Starman

Director(s)Robert Chenault

Production year1986

Genre(s)Drama, Science Fiction

Approx. running minutes46m

CastRobert Hays, Robert Hays, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Michael Cavanaugh, Mimi Kuzyk, Ruth Manning, Jason Wingreen, Patrick Culliton, Lou Cutell, Mark Burke, Charles Davis, Charles S. Dubin, James S. Henerson, James G. Hirsch, Mike Gray, John Mason, Dana Kaproff, Eric D. Andersen, Art Stafford, Dick Dinman

Starman

STARMAN is a sci-fi drama TV series; in this episode, a man visits his mother at Christmas.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There are brief bloody images in the aftermath of a helicopter crash.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images, mild sex references

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

There are mild verbal sex references, and a scene in which a teenage boy makes excuses to his father when he is caught staring at swimsuit models in a magazine.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images, mild sex references

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

Sex workers are discreetly depicted in a city street scene.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images, discrimination

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

discrimination

An athletics coach pejoratively addresses his male students as 'girls'.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

mild violence, bloody images, discrimination

Classified Date:

09/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Mild violence includes a scuffle between two colleagues, with one pinning the other against a wall before being overpowered.

discrimination

There is a scene in which a teenager boy makes a disparaging remark about female bodybuilders.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images. There is also medical detail such as a blood transfusion, and scenes in which a man collapses.

upsetting scenes, brief bloody image

Classified Date:

20/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There is brief sight of a limited amount of blood on a man's hand.

theme

There are references to terminal illness, which include a death scene. There are also associated scenes in which people cry.

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A man in a jail cell brags in undetailed, comic terms about his activities running a string of sex workers.

brief sexual threat

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man touches a woman's face and grabs her around the waist, ignoring her protests, though he is quickly stopped by another person intervening.

mild bloody images, sex references, threat

Classified Date:

21/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Characters, including a teenage boy, are forced to run away after the police and military try to detain them.

sex

A woman asks a man to spend the night with her and they kiss passionately.

injury detail

There is brief sight of a man's bloodily injured hand after a helicopter crash.

moderate threat, sex references, domestic abuse

Classified Date:

21/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man becomes aggressive with his estranged wife and pushes her into a chair whilst they argue with each other. She subsequently repeatedly hits and shouts at him whilst he is holding their infant child. Characters attack a woman and a teenage boy, slapping and hitting them.

threat and horror

A gang of men surround a woman, grab her and push her onto a bonnet, threatening her with violence. A woman is thrown out of a moving car into the middle of nowhere.

sex

A woman implies she was going to sleep with men for money but changed her mind at the last minute resulting in them being aggressive with her. In a misunderstanding, a woman believes two men are trying to pick her up in a car for sex.

mild threat, violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is hit hard on the back of the neck causing him to fall to the ground.

threat and horror

Sequences include mild threat from a malevolent gang of people smugglers. A man and a pregnant woman are bundled into a car and held captive.

injury detail

There is brief sight of blood on the back of a man's hand and on the ground next to him.

mild threat, bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Scenes of mild threat include car chases and a man and a teenage boy are chased by a malevolent gang of government officials.

injury detail

There is brief sight of a man's bloody injured hand which is dripping onto the ground.

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

02/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A billboard outside a strip club shows a cartoon image of a woman wearing skimpy underwear and a reference to a “topless love act”. At a stag night, a woman in revealing lingerie jumps out of an outsize cake and dances suggestively. There are also verbal references to “X-rated movies”.

mild violence, brief bloody images

Classified Date:

21/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

In one scene, two teenage boys briefly fight. However, blows are masked and undetailed.

injury detail

There is brief sight of a limited amount of blood on the back of a man's hand and on the ground.

brief sexual harassment

Classified Date:

02/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

An unsympathetic character roughly grabs a woman's arm after she turns down his advances. However, another character quickly intervenes and the perpetrator's behaviour results in negative consequences.

mild threat, violence, bloody images, sex references

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A pair of characters are shot with a tranquiliser gun. A character uses a fantastical orb to blast a laboratory worker to the ground.

