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Last Days

(2005, Rated R, Drama, Starring Michael Pitt, Asia Argento, Lukas Haas)

  • Is it age appropriate?

    About our ratings

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 16, age appropriate for kids over 99; suggested age 16.

  • Is it any good?

    3.0

  • Common Sense says

    Tale of a Cobain-like rock star isn't for kids.

updated 07.04.08

Why We Rated This iffy for Ages 16–18

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    Rock musicians and hangers-on are rude, do drugs, and have sex; one character kills himself in the end.

  • Violence :

    Suicide by shotgun implied at end, body seen (in photos that recall Cobain's death), but act is not.

  • Sex :

    Brief nudity, two girls dancing, two boys kissing in bed.

  • Language:

    Very little dialogue, but some use of curse words, including f-word.

  • Consumerism:

    Cocoa Rice Krispies, generic mac and cheese.

  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Characters drink, smoke, and take drugs, though the last occurs mostly off-screen, with effects (stumbling, slurring words) visible.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Last Days

Parents need to know that this movie focuses on a musician's depressed final days, and he shoots himself at the end, in a sequence featuring images recalling Kurt Cobain's suicide (based on widely circulated police and press photos). Characters use drugs, drink, smoke, and curse casually and frequently (including the "f--k"). The movie contains some sexual imagery and references (a girl in her underwear, two young men having sex, two girls dancing, a male character wearing a slip), and sexual slang. A young man urinates into a river (his back to the camera), carries a shotgun through his house, and passes out more than once. He also appears as a ghost, nude, emerging from and ascending from the corpse of his unhappy self.

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Families Can Talk About

  • Families can talk about this film's representation of depression and celebrity. While Blake is surely feeling isolated and despondent, his friends and associates are unable or unwilling to take his depression seriously. How is Blake's melancholy represented in allusive, even poetic, images? How does the film show his rejection of commercial interests, as embodied by other characters, like his manager, bandmates, or hangers-on?
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