What is The Young Pope about?
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
The Young Pope (2016)
A young, American pope navigates the Vatican's dark power struggles with cerebral, darkly-comic, and surreal flair.
Campy, with dark satire. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Max.
The Young Pope parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, and some violence, about what a TV-MA should carry.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Created byPaolo Sorrentino
StarringJude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando, Javier Cámara, Scott Shepherd, Cécile de France
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