a young boy walks in on a man and woman having sex. you don't see them in the act but you hear the bed squeaking and some moaning. it pans over to show him on top of her, but both are under the covers and neither show anything.

a man moons a boy, nothing sexual he's just teaching the boy a lesson so to speak.

a man talks about beating his wife, nothing graphic at all, they simply mention it a couple times.

a man slaps a boy, you don't really see it but you get the gist of it.

a boy spits on a man's face.

a man threatens to hit a boy by raising his fist, he doesn't hit him though.

two men demonstrate how you get "spanked" in jail.

a** is said a few times.

the boy's father is an alcoholic and this is mentioned several times throughout the film. the boy says how his father would "borrow" money from him or steal it from his mother's purse only to spend it on "booze".

a boy and a man have to go pick up the boy's father from a bar, because he'd passed out and urinated himself. they have to bring him home and clean him off (over his boxer underwear, nothing is shown).

there are a few intense scenes i think, none are too bad though and they aren'y very frightening, but they might be a little unsettling for a younger audience.

a boy tells a racist joke to two black men and it clearly makes them uncomfortable.

a boy hits a man with a ruler and yells at him, and then asks if he'd like some more.

a boy demands that a man refers to him as Master Harold and the man explains the consequences, it rattles the boy a bit.

a boy throws a bottle of alcohol and it smashes against a wall.

this movie is based on racism in south africa in the 1950's and how it affected people's friendships and lives, that whole subject matter can be a bit heavy, for any aged person.