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The Painted Veil
Summary: Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.
Runtime: 2 h 05 min
MPAA: PG
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 19,400,000
Domestic: $ 8,060,487
International: $ 18,850,360
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| MPAA Certification | No MPAA rating found yet. Add Family Friendly Rating? |
IMDb Ratinghttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446755/parentalguidelast updated: 2024-10-26Update data | |
Commonsensemedia Ratinghttps://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-painted-veillast updated: 2024-10-26Update data | |
| Message | A spoiled young woman commits adultery, then redeems herself by caring for victims of disease, including her husband. |
| Violence | Cholera wreaks havoc on victims -- some effects revealed in brief, graphic images; a group of men chases Kitty and she falls, runs, and is finally trapped by the group; her bodyguard fires his gun; some fighting when infected refugees attempt to enter the village; flyers call for "death to foreign invaders." |
| Sex | Adulterous affair shown in tense, passionate, short scenes (passionate embracing under covers, covert flirtations); heavy drinking leads to Kitty and Walter's sexual encounter one night in China (his bare bottom is visible as he gets out of bed in the morning); Waddington has a young lover. |
| Language | Very mild: one use of "damn," and several uses of "god." |
| Drugs | Social drinking (on occasion to drunkenness); cigarette smoking; Kitty and Walter have "crippling" hangovers after a night of drinking; Waddington and his girlfriend smoke something narcotic. |
Dove Ratinghttps://dove.org/review/6276-the-painted-veil/ | |
| Faith | None |
| Sex | Husband and wife kiss, implied sex; man and woman have adulterous affair one sex encounter shown but not graphic; implied sexual relationship between man and his young, live-in Chinese woman; husband and wife kiss with sex implied. |
| Language | D-1; G/OMG-4; "For G**sake" |
| Violence | Man grabs wife's arm and threatens to strangle her; mob chases woman through the street; gunshot in air as warning; soldiers confront crowd with guns in hand. |
| Drugs | Cigarette smoking; drinking by main characters portrayed as coping mechanism; man falls over drunk; man makes martinis in lab beakers; adults smoking unknown substance. |
| Nudity | Woman in thin nightgown, cleavage shown; partial nudity in sex scenes - male waist up and female naked back; shirtless children playing in river; man and woman implied naked under covers after sex; naked male rear. |
| Other | There is a main theme of death by disease in this film. People are shown in various stages of cholera -- suffering, crying out in pain and vomiting is shown; man shown laying dead in street his body ravaged from the disease; dead bodies are transported and buried in makeshift graves; a corpse's hand is seen poking out of a grave. |