• Director(s)

    Sean Foley

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    27/03/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Performance

  • Approx. running minutes

    130m

  • Cast

    Steve Coogan

Film

National Theatre Live: Dr. Strangelove

infrequent strong language

In this stage adaptation of the 1964 satirical comedy film, the world teeters on the edge of destruction when the Cold War superpowers clash over a rogue nuclear attack.…

In this stage adaptation of the 1964 satirical comedy film, the world teeters on the edge of destruction when the Cold War superpowers clash over a rogue nuclear attack.

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violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

drugs

suicide and self-harm

theme

  • Director(s)

    Sean Foley

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    27/03/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Performance

  • Approx. running minutes

    130m

  • Cast

    Steve Coogan

infrequent strong language
Classified Date:
17/03/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre
violence
Characters occasionally punch and shove one another in choreographed fight scenes. Soldiers shoot at one another and a man recalls being tortured during his time as a prisoner of war.
threat and horror
Throughout the play is the underlying and intensifying threat of nuclear war, presented with satirical humour. There are also scenes of gun threat and sequences in which a plane is at risk of crashing, causing panic among its crew. A man fears he has been targeted for assassination.
language
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') along with milder terms such as 'son of a bitch', 'dick', 'shit', 'ass', 'bollocks', 'bastard', 'bloody', 'God', 'damn' and 'hell'.
sex
Comedic references are made to 'bodily fluids'; sometimes these occur in an undetailed sexual context. Characters discuss breeding programmes to ensure the future of humanity.
discrimination
A mentally ill man is described using terms such as 'loony'. A man makes sexist remarks in a comedic scene.
drugs
Brief, undetailed verbal references are made to amphetamines.
suicide and self-harm
It is implied a man takes his own life off-screen. The actor playing him is later seen with a small amount of blood on his face.
theme
Oblique, undetailed references are made to the Holocaust.
alcohol and smoking
Characters smoke cigars and drink alcohol.
Classified Date:
10/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Theatre

  • Classified date

    17/03/2025

  • Language

    English