One scene shows a bed shaking and you hear a man grunting indicating a couple having sex. There is no nudity but it is heavily implied that the sex is not consensual.

Revealing outfits are worn a few times.

Some inappropriate references.

Sexual content includes implied sex, sexual references, and rape.

During one scene, Shug Avery and Albert (Mister) dance together and begin undressing each other. Scene is brief and no nudity is shown.

During Shug Avery's performance, couples on the dance floor dance in a sexual manner.

There is a lot of slapping across the face and intense, sudden, overall tame violence.

A beer bottle is smashed against a guys head.

References to/overt scenes of incest, domestic violence, rape, racist violence, and armed colonial violence in Africa.

Celie is hit across the face by Mister, hits the window, falls to the ground, and coughs up some blood.

"God," "hell," "damn," "ass," "hoe," and "shit" respectively.

A black women said "hell no" to white female for not letting black children to work with white people race, and a white male smacks across her face to watch her language.

"Horse shit" is said once by a black female that she say "sack of dead horse shit", and, of course, the famous quote "You're Black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman. You're nothing", with racist and sexist remake.

A few uses of "shit", "ass," "damn", "hell", "whore", and "hoe",

Lots of drinking and some smoking.

Some of the fighting, physically and verbally, can be intense and emotional.

Some scenes of racism that can be intense and upsetting.

Lots of intense and upsetting harassment.

A man fired a gun a few times.

This is quite a dark/disturbing as the story deals with serious topics, such as sexual abuse, incest, rape, domestic and intimate partner abuse, racism in the Jim Crow South, sexism, adultery, incarceration, and poverty.