The advice viewing was carried out by a team of two Compliance Managers who, using the BBFC's Classification Guidelines and citing precedents, determined that the film was likely to receive a 15 rating for the sustained and intense threat throughout. In the case of A Quiet Place, the request for a 12A category which would have approximated the film's PG-13 rating in the US by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for 'terror and some bloody images'. An advice viewing informs industry customers of the age rating a work is likely to receive and makes recommendations for any realistic changes that may be required in order for a work to achieve the preferred rating. In March 2017, the film came to the BBFC for an advice viewing, which is a service provided by the BBFC as a stage prior to formal classification. Having already endured one tragedy, the family's precarious survival depends on constant, silent vigilance. As a consequence, the family must go about their lives in near total silence, communicating only in sign language at which they are all adept due to their eldest child being profoundly deaf. Earth has been invaded by deadly alien creatures which are blind but possess hyper-sensitive hearing, enabling them to pick up on the slightest noise.
A Quiet Place is a US drama/horror film from actor-director John Krasinski who also stars with his real-life wife, Emily Blunt, as a married couple with children living in extraordinary circumstances.