War Horse (2011)

146 min · Drama

USPG-13

47 MILD

ScoutScore

A few flagged moments to know about.

War Horse scores 47 on the ScoutScore, which is Mild. A few flagged moments to know about. 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 violence and action.

Scary and dark	5%
Violence and action	78%
Themes	14%
Sexual content	none flagged
Substances	none flagged
Language	3%
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 Deity exclamations - scattered through auction scene
Heads up Auction auctioneer banter
Heads up Ted's auction insults
Caution Ted tries to force Joey into harness and reaches for a gun
Heads up Joey panics and bolts dragging Albert
Caution Cavalry charge into German encampment - machine guns kill riders
Heads up German brothers captured and executed
Heads up Emilie confronts grandfather about her parents' deaths
Heads up German soldiers take Joey and Topthorn from Emilie
Heads up Horse shot dead while pulling artillery
Caution Battle of the Somme - trench assault, gas attack, Andrew killed
Caution Topthorn collapses and dies from exhaustion
Caution Joey trapped in barbed wire in no man's land
Heads up Doctor orders Joey to be shot - gun cocked at injured horse
Heads up Post-war auction - French butcher bids to slaughter Joey

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

PG-13

Talk about it after

“Albert makes a solemn promise to find Joey no matter where the war takes him, and the film follows both of them through years of separation and danger. What do you think kept Albert going when finding Joey must have seemed impossible?”

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Common questions

Is War Horse okay for kids?

War Horse scores 47 on FilmScout's ScoutScore, which places it in the Mild tier. A few flagged moments to know about. FilmScout has mapped 15 flagged scenes in it, covering action, dark imagery, 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 War Horse?

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

What is War Horse rated?

War Horse is rated PG-13 in the United States.

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