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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

141 min · Fantasy

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52 BOLD

ScoutScore

Heads up before you watch. Notable content.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban scores 52 on the ScoutScore, which is Bold. Heads up before you watch. Notable content. FilmScout maps 15 flagged scenes and 5 marked caution.

A ScoutScore is a living number. We re-check movies against the source and raise or lower it when we find something the first pass missed, so a score you see today can differ from one you saw last month.

What FilmScout flagged

Heads up	10
Caution	5

Content map

How the scenes we flagged in this movie divide up by kind. These are shares of what was flagged, not a level, and not a promise about anything we did not flag: a movie with very little flagged content can still be 80% one kind.

Flagged mostly for scary and dark.

Scary and dark	58%
Violence and action	18%
Themes	24%
Sexual content	none flagged
Substances	none flagged
Language	none flagged
All flagged content	100%

Direction is the kind of content flagged. Reach is the ScoutScore, which is how much there is: green at the centre, yellow, orange, then red at the dotted line, which is 100. The scale has no ceiling, so a shape can cross it.

Scenes FilmScout flagged

Heads up Aunt Marge insults Harry's parents and inflates
Heads up Casual deity exclamations
Caution Dementor boards the Hogwarts Express
Heads up Casual deity exclamations
Heads up Professor Trelawney reveals the Grim
Heads up Buckbeak attacks Malfoy
Caution Dementors attack Harry during Quidditch match
Heads up Mudblood slur used against Hermione
Heads up Harry learns Sirius Black is his godfather and a murderer
Heads up Trelawney delivers a death prophecy in a trance

Where each one lands in the runtime, and alerts that arrive before it does, are in the app.

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Age ratings by country

AU	PG
CA	PG
GB	PG
US	PG

Talk about it after

“Professor Lupin tells Harry that the dementors affect him so strongly because he has faced real horrors, and that this is not a weakness. What do you think it means to be brave when something genuinely frightening is part of your own past?”

This guide tells you before. The app tells you during.

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Common questions

Is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban okay for kids?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban scores 52 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Bold tier. Heads up before you watch. Notable content. FilmScout has mapped 15 flagged scenes in it, covering dark imagery, theme, profanity (mild). The right answer depends on your child, which is why FilmScout shows you the scenes instead of giving a verdict.

What is the ScoutScore for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

52, which is the Bold tier. The ScoutScore is driven by the intensity of a movie's heaviest moments rather than how many it has.

What is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban rated?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is rated PG in the United States. Ratings differ by country: AU PG, CA PG, GB PG, US PG. A letter rating stamps a whole movie at once, so FilmScout scores it scene by scene instead.

Is it OK for your kid? The age-by-age answer

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Each flagged moment with its place in the runtime, plus live alerts that follow along while you watch.

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