The Persian Version
strong language, sex references
Director(s)Maryam Keshavarz
Production year2023
Genre(s)Comedy, Drama, Romance
Approx. running minutes102m
CastLayla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bijan Daneshmand, Bella Warda, Sachli Gholamalizad, Chiara Stella, Shervin Alenabi, Jerry Habibi, Arty Froushan, Maryam Keshavarz, Maryam Keshavarz, Peter Block, Luca Borghese, Anne Carey, Ben Howe, Rostam Batmanglij, André Jäger, Abolfazl Talooni, JoAnne Yarrow, Ekin Bilen, Lindsey Weissmueller, Amber Unkle, Firat Yunluel
The Persian Version
strong language, sex references
THE PERSIAN VERSION is a US comedy drama in which an estranged mother and daughter in a large Iranian-American family ar ...
THE PERSIAN VERSION is a US comedy drama in which an estranged mother and daughter in a large Iranian-American family are faced with dark secret from the past.
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), a rude middle finger gesture and milder bad language such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
There are comic references to anal sex. Milder sex references include comments about one night stands and adulterous relationships.
additional issues
A woman in a distressed state briefly contemplates taking her own life, but changes her mind.
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
There is mild comic gun threat.
strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
14/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd.
violence
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
threat and horror
There is mild comic gun threat.
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), a rude middle finger gesture and milder bad language such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
There are comic references to anal sex. Milder sex references include comments about one night stands and adulterous relationships.
discrimination
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in a classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
drugs
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
suicide and self-harm
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
injury detail
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
theme
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child.
additional issues
A woman in a distressed state briefly contemplates taking her own life, but changes her mind.
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
There is mild comic gun threat.
strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
02/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
SPHE VOD
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), a rude middle finger gesture and milder bad language such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
There are comic references to anal sex. Milder sex references include comments about one night stands and adulterous relationships.
additional issues
A woman in a distressed state briefly contemplates taking her own life, but changes her mind.
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
There is mild comic gun threat.
Classified Date:
11/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd.
Classified Date:
11/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd.
Classified date02/04/2024
LanguageEnglish
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), a rude middle finger gesture and milder bad language such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
There are comic references to anal sex. Milder sex references include comments about one night stands and adulterous relationships.
additional issues
A woman in a distressed state briefly contemplates taking her own life, but changes her mind.
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
There is mild comic gun threat.
Director(s)Maryam Keshavarz
Production year2023
Genre(s)Comedy, Drama, Romance
Approx. running minutes102m
CastLayla Mohammadi, Niousha Noor, Kamand Shafieisabet, Bijan Daneshmand, Bella Warda, Sachli Gholamalizad, Chiara Stella, Shervin Alenabi, Jerry Habibi, Arty Froushan, Maryam Keshavarz, Maryam Keshavarz, Peter Block, Luca Borghese, Anne Carey, Ben Howe, Rostam Batmanglij, André Jäger, Abolfazl Talooni, JoAnne Yarrow, Ekin Bilen, Lindsey Weissmueller, Amber Unkle, Firat Yunluel
strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
14/11/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd.
violence
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
threat and horror
There is mild comic gun threat.
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), a rude middle finger gesture and milder bad language such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
There are comic references to anal sex. Milder sex references include comments about one night stands and adulterous relationships.
discrimination
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in a classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
drugs
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
suicide and self-harm
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
injury detail
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
theme
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child.
additional issues
A woman in a distressed state briefly contemplates taking her own life, but changes her mind.
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
There is mild comic gun threat.
strong language, sex references
Classified Date:
02/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
SPHE VOD
language
There is strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), a rude middle finger gesture and milder bad language such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell' and 'God'.
sex
There are comic references to anal sex. Milder sex references include comments about one night stands and adulterous relationships.
additional issues
A woman in a distressed state briefly contemplates taking her own life, but changes her mind.
Upsetting scenes include the stillbirth of a child
A mother expresses disapproval of her lesbian daughter's sexuality, although her older siblings accept the way she wants to live her life. A young Iranian girl imagines herself sitting in classroom and being called a "smelly terrorist" by her fellow pupils. Discrimination is not endorsed by the work as a whole.
There are brief bloody images in childbirth scenes.
There are infrequent verbal drug references.
There is infrequent mild violence in a still cartoon image of a punch to a face which produces a blood spurt.
There is mild comic gun threat.
Classified Date:
11/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd.
Classified Date:
11/12/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures Corporation Ltd.
Classified date02/04/2024
LanguageEnglish
