What is Malcolm in the Middle about?
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
A gifted teen navigates his chaotic, dimwitted family in a brisk, satirically wholesome comedy.
Satirical and earnest, with dry wit. A comfort watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Malcolm in the Middle parents guide
For a TV-PG, this one goes further: some innuendo or implied sex. Beyond that, mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 10. Rated TV-PG.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byLinwood Boomer
StarringFrankie Muniz, Jane Kaczmarek, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield, Erik Per Sullivan, Christopher Masterson
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