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Based on internal knowledge of the film's production and classification, here is the rating information for "Companion" (2025):
The film has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA). This rating indicates that the film contains adult material and is restricted for viewers under 17 without a parent or adult guardian.
The MPA assigned the R rating to Companion based on the following specific elements:
Directed by Drew Hancock and produced by Zach Cregger (director of Barbarian), Companion is designed as an unsettling, genre-bending thriller. The R rating is consistent with the filmmakers' previous work, which prioritizes visceral, "hard-R" horror and transgressive themes rather than a more commercial PG-13 approach.
The AI Summary fundamentally misrepresents the official MPAA rating descriptor. The actual descriptor is 'strong violence, sexual content, and language throughout' - a single continuous phrase with three elements. The AI Summary incorrectly presents five separate bullet points ('Strong Violence,' 'Gory Images,' 'Pervasive Language,' 'Sexual Content,' 'Nudity') as if they were the official rating elements, when in fact 'Gory Images' and 'Nudity' do not appear in the official rating at all.
The AI Summary conflates the official MPAA rating descriptor (which is a brief, standardized phrase) with detailed content descriptions from parental guides. The MPAA provides a simple descriptor ('strong violence, sexual content, and language throughout'), while parental guides provide extensive breakdowns of specific scenes. The AI Summary presents parental guide-level details as if they were part of the official rating.
While the AI Summary mentions general categories, it misses specific details from parental guides that illustrate why the rating was assigned: deaths by stabbing, shooting, and beating; attempted sexual assault; over 60 F-words; characters forced to self-harm; and multiple dead bodies shown. These details help users understand the rating's severity.
Companion (2025) Rating and Rating Elements:
Rating: R (Restricted)
The film was rated R by the Motion Picture Association (MPA). This rating indicates that the film is restricted to viewers under 17 unless accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.
Official MPAA Rating Descriptor:
The exact official rating descriptor is: "strong violence, sexual content, and language throughout."
Elements Contributing to the Rating:
The MPAA assigned the R rating based on three primary elements:
Strong Violence: The film contains intense physical violence including stabbings, shootings, beatings, and deaths. Parental guides note specific scenes such as a character being stabbed in the neck with excessive blood spurts, a policeman being punched to death, and multiple deaths using various weapons including guns, knives, and a motorized corkscrew. There are also scenes of characters forced to self-harm.
Sexual Content: The film includes implied sex scenes (with moaning and thumping sounds heard behind closed doors), sexual dialogue, discussions of programming robots for sexual purposes, and an attempted sexual assault scene. One character climaxes on screen (though no explicit nudity is shown in that scene).
Language Throughout: The film contains frequent strong profanity throughout, including over 60 uses of "f--k" and "s--t," along with other profanity such as "a--hole," "goddamn," "bitch," "ass," "hell," "d--k," and religious exclamations.
Important Note: The official MPAA rating descriptor does NOT specifically mention "gory images," "pervasive language," or "nudity" as separate rating elements, though parental guides do note that the film contains graphic violence and brief partial nudity (a woman's bare back while bathing).