Parents guide

A woman enters Elvis's hotel room and there is a sensual scene of him disrobing her down to her underwear and them making out. Sex is clearly implied.

An adolescent Elvis and his friends watch a man and woman performing a sensual dance.

Priscilla walks around the bedroom in a short nightie. Her underwear is very briefly shown.

Teen girls and adult women throw their underwear on the stage and at Elvis in multiple scenes. He usually picks them up and at one point he puts them on his head.

References to Elvis's infidelity, several makeout scenes, and other mild sexual references. Elvis's dance moves are seen as lewd and sexual by the media, and his dancing is shown to get many women excited.

Elvis and Priscilla kiss in her bedroom.

Elvis shoots his TVs out with his firearms.

Elvis himself receives several death threats during performances.

The Colnel has a heart attack at the beginning of the film he is shown collapsed on the floor of his office and is rushed to a hospital by an ambulance.

There is one brief use of the f-word during a rage at a concert. Other uses are: "damn," "hell," "shit," "son of a bitch," "piss," and "whore." One use of "bastard."

Slurs matching the time period of the film are used 5 times.

Goddamnit/Goddamn is used 19 times.

1 use of "fuck", 3 uses of "shit", and 18 uses of "goddamn", 5 uses of "hell", 3 uses of "son of a bitch", 1 use of "assholes", 3 uses of "damn", 1 use of "bastard".

Colonel Parker is almost always seen smoking a cigar.

Many supporting characters smoke cigarettes frequently. Vernon is nearly always shown smoking a cigarette. Elvis smokes cigarillos twice near the end of the movie.

Gladys is shown to have a problem with alcohol, which it says contributed to her death.

Elvis' drug use is focused on in a few scenes, beginning with when a band member gives him a pill. Others include Dr. Nick giving him an injection.

One shot of someone smoking a pipe at a carnival.

An IV bag with morphine is seen in a hospital room.

There is never anything too disturbing or frightening, but there are many emotional and sad scenes.

During one of Elvis' performances a riot begins and a police officer beats a man in the rear distance.

Elvis rages at Las Vegas might shock viewers over Colonel's Firing

Elvis raises his voice angerly in a few scenes and is shown kicking and throwing things in a fit of anger after he finds out he is in debt.

The ending is pretty emotional and depressing.