What age is Relay appropriate for?

Rated R in the US. 17, alone or with a parent; 12 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Relay not recommended under 17?

What's in it: the official rating, first; a woman threatened for what she knows; cigarettes, whisky and some swearing. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Relay: what age is it for? 17, alone or with a parent

From 17, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2025 · 1 h 52 · action, drama, thriller

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The trailer

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The official US rating is R, and we never go below it. Alone from 17, and not before, even with an adult.

Official US rating: R. In France, zinema would say 12.

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What it's about

A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.

Why 17

The official rating, firstRated R in the US (restricted, under 17 requires an accompanying parent). zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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A woman threatened for what she knowsA scientist holds a report that incriminates her former employer, and men follow her, threaten her, enter her home; a hundred shots of guns, fights, a few gunshots. The film is a thriller of intimidation more than action.
Cigarettes, whisky and some swearingSixty shots of cigarettes, drinks in every negotiation scene, some twenty swear words.

What the movie brings

What a whistleblower is, and what it costs: a civics lesson in the shape of a thriller.
An anonymous go-between who helps without showing himself, and the question of what you owe a stranger.
Tension without blood, where fear comes from threats more than from guns.

Watching it together

Before

Say that the film frightens by what it suggests; there is almost nothing to see, everything to understand.

After

at 17 and up

The scientist is afraid to speak: what decides her, and would you have spoken?

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For the same age, on zinema

Drive – The Pretenders 17
Once Upon a Time 12, 11 with a parent
La Bataille de Gaulle : J’écris ton nom 13, 12 with a parent
Matchbox the Movie 13

The latest guides

A zinema reading from September 19, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made