Movies That Should Not Have Been PG
by redhotyankees | created - 11 Sep 2015 | updated - 21 Mar 2016 | PublicThey claim there PG, so you think there family-friendly but not necessary
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1. Poltergeist (1982)
PG | 114 min | Horror, Thriller
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Votes: 179,659 | Gross: $76.61M
Contains adult language, drugs, heavy usage of frighting and intense scenes, and overall this movie is way to dark and scary for children to watch
2. Beetlejuice (1988)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe
Votes: 340,299 | Gross: $73.71M
Contains adult language, including one use of the "f" word, many sexual gestures, and is too dark and scary for children
3. Uncle Buck (1989)
PG | 100 min | Comedy
Laid back commitment-phobe Buck babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: John Candy, Macaulay Culkin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann
Votes: 107,772 | Gross: $66.76M
Contains adult language, teen partying/drinking, and a sex scene.
4. Gremlins (1984)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, John Louie
Votes: 247,900 | Gross: $148.17M
Contains adult language, drinking, smoking, some mild sexual references, when the creatures turn bad it may be too scary for children to watch
5. 18 Again! (1988)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An aging ruthless businessman swaps bodies with his grandson in the wake of getting into a car accident.
Director: Paul Flaherty | Stars: Charlie Schlatter, George Burns, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris
Votes: 5,032 | Gross: $2.57M
Contains a naked woman, (a model for art though), adult language, smoking, a woman tries to seduce a man
6. Ghostbusters (1984)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Votes: 450,464 | Gross: $238.63M
Contains adult language, smoking, a woman tries to seduce a man a ghost is implied to being having sex with a living man offscreen, and we see his reaction, the ghosts may be too scary for children
7. Jaws (1975)
PG | 124 min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 659,741 | Gross: $260.00M
Contains adult language, drugs, a lot of drinking, very violent, dead body parts of people after being killed off the shark are shown, and overall is too dark and scary for children
8. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 69,894 | Gross: $24.95M
Contains nudity, showing a woman's breast exposed, and a man's buttocks, violence, profanity, and may be too scary for children.
9. Labyrinth (1986)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Sixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.
Director: Jim Henson | Stars: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson
Votes: 149,644 | Gross: $12.73M
Contains creatures and monsters which may be too scary for children, the hero is also tricked and drugged towards the end of the movie
10. Airplane! (1980)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Votes: 261,243 | Gross: $83.40M
Contains adult language, drugs, several suicides (all of them comic and funny), violence, a man is stabbed with a knife, a naked woman
11. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
PG | 115 min | Action, Adventure
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,037,161 | Gross: $248.16M
Contains adult language, a sex scene, very violent, drinking and smoking, and there are many scary and dark scenes for children to watch
12. Mousehunt (1997)
PG | 98 min | Comedy
Two stumblebum inheritors are determined to rid their antique house of a mouse who is equally determined to stay where he is.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin
Votes: 60,519 | Gross: $61.92M
Contains adult language, very violent, many sexual gestures, an implied sex scene, it is also a dark comedy which may not be suitable for children
13. A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and stage actor Count Olaf, who is secretly plotting to steal their parents' vast fortune.
Director: Brad Silberling | Stars: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken
Votes: 221,164 | Gross: $118.63M
Contains a dark plot, about an old man trying to kill children (not in a comedic way at all). The fact that the parents are killed in the beginning leaving the characters orphaned may scary some children
14. It's Alive (1974)
PG | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever it is scared. And it is easily scared.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: John P. Ryan, Sharon Farrell, Andrew Duggan, Guy Stockwell
Votes: 8,980
Contains very bloody violence, adult language, and may be too scary for children
15. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr
Votes: 56,813 | Gross: $27.15M
Contains adult language, drugs, many sexual references, two shots of women bare-chested
16. Salem's Lot (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
Stars: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia
Votes: 27,493
Contains adult content, and several vampire attacks and neck biting which may be too scary for children
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