There's absolutely no sex or romance, but there's some language, including a single 'f-k you,' plus 's-t,' 'bitch,' and 'a-hole.' Ultimately it's a crowd-pleasing action movie with a well-intentioned but slightly contradictory message involving both peace and the importance of armed defense. A young girl is frequently in danger and is almost killed on a couple of occasions (which ups the movie's intensity level), and the president seems dead.

There are a few hand-to-hand combat scenes and a tense hostage situation in which people (some in high levels of the administration) are executed or wounded. The first two posters for Sonys upcoming action-thriller White House Down showcase a peaceful, sunny day in Washington D.C., with several tourists taking photographs and enjoying their time in. Like Independence Day, which was also directed by Roland Emmerich, there's a lot of violence, but most of it is on a grand scale - explosions, helicopters/planes crashing, and deaths the audience doesn't see too up close. Find where to watch White House Down in New Zealand. Parents need to know that White House Down is a patriotic thriller in the vein of Olympus Has Fallen and Independence Day, in which the country is saved by one brave man with a gun - in this case Channing Tatum.

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