Parents Guide for
The Abyss (1989) More at IMDbPro »

During a scene showing CPR and shock paddles, one of the women has her shirt ripped off revealing a glimpse of her breasts including nipples. The camera does not linger on her breasts, and the entire time, she is surrounded by other people, so someone not paying very close attention is likely to miss it. There are hazy pictures of revealing women on a bathroom door. No sexual situations.

The film depicts a brutal, though not bloody, fight between 3 men involving strangulation, a knife and a gun. At another point, we are shown dead, though not rotting, corpses in a sunken submarine. There is also a violent fight between two mini-subs that involves much crashing and destruction of equipment.

1 "F" word, more than 12 "B**th" and Sh*t quite often.

Frequent use of sh*t and b*tch words by characters under tense situations.

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This film features many scenes involving the claustrophobic conditions involved in undersea diving and submarines. In the opening, we watch as a submarine filled with navy men gets flooded and sinks. In one of the film's most intense scenes, a woman decides to let herself "die" of drowning hoping that she will later be revived. In another scene a man gets killed when his submarine implodes due to water pressure, we are shown his frightened face as he realizes what his fate is.