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- Sex & Nudity (9)
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- Profanity (6)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (5)
- Spoilers (3)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- No sex or nudity in this movie.
- Anita is seen putting on pantyhose during the 'Quintet' number, while in a bra and slip.
- A few remarks referring to prostitutes, cross dressers. Very subtle.
- At the gym dance, some girls are wearing tight dresses.
- Maria asks Anita to lower a dress's neck by one inch, and Anita replies "Too much." This implies cleavage.
- The Jets grab Anita and force Baby John onto her, but Doc stops them before anything can happen. Implies rape.
- Tony is seen sleeping in bed with Maria (he is shirtless, she is in a nightgown), but it's vaguely implied that they had sex.
- Some kissing and making out throughout the film.
- Some sexual dancing, lifting skirts, subtle thrusting etc.
Violence & Gore
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- Several people are murdered in this movie. A lot of racism and hate speech.
- The Jets and the Sharks have a gang-fight in the opening scene, but it's done in the manner of a stylized dance-number. Baby john has his cheek cut. Little blood.
- In one musical number Riff is bumped from one member of his gang to the next. Played for laughs.
- Maria throws her fists at Tony in a rage.
- Several Jets get in a loud scuffle, causing an angry tenant to throw a glass bottle from above a high window at them, shattering upon the street.
- Doc slaps Tony.
Profanity
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- At the end of the Gee Officer Krupke song, the guys sing, "Gee Officer Krupke, Krup you!" clearly meant to suggest the f-word or similar, though substituted.
- A man shouted, "Who you callin' good-for-nothin', you loudmouth crud head?"
- A man told a mob to shut up (forcefully told them to stop talking) and called them a dirty bunch of good-for-nothings, and a man in the mob called him a loud mouth crudhead (crud is vulgar slang for dried semen or something undesirable).
- Most profanity is racial, and is used through some parts, such as "white boy", "spic", "Polack", etc.
- Mild swear words like "damn" and "hell".
- There is one use of tramp near the end of the film.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Several young men smoke cigarettes.
- In one song the singer mentions pot, that his parents wouldn't let him smoke it.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The final 20 minutes are very depressing.
- Black and brown face may offend
- Some scenes listed under violence could be considered intense.
- Anybodys scurries around the city, and Chino comes out of the shadows. This can be frightening for some, unsettling, and very unexpected.
- The plot includes the deaths of main characters making the film emotionally intense.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Riff and Bernardo have a knife fight (again, more of a dance number than an actual fight), however, Riff is stabbed to death and we see blood on his abdomen and the knife. In revenge, Tony kills Bernardo by stabbing him. There is blood on both knifes after the deaths
- Chino shoots Tony, who then dies (no blood is seen). Maria then threatens others with the gun and threatens to shoot herself, but this never happens.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The scene where Chino tells Maria that Bernardo was killed by Tony is very intense psychologically, especially where the music reaches a fever pitch.
