• Director(s)

    Wes Anderson

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    23/05/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    101m

  • Cast

    Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera

Film

The Phoenician Scheme

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In this espionage comedy, a businessman seeking investment for a project gets into a series of adventures. …

In this espionage comedy, a businessman seeking investment for a project gets into a series of adventures.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

nudity

  • Director(s)

    Wes Anderson

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    23/05/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    101m

  • Cast

    Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera

strong injury detail
Classified Date:
06/05/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
violence
People are shot and engage in physical fights. Violence includes the use of improvised weapons and blows being delivered to heads. There are verbal references to a child being physically abused.
threat and horror
Scenes of threat include plane crashes, people being held at gunpoint and people pulling grenade pins and threatening to cause explosions.
language
Infrequent mild bad language ('shit') is accompanied by milder terms including 'goddamn' and 'hell'.
sex
There is brief sight of book covers which refer to sex and pornography, including an image showing a person being flogged. Moderate sex references include a conversation which refers to brothels and sex workers.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man apologises to an annoyed woman for having become carried away while drunk, although what the man did is not shown or explained.
suicide and self-harm
Verbal references are made to whether a person took their own life or whether they were murdered.
injury detail
At one point a man is torn in half during an explosion, resulting in a spray of blood and sight of his bisected body. There is also sight of cuts, bruises and blood in the aftermath of both violence and accidents, as well as sight of blood seeping from a bullet wound. A black and white crime scene photo shows a body lying face down with a pool of blood around its head.
nudity
Female breast nudity is seen on classical paintings in the background of some scenes.
theme
Occasional references are made to murder, death, killing and bereavement, as part of a backstory.
alcohol and smoking
There is frequent smoking of cigarettes, cigars and pipes, as well as drinking of alcohol, in some cases to slight excess.
Classified Date:
07/04/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Classified Date:
07/04/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Universal Pictures Int (UK)

  • Classified date

    06/05/2025

  • Language

    English