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Children under 13 | Not recommended due to themes and coarse language |
Children 13-15 | Parental guidance recommended due to themes |
This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.
Name of movie: | He’s Just Not That Into You |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Infrequent coarse language and sexual references |
Length: | 129 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Gigi (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a young woman who is unlucky in love and is having trouble meeting the right man. She tells her woes to barman, Alex (Justin Long), who enlightens her as to what messages men are really sending out. Gigi also confides in work mate Janine (Jennifer Connelly) who appears to be happily married to Ben (Bradley Cooper). Ben, however, has fallen in love with the seductive Anna (Scarlett Johansson). The story continues to become more enmeshed with a number of interconnecting relationships which challenge the ideals of marriage and fidelity and the predictability of human behaviour.
Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.
Relationships; marriage and divorce.
Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.
Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.
There is violence in this movie including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
Apart from the scenes above, there are no scenes likely to be of concern.
Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.
Apart from the scenes above, there are no scenes likely to be of concern.
Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.
Nothing of concern
Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.
Nothing of concern
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
He’s Just Not That Into You is a romantic comedy, with an excellent cast, about relationships and the common mistakes that people make.
The main messages from this movie are about realising what is important in making a relationship work and whether happiness can only be found in love.
This movie could also give parents the opportunity to discuss with their children attitudes and behaviours, and their real-life consequences, such as.
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