Here's a quick look at the content found in this PG-13 rated musical. Various sexual double entendres are used during a scene where a woman, a renowned courtesan, mistakes a man for another she's supposed to seduce and the benign comments he makes as being sexually related. That leads to some groping, aroused sexual sounds and talk of making love, but they're interrupted before anything else happens.
That couple eventually becomes an item and they apparently fool around sexually, as we see them passionately kissing and then in a partially nude embrace (sheets cover their lower halves). Other courtesans and/or cancan dancers are seen in revealing clothing and occasionally lift up their dresses to show their panty-covered crotches. A song (both performed and recited as straight lines of dialogue) includes lines from Madonna's "Like A Virgin" with some sexually related lyrics.
Violence consists of an attempted rape, several punches and a henchman trying to shoot the male protagonist. Some of those scenes may tense or unsettling to some viewers, and various characters involved with them and others have bad attitudes. Various characters drink (including some who hallucinate after drinking absinthe), some smoke, and one is dying from consumption (tuberculosis) and occasionally coughs up a little blood.
If you're still concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone in your home who may want to see it, we suggest that you take a closer look at our detailed content listings for more specific information about what's present and/or occurs in it.
For those concerned with bright flashes of light on the screen, some of that occurs late in the film during a thunderstorm.