threat and horror

Characters are pursued and captured by the military. During a scene of gun threat, a man experiences a heart attack, however, he is subsequently revived. Scenes of mild threat take place within a sci-fi context and result in reassuring outcomes.

sex

A man begins to remove a woman's clothing and they kiss.

injury detail

There is brief sight of blood on a man's hand, and on a wounded man's forehead.

scenes of bullying

Classified Date:

02/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

theme

There are scenes of school bullying in which a teenage boy punches his classmate in his stomach and hits him in the face with a basketball, resulting in a bloody nostril and bruising beneath his eye. On one occasion, another character intervenes using extraterrestrial powers to hit the bullies with tennis balls. Bullying is clearly condemned and the issue is ultimately resolved.

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Classified date20/49/2023

LanguageEnglish

injury detail

There is brief sight of a limited amount of blood on a man's hand.

theme

There are references to terminal illness, which include a death scene. There are also associated scenes in which people cry.

additional issues

There is also very mild bad language ('damn'), scenes in which people argue, and a brief scene in which a man threatens another man.

mild violence, bloody images, discrimination

Classified Date:

09/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Mild violence includes a scuffle between two colleagues, with one pinning the other against a wall before being overpowered.

discrimination

There is a scene in which a teenager boy makes a disparaging remark about female bodybuilders.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images. There is also medical detail such as a blood transfusion, and scenes in which a man collapses.

brief sexual harassment

Classified Date:

02/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

02/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

scenes of bullying

Classified Date:

02/01/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

theme

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images, mild sex references

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

There are mild verbal sex references, and a scene in which a teenage boy makes excuses to his father when he is caught staring at swimsuit models in a magazine.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images, mild sex references

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

Sex workers are discreetly depicted in a city street scene.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images, discrimination

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

discrimination

An athletics coach pejoratively addresses his male students as 'girls'.

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

mild threat, violence, bloody images, sex references

Classified Date:

27/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A pair of characters are shot with a tranquiliser gun. A character uses a fantastical orb to blast a laboratory worker to the ground.

threat and horror

sex

A man begins to remove a woman's clothing and they kiss.

injury detail

There is brief sight of blood on a man's hand, and on a wounded man's forehead.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There are brief bloody images in the aftermath of a helicopter crash.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

The opening credits sequence includes brief bloody images.

moderate sex references

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sex

A man in a jail cell brags in undetailed, comic terms about his activities running a string of sex workers.

brief sexual threat

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man touches a woman's face and grabs her around the waist, ignoring her protests, though he is quickly stopped by another person intervening.

mild threat, violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is hit hard on the back of the neck causing him to fall to the ground.

threat and horror

Sequences include mild threat from a malevolent gang of people smugglers. A man and a pregnant woman are bundled into a car and held captive.

injury detail

There is brief sight of blood on the back of a man's hand and on the ground next to him.

mild threat, bloody images

Classified Date:

22/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Scenes of mild threat include car chases and a man and a teenage boy are chased by a malevolent gang of government officials.

injury detail

There is brief sight of a man's bloody injured hand which is dripping onto the ground.

mild bloody images, sex references, threat

Classified Date:

21/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

threat and horror

Characters, including a teenage boy, are forced to run away after the police and military try to detain them.

sex

A woman asks a man to spend the night with her and they kiss passionately.

injury detail

There is brief sight of a man's bloodily injured hand after a helicopter crash.

moderate threat, sex references, domestic abuse

Classified Date:

21/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

threat and horror

A gang of men surround a woman, grab her and push her onto a bonnet, threatening her with violence. A woman is thrown out of a moving car into the middle of nowhere.

sex

mild violence, brief bloody images

Classified Date:

21/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

In one scene, two teenage boys briefly fight. However, blows are masked and undetailed.

injury detail

There is brief sight of a limited amount of blood on the back of a man's hand and on the ground.

upsetting scenes, brief bloody image

Classified Date:

20/12/2023

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There is brief sight of a limited amount of blood on a man's hand.

theme

There are references to terminal illness, which include a death scene. There are also associated scenes in which people cry.

Director(s)Robert Chenault

Production year1986

Genre(s)Drama, Science Fiction

Approx. running minutes46m

Classified date20/49/2023

LanguageEnglish