Parents Guide for
Midnight Cowboy (1969) More at IMDbPro »

There is no full frontal nudity in any scene.

-The main character makes a living off of prostitution and is constantly denying he's gay.

-Different bits of a scene, in which a man and a woman are interrupted in the back seat of a car, appear several times throughout the movie. Clips show the woman's bare breasts and the man fully nude from the rear. It is implied that the men interrupting the couple rape both people. We see the woman running naked into the house. In another clip in this montage, a boy is being spanked on his bare bottom.

-Each of the two principle characters have a poster of a topless woman on his wall. One of them is barely covered under something else.

-The camera quickly pans up a man's body, turned to the side, as he picks up the soap in the shower.

-A sex scene shows a man and woman's butts as they scurry to the bedroom. This sex is portrayed in a montage of other images none of which include nudity.

-A man touches another man kisses his dressed body all the way down, it's implied that he's giving him oral sex.

-In a party scene we see several women topless or in see-through blouses.

-A sex scene briefly shows a fully nude man thrusting on top of a woman. His clinching butt is seen briefly. Otherwise the film is shot from the shoulders up.

-A man picks up a hustler but backs out of asking for sex.

-There is quite a bit of dialog about the work of prostitution.

-A man beats an old man a couple of times with punching and slapping leaving the man's face bloody and knocking his dentures out. He shoves the old man onto a bed and shoves a telephone into his mouth. The scene is cut short before we know the outcome, but there is later dialog that implies he was killed.

-There are several flashback montages of the attempted rape of both a man and his girlfriend by a group of men.

-A principle character is repeatedly shown shoplifting and picking pockets.

-A man is sick and coughing throughout the movie. He later dies with his eyes wide open.

The S-word is used three times. There is frequent use of "hell" and "goddamn." The words faggot and fag are used a lot.

Characters smoke throughout the film.

An old man is shown sitting up in bed drinking beer from a bottle as a boy and his grandmother lie happily beside him.

One party scene shows significant marijuana use, and a man offers uppers and downers.