There is talk of violence, including a young boy and his mother talking about how he will need to get a gun one day when he moves back to Chicago! Plus, there are gun shots heard in Chicago, and no one reacts to them.

The adult daughter in the film has a major drinking problem when living in Chicago, but not when she goes down south. In one Chicago scene, she is in a drug house and it is a disturbing, dirty place with drunks and druggies.

There is a scene where the mother finds her adult daughter in a dirty drug house, with drunks and druggies galore. There is only silence in the scene, however.