Wondering if No Hard Feelings is ok for teens? This rated R film is marketed as a raunchy comedy. And it is, but it’s also rarely funny. With full frontal nudity and a lot of sexual content, here’s what parents need to know in this No Hard Feelings Parents Guide.
No Hard Feelings Parents Guide
Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence), a 30-ish year old, lives in Montauk, an area where rich people come to vacation in the summers. She believes it’s people like them who are causing her to lose her house when she can’t pay the taxes on her home her mother left her.
After losing her car, she can’t be an Uber driver anymore which is what makes her big money in the summer. Maddie finds an interesting Craigs List job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), before he leaves for college. If she sleeps with him, they’ll give her a car and then she can go back to being an Uber driver and save her house.
All she has to do is seduce a nerdy kid. Easy, right? To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers that awkward Percy is not a sure thing.
Age Rating: Why is No Hard Feelings Rated R?
No Hard Feelings is rated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual content, and brief drug use which means some content is not suitable for kids under 17.
Language in No Hard Feelings
There are at least over 40 uses of f*ck, but then I stopped counting. There are also uses of sh*t, a**, a**hole, bullsh*t, b*itch, g-ddamn, and hell.
Mature Content: Is No Hard Feelings OK for Teens?
There is a lot of sexual content including jokes about masturbation, porn, sex dreams, sex workers, putting out, and vaginas.
There is full female frontal nudity for comedic effect, but the scene and shots are pretty long, and you can see everything shaking and moving. You can see a male’s naked backside and behind on a car.
A character is seen undressing in front of another character in order to have sex.
A male character is seen in his underwear.
A character puts a finger trap on his penis and you can see him thrusting back and forth trying to get it off.
A character is seen shaking her butt and gyrating on the ground and asking another character to smack it.
Characters drink alcohol and are seen smoking and using recreational drugs.
There is some violence including characters punching others and characters in peril.
Is No Hard Feelings Appropriate for Kids Under 17?
No Hard Feelings felt a bro movie and like some of my brain cells died a little after watching it. You can expect some full frontal nudity, a lot of crass language, sexual references and jokes, and profanity used by some of the characters. To sum it up, No Hard Feelings is not kid friendly or appropriate for tweens and most teens.
Will some teens love the movie? Of course. Crass sex jokes, a naked Jennifer Lawrence, teen partying…I mean what’s not to love? The whole premise of the film is outrageous, and maybe I’m not in on the joke, and it’s a meta humor.
I get it. I’m not the core audience for this type of movie. I brought a friend who can appreciate this type of humor to help temper my expectations, but even at the end she wasn’t laughing. We were both a little shocked that Jennifer Lawrence was listed as a producer. She did this to herself?
Jennifer Lawrence went hard though, and I’ll give her props for that, but you know the saying “less is more?” It just missed the mark on so many levels and relied on many cliches and stereotypes, which is unfortunate, because Lawrence really can be very funny.
The guy next to me at the theater thought it was the funniest movie he had ever seen, laughing out loud at every single thing. He was the target audience, and I kind of hated that, because they made the protagonist some angry, dumb, desperate woman who has to have sex with a teenager to “fix him” socially. Because finally having sex will prepare you for college and make you normal?
Aside from the crude jokes, I was hoping for some smart comedy mixed in, too, but I was left hanging.
However, when Andrew Barth Feldman was singing in a restaurant, that felt like an incredibly genuine moment. Not only is he crazy talented, but that scene felt authentic and didn’t rely on shock value.
No Hard Feelings needed more moments of authenticity versus manufactured laughs. It tried, but I definitely had some hard feelings about the movie by the end.
