Old Dads [2023] [R] – 6.4.10 (2024)

Why is “Old Dads” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “pervasive language, sexual material, nudity, and brief drug use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes nudity in an exotic dance club, discussions of an unplanned pregnancy, a few fistfights leaving some bruising, a couple of skirmishes between children leaving some scrapes, many arguments between adults, and over 170 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

Three middle-aged men (Bill Burr, Bokeem Woodbine and Bobby Carnivale) sell their sports business, end up with a millennial manager (Miles Robbins), and soon find that they are out of step with current societal norms when they remain to work for the younger man. Also with Katie Aselton, Reign Edwards, Erin Wu, Jackie Tohn, Rachael Harris, Bobby Lee and Bruce Dern. Directed by Bill Burr. [Running Time: 1:46]

Old Dads SEX/NUDITY 6

– Two women at a strip club wear bikinis while writhing around dance poles in the background; we see the bare buttocks of three women wearing thong bikini bottoms, and three women wear bikinis that reveal bare legs, buttocks and breasts; one of the women sits in the lap of a man and giggles and another man ignores a woman lap dancer wearing short-shorts, who wriggles her clothed buttocks toward him, which he slaps twice.
►A man finds that his much-younger girlfriend is pregnant even after he had a vasectomy and she asks him to marry her; he leaves but returns the next day to propose to her and she says yes. We see two pregnant women with large bellies in a few scenes and later hear that one of them went to the hospital in labor, and that scene cuts to her holding a baby while in a hospital bed.
►We hear in a meeting that trans wait staff is to work a kids’ party and a couple of fathers call them “trannys,” causing others to shout angrily. A man refers to abortion as “flushing it.” We hear that two elderly men may be getting married and see a photo of them standing close to each other and smiling.
►A few women wear crop tops (revealing cleavage) and short-shorts and one woman wears a low-cut blouse that exposes deep cleavage. Several women at a gym wear clingy tops with clingy yoga pants.

Old Dads VIOLENCE/GORE 4

– Five men get into a brawl with punches and kicks, and falling down: two men have slight bruising on their foreheads and two other men are unconscious, without visible injuries. A fistfight breaks out among several men. A woman slaps a man in the face when he says her baby isn’t his. In film footage, a man and a woman each hit the other with a large white disk with a loud slap (no injuries appear). Two preschool boys push each other and one boy throws a big stick into the back of the other’s head and body, causing crying and a big red elbow scrape; the injured child’s father trips the perpetrator, who falls and is led away screaming by his own father while his mother gives him back his stick. A preschool boy slams into a pregnant woman while running, she tells him to please not do that, and he slams a fist into her large belly; she tells him not to do it but his mother yells at her and the two women trade insults and leave in opposite directions, but later become friends.
►A husband breaks into his own home by breaking in the front door and his wife shouts at him and tells him to leave. Two preschool boys scream for several seconds in one scene. A man is two minutes late when picking up his son at a private preschool, shouts angrily when he receives a two-dollar fine, and the principal berates him, and he calls her a crude name; other adults and children stare in shock and he receives an intervention from the principal in which he apologizes to the whole school of parents and children in the parking lot. An angry man shouts at others in several scenes and he attends therapy for anger management so he does not lose his wife and kids, but when someone makes him angry, he mutters crude names under his breath. Three couples argue in several different scenes, sometimes screaming loudly at each other. Two women argue loudly in one scene and men argue briefly in different scenes. In three different scenes, a man and two women cry. A man says that cocaine makes him need to run to the bathroom.
►An elderly man driving a hired car picks up three middle-aged men and belittles and mocks them; they get out and take three E-scooters, swerving through traffic as drivers honk. A company fires everyone aged 35 and older and the fired people become upset; the company later pays a settlement for age discrimination. We hear that a school principal has been embezzling and see her arrested and led away by three detectives.
►A man takes a serious fall off an electric scooter over a large recycle can, but gets up and leaves. A car runs over an armadillo with a loud thump: we see the dead animal in a long shot, and in a close-up, and a man picks up the armadillo (it looks plastic and we see some white debris under it). A woman burps long and loudly and later flatulates loudly, while a man nearby also flatulates. A man swallows his wedding ring, coughs and chokes, and he says it will pass through his system later.

Old Dads LANGUAGE 10

– 173 F-words and its derivatives, 3 obscene hand gestures, 16 sexual references, 47 scatological terms, 26 anatomical terms, 25 mild obscenities, 6 derogatory terms for African-American people, 3 derogatory terms for gay people, name-calling (whiny vegans, obese, crazy, bastards, stupid, insane, lunatic, maniac, egomaniac, douche, douchebag, snitch, whor*, punk, toxic, meter maids, weak-kneed, cold reptilian, Boomer, Slacker), exclamations (whoo, shut-up), 8 religious profanities (GD), 34 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus Christ, oh my God, thank God, oh God, Godspeed, Jesus, Christ’s sake, Holy [scatological term deleted], I swear to God). | profanity glossary |

Old Dads SUBSTANCE USE

– A man says he snorts cocaine on the floor in a car backseat and when he sits up to face the camera he snorts twice, a man mentions “blow” and marijuana gummies, and a man says that cocaine makes him need to run to the bathroom. Buckets of bottles and cans of beer are seen in a backyard and 3 men hold bottles (we do not see them drinking), two men in a café are shown with mugs of beer and not drinking, men and women at a party hold glasses of wine (no one is shown drinking), men and women drink from red plastic cups (implying alcoholic beverages) at a party, a man sits at home with a bottle of whiskey and a rocks glass with some whiskey in it (he does not drink), a woman at home holds a glass of wine but does not drink it, a man gets drunk in a club and slurs his words saying that he is “[mild obscenity deleted] hammered,” and three men agree to get ripped (i.e. drunk) and go to a club where one man drinks a co*cktail that we hear is his fifth drink while another man sips from a glass of whiskey. A man vaping with a lot of smoke tells a man smoking a cigar that no smoking is allowed and they argue briefly.

Old Dads DISCUSSION TOPICS

– Selling a business, generational differences/fitting in, bigotry, age discrimination/work culture shock, work surveillance of employees, morality clauses for work, midlife crises, political correctness, gender-neutral clothing, objectifying women, uncontrolled anger and interventions for same, parenthood in later life, learning to use more sensitive language to replace gender and racial slurs, living off the grid.

Old Dads MESSAGE

– People of different generations can learn to get along.

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