Parents guide

A man is on top of the woman (after implied sex). Nothing shown.

A man touches another man's clothed crotch and says says "smell you," then smells his fingers.

A man reads a pornographic magazine that depicts cartoon men and women having sex.

Male buttocks are seen when a prisoner is forcibly undressed by guards.

There is audio of a man and a woman groaning/moaning. Nothing is shown.

A woman references the number of times she had sex in one night.

Quite a few executions by electric chair. One is botched.

An inmate attempts to kill a guard by strangulation, and kicks another guard in the process.

A man describes a dog attack which left his son blind, and that he shot the dog afterwards.

Due to a purposefully botched setup, an inmate being executed in the electric chair is zapped for a long time. His body convulses, and flames erupt on his body and under his death hood as he screams. The scene lasts several minutes.

A man cradles the bodies of two dead girls, their hair matted with blood. Their father bloodlessly punches him across the face a few times before he is pulled away.

An antagonist is shot in the chest, some blood and bullet wounds appear on his shirt as he slumps down dead.

A prisoner elbows one guard and chokes another with handcuffs (a bit of blood spurts from his mouth) before bashing his head on the wall, a bit of blood is on their faces. He then kicks an incoming guard in the crotch before another one hits the prisoner twice, knocking him out.

An antagonist hits a prisoner once on the fingers with a billy club, it's later brought up that three of them were broken as a result.

Fuck, shit, and ass are used alongside lesser profanity.

Wild Bill says the n word.

Alcohol and tobacco use. One character is drugged.

The first execution, while not as violently prolonged as the second, could be hard to watch due to its realism.

Many people are highly racist towards John Coffey and towards black people in general. In particular, one man compares black people to dogs. He says that both are incapable of love, and will ultimately turn on you if you trust them too much.

An antagonist attacks some guards early on. In two scenes, a protagonist is shown to be in pain while urinating.

The kidnap, rape, and murder of two little girls play a role in the plot. The rapes and murders are not shown. The kidnapping, which is accomplished via manipulation rather than brute force, is shown.