The Princess Bride
Movie • 1987 • Adventure
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In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
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Abandonment
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Main characters DO say goodbye before parting ways for a long time
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Abuse
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Inigo's backstory involves a grown man killing his father and scarring his face with a sword.
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The main character's love interest threatens to hit her (almost does but restrains himself), and treats her condescendingly throughout.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Buttercup is lied to by Humperdinck, and told later that they are married despite her not having said "I do".
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Inigo kills the man who once injured him and killed his father when Inigo was a child.
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Is someone stalked?
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Characters are followed by another.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Mention of alcoholism.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Inigo Montoya is wasted in a scene or two
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Animal
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Are there spiders?
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Rodents of unusual size.
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Are there snakes?
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There are eels though..
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Are there sharks?
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No, but there are giant carnivorous eels that behave like the popular image of sharks.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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A grown man jumps down onto a horse, which staggers
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there is a fight involving ROUS's (rodents of unusual size) which doesn't end in the rats favour...
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Is there a dead animal?
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Westley kills a ROUS (Rat of Unusual Size)
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Assault
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Buttercup is forced to marry against her will, but nothing physical happens.
Humperdinck issues a veiled threat of consummating the marriage.
Humperdinck issues a veiled threat of consummating the marriage.
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Is someone drugged?
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Vicini is poisoned if that counts?
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Is someone held under water?
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It's more of a dunk than a hold under water. It's just to sober Inigo.
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The main love interest threatens to slap her but does not.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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When a main character gets kidnapped they gag him
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Bodily Harm
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Is someone tortured?
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A character is tortured to death, though resurrected later on.
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Is someone burned alive?
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One of the ROUS's (rodents of unusual size) gets lit on fire, but doesn't die from the fire
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Is there a hanging?
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There is talk about it - as a threat to the kidnappers.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Inigo gets slashed in the face with a sword. The wounds bleed.
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Is someone buried alive?
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There’s a scene where they fall into quicksand, but make their way out.
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Is there amputation?
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He doesn't go through with it, but at one point Inigo tells Fezzik to tear someone's arms off.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A character is choked to unconscious but he's fine in the end
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Someone is made to faint with a chokehold
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Is someone choked?
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A character is choked unconscious while being kidnapped; it's very brief, with her losing consciousness almost as soon as her attacker's hand is around her throat. Later, there is a wrestling match in which one character subdues the other with a choke hold; this goes on for much longer.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Several characters get run through in sword fights, and a character is hit by a thrown knife.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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When Westley is being tortured it looks a bit like a seizure.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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and there is a scene where people jump out of a second storey window, but everyone is safely caught (the comedic elements through the film make it a moment where some viewers might wonder if there's going be a comedic splat when they jump, but it doesn't happen)
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Various characters are rendered unconscious by methods including choke holds and being thumped on the head.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does a major character die?
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Yes, but it doesn't last, and he's alive and well at the end.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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No overdose but a character does die from drinking poison.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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you killed my father, prepare to die
one of the main characters father was murdered and he is seeking revenge
one of the main characters father was murdered and he is seeking revenge
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Does a family member die?
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Before the movie Inigo’s father is killed
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Does someone cheat?
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but mostly on technicalities that aren't anyone's fault, and the situations when they come up are resolved quickly
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Spoiler alert: The beginning of the movie is literally someone getting kidnapped
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Not really jumpscares, but surprises nonetheless. (Pretty much only with the ROUSes)
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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There’s some giant mushrooms in the fire swamp (only shown briefly and just in the background) that sort of resemble a morel mushroom (lots of holes)
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There are daggers, but razors did not exist in this time period
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Are there ghosts?
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Inigo tries to appeal to his dead father's spirit at one point, there is no evidence that the appeal succeeds other than a strange coincidence that might just have been random chance.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Part of the story involves a boat trip down a river and across a sea.
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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Buttercup and Wesley cough up sand after they get out of a lightning sand pit in the fire swamp, but there is no vomit and nothing is visual- I am severely emetophobic and the scene doesn't affect me at all, it really just sounds like coughing.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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There are scenes of law enforcement (the Brute Squad) bullying citizens, but this is depicted as villainous behaviour.
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Is there incarceration?
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A character is locked up in a torture chamber.
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Not quite electro-therapy, but akin to it.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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They go to a healer, but it's more of a shack than a hospital.
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Mental Health
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Suicide is threatened
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She is just about to when circumstances change
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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There are no confirmed autistic characters.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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She doesn't want to live with Humperdinck so badly.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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There is a scene where a character's dream is initially depicted as if it's actually happening, and only revealed as a dream when she wakes up at the end of it.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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some people get buried in quicksand, but it's not shot from their POV, and you know that they're going to come out of it safely within the next moment or so
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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No more than any other action movie from the '80s would have.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Someone calls another character “a son of a b***h in one singular instance
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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The movie uses a grandfather telling the story to his grandson as a framing device, and sometimes they interrupt the story to comment on it, but the audience is never addressed directly, so the fourth wall remains intact.
In the original book, the equivalent framing device is that Goldman, the writer, is talking to you, the reader, about his abridged "good parts version" of the story, so the fourth wall is being broken constantly.
In the original book, the equivalent framing device is that Goldman, the writer, is talking to you, the reader, about his abridged "good parts version" of the story, so the fourth wall is being broken constantly.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there fat jokes?
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A giant is made fun of for his size.
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everyone seems to be cis
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Fezzik is mocked by Vizzini for his "stupidity."
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Does an LGBT person die?
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no LGBT characters
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Is there hate speech?
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+1 on the misogyny comment, it's not really what I would call "hate speech" but Buttercup is treated as a commodity by most of the characters and Westley is downright harsh with her.
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There are no mentions of Jewish people.
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Does the black guy die first?
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no black characters
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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The proposed marriage between Humperdinck and Buttercup is an area of concern: it's not specified how large the age gap between the characters is, but he's clearly significantly older (in real life, the actors were 45 and 21). Neither is actually attracted to the other: he's picked her for political reasons, and she's only going along because he doesn't give her a choice. In any case, they don't end up getting married and Buttercup ends up with someone age-appropriate.
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Religious
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Are there demons or Hell?
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I’m pretty sure a character says Hell
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Sex
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Whaaaaaa??? I was happy when I found this site, but I’m beginning to think it’s become a joke to some... or maybe over taken by trolls?
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Is there sexual content?
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It's kissing, you wouldn't like it
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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No, but a male character cries after being tortured in a moment played for humor.
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Prince Humperdinck's elderly father is depicted as having trouble following what's happening around him, in a way that might be read as related to dementia.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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It's mentioned that Inigo was homeless
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
82 supporters
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Sword Fight - it's not overly bloody, and no gore.
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Does someone drown?
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There is a very drunk person being sobered up by putting his head in a barrel of water.
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