claims to have made money from 'adult books' and 'strip clubs'.

drugs

There is a cautionary reference to 'getting stoned', as well as a rhetorical reference to TV being like 'heroin' for children.

additional issues

There is very mild comic violence when one child punches another in a scene of bullying.

Classified Date:

26/09/1991

Version:

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Warner Home Video Ltd

Classified Date:

17/07/1991

Version:

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Warner Home Video Ltd

Classified Date:

20/03/1991

Version:

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Warner Brothers

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

19/03/2021

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

10/09/1991

Version:

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Warner Home Video Ltd

Classified date19/03/2021

LanguageEnglish