A teenage girl is spanked repeatedly by a man as a punishment. The girl screams in pain, and the man is stopped after several swats.

A teenage girl wakes up and a strange man is watching her. He tells her, as part of a conversation, that he thought about kissing her.

A man says that he's "kissed a woman." Not graphic.

The violence is pretty infrequent, however when it occurs it can be somewhat harsh.

In a fairly brutal and violent scene a man suddenly cuts off another man's fingers, shown briefly, and then he stabs him in the stomach. The attacker is shot in the head and blood splatters on the wall.

Early in the film, three people confess their last words, have bags placed over their heads, and are hanged. Lasts about a minute, with the hanging about 5 seconds.

A discussion includes a brief mention of women and children massacred during the Civil War.

Rooster offers to flay the soles of her father's killer's feet.

LaBoeuf is bound by a lasso, and dragged around, which causes him to bite his tongue. Rooster reaches into his mouth, with blood oozing from the sides.

Several people are killed. Bullet holes are sometimes visible.

Mattie and Rooster find a body hung in a tree being gnawed on by a vulture. The body is cut down and is shown on the ground.

LaBoeuf pushes Mattie down and paddles her by way of punishment, first with a bare hand and then with a nearby switch. He doesn't stop until Rooster points a gun at him.

Horses get shot during a battle. There's talk of women and children massacred during the Civil War. Rooster promises Mattie that he'll flay the soles of her father's killer's feet if it will make her feel better. LaBoeuf is bound by a lasso, and dragged around, which causes him to bite his tongue. We see Rooster reaching in to his mouth, with blood oozing from the sides (the scene is dark, so some of the blood in hard to see)

'H*ll' is said once as profanity.

'Godd*mn' is said five times

'B*stard' is said once.

'Son of a b*tch' is said three times.

LaBoeuf smokes a pipe.

Mattie rolls a cigarette for Rooster on a couple of occasions. He is also seen smoking cigarettes in a few other scenes.

Rooster drinks alcohol to excess in several scenes.

A man smokes an opium pipe.

The hanging scene is disturbing.

The violence throughout is presented to be realistic.

The main characters find themselves in danger several times.

A corpse is seen hanging in a forest.

A man is suddenly attacked with a knife.