Malibu High (1979) - Parents Guide Movie Rating

MPA: R BBFC: 18 Maturity Rating 18+

Sex & Nudity

mild

Kim (Jill Lansing) gets out of bed, wearing nothing. We see her bared breasts, flank and hip. In many other scenes, we see her wearing only a bathrobe and panties, or just the panties. A pimp offers to employ Kim and her friend, and makes several crude comments. Several times, Kim wears a miniskirt and brief top to high school. A pimp is shown repeatedly taking cash from men, whereupon the men climb into his van with a young woman in his employ. A young couple make out, topless, on a rug in her parents' house. At no point in this movie do we see fully-exposed buttocks, and we never see a character's pubic area. Full nudity is implied in some scenes, but camera work or some other bit of concealment hides it from the camera's view. Kim attempts to seduce two of her teachers at school. In a later scene, one of these teachers, Mr Donaldson, played by John Grant, meets Kim at a secluded location, where Kim removes her top, exposing her bare breasts. They end up wearing nothing but panties/briefs. During the scene, the teacher pushes Kim's panties partway down, revealing the tops of her buttocks. Kim later enters the pimp's employ. After agreeing on the profit split, the pimp insists on "Trying out the action." They go into the back of the van the pimp does business out of and remove their tops, revealing their bared chests. Kim leaves the employ of the first pimp for a higher-end one. We later see them making love in a bed, apparently both nude, though their lower bodies are covered by a blanket.

Violence & Gore

mild

A woman punches another in the face, giving her a bloody nose. In a few scenes, a woman gets slapped. A woman kills a few people with a pistol in several scenes. The scenes vary from no blood shown to quite a lot. She is shot to death by the police in the final scene. We see little blood. A woman steals an old man's heart pills, then gives him a jolt of excitement by stripping to her panties. He begs her to get his pills, but he dies of a heart attack, being unable to find them.

Profanity

severe

There is quite a bit of crude language in the film. There are several instances each of most of the typical profanities from "fuck" on down the scale, including profanations offensive to Christians. There's a few scenes where a middle finger is shown.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

moderate

Kim (Jill Lansing), a high-schooler, smokes cigarettes in about 5 scenes, several of which are at home in front of her mother. Two young women buy marijuana from a pimp. We later see Kim taking hits from a bong. A young girl opens a door to see her father hanging by the neck, dead. He has committed suicide. This was stated earlier in the movie during an argument between this same young woman and her mother. We only see his body from the hips down and her horrified reaction to the scene. A prostitute is handled roughly by her customer, against her will. She struggles and refuses to cooperate. She defends herself by stabbing him with an icepick. We see a bit of blood on his shirt around the wound. He apparently dies. A group of young people at a table in a nightclub stiffen their drinks from a smuggled-in flask. They appear to be under-age. Other people in the club are drinking alcohol openly. A woman dips a fingertip into some cocaine and snorts it.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

severe