Inside Out

Is Inside Out right for your family?

Movie 2015 95 min Analyzed with methodology v1.1.0 — can be updated

When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.

What's inside

  • ViolenceAbsent · 0
  • Sexual contentAbsent · 0
  • Romance & relationshipsAbsent · 0
  • Religion & spiritualityAbsent · 0
  • Family themesSignificant · 61
    Why this score?
    • 0:00–90:00An 11-year-old girl relocates with her parents from Minnesota to San Francisco, requiring adjustment to a new home and separation from her previous community.clear

    Sample of identified scenes. Neutral descriptions, written by Zelari.

  • Political & social messagingSignificant · 61
    Why this score?
    • 0:00–90:00The film presents a narrative about emotional processing and validates sadness as a necessary and healthy component of psychological functioning alongside other emotions.clear

    Sample of identified scenes. Neutral descriptions, written by Zelari.

  • Heavy emotional contentSignificant · 63
    Why this score?
    • 0:00–90:00A child experiences distress and difficulty coping with the major life transition of moving to a new city, separated from her established social connections and familiar environment.clear
    • 45:00–90:00Two emotional characters become separated from their group while holding essential memories, creating a tense scenario where the protagonist's psychological stability deteriorates as her personality structure progressively destabilizes.clear
    • 60:00–90:00The remaining emotional characters experience alarm and distress as they observe the protagonist's internal systems breaking down without the stabilizing presence of a key emotion.mild

    Sample of identified scenes. Neutral descriptions, written by Zelari.

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Where themes appear

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Violence
Sexual content
Romance & relationships
Religion & spirituality
Family themes
Political & social messaging
Heavy emotional content

Approximate position of each scene across the runtime.

Representation (informational)

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  • Female protagonism: Present
  • Cast diversity
  • LGBTQ characters present

Scores measure theme presence (0–100) — they never say whether content is good or bad. Different families have different thresholds.