With the highly anticipated Oscars awards ceremony coming this month, movie-buffs all over the world are curious to see whether their favourites will receive just a nomination, or scoop up a much-coveted trophy.
However, while there are a plethora of highly-sought after nomination categories for our onscreen heroes to battle it out for, interestingly, there isn’t one for the most awkward movies to watch with your family…
Eager to help people avoid an awkward family night in 2024, experts have compared various “awks” factors, such as the number of scenes featuring sex and nudity, the number of people who rated those scenes as ‘severe’ and the number of swear words used, in order to reveal the most awkward movie to watch with family.
Top 10 most awkward movies to watch with your family
|
Rank |
Movie |
Scenes Featuring Sex and Nudity |
No. of People Who Rated Sex and Nudity “Severe” |
Number of Swear Words |
Awkwardness Score (/10) |
|
1 |
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) |
15 |
2,869 |
687 |
9.5 |
|
2= |
Don Jon (2013) |
11 |
182 |
147 |
8.2 |
|
2= |
Magic Mike (2012) |
18 |
90 |
171 |
8.2 |
|
4 |
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) |
7 |
684 |
9 |
7.4 |
|
5 |
A Star is Born (2018) |
6 |
190 |
189 |
7.1 |
|
6 |
Saltburn (2023) |
4 |
659 |
101 |
7.0 |
|
7 |
Through My Window (2022) |
7 |
166 |
37 |
6.9 |
|
8 |
Deadpool (2016) |
2 |
869 |
144 |
6.8 |
|
9 |
Fair Play (2023) |
5 |
67 |
175 |
6.6 |
|
10 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
3 |
166 |
162 |
5.9 |
Despite the many controversial scenes from 2023’s Saltburn causing much debate at the end of last year, the film, starring Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi, didn’t even claim a place within the top five, with the award for the most awkward movie to watch with your family going to The Wolf of Wall Street, with an overall awkwardness score of 9.5/10.
A whopping 2,869 people rated the sex and nudity scenes throughout the movie as ‘severe’, equating to 91% of the overall reviews on IMDb, proving that the movie is definitely one to avoid on family film night. It also had the highest number of swear words used out of all movies in the study, 687.
In joint second place, with a total awkwardness score of 8.2/10, are the movies Don Jon and Magic Mike. While the latter has seven more scenes featuring sex and nudity, those were rated as being ‘severe’ by just 90 people, amounting to 54% of the people who left a review on IMDb. Interestingly, twice as many people gave Don Jon’s 11 sex and nudity scenes that same rating, which goes to show that this may be one to avoid at your next family movie night!
Having been awarded a total score of 7.4/10, fourth place goes to the book to movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. This rather raunchy movie’s seven scenes featuring sex and nudity were rated as ‘severe’ by 77% of the viewers who left a review on IMDb. In terms of swear words, though, the movie had the lowest count out of all movies examined, only nine.
And rounding up the top five, with an awkwardness score of 7.1/10, is the star-studded movie A Star is Born (2018). A total of 189 swear words were used throughout the 2 hours and 15 minutes movie duration. And its six sex and nudity scenes earned a ‘severe’ rating from a total of 190 people (494 less than Fifty Shades of Grey), which might make a family watch quite uncomfortable. lease find the complete dataset of all 15 movies analysed .
