Not suitable under 6; parental guidance to 12 (themes, lacks interest for young children)
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Children under 6 | Not suitable due to themes. |
Children aged 7–12 | Parental guidance recommended due to themes and lack of interest for younger children. |
Children aged 13 and over | Ok for this age group. |
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: | Ladies in Black |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild coarse language |
Length: | 109 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
In the summer of 1959 Lisa (Angourie Rice), a bookish school girl, takes a summer job in Sydney’s renowned department store Goode’s. At first she doesn’t fit in with Patty (Alison McGirr) and Fay (Rachel Taylor), the worldly women with whom she works, but her sweetness and charm soon win them over. When she is taken under the wing of Magda (Julia Ormond), a European supervisor in the designer dress department and a connoisseur of elegant fashions, her world begins to change in ways she could never have imagined.
Lisa in turn begins to influence those around her. Her open-mindedness allows her to navigate other cultures and appreciate the differences she encounters. Through Lisa’s influence and Magda’s connections, Fay is finally able to meet Rudi (Ryan Corr) the man of her dreams.
Through Lisa’s hard work and persistence her father (Shane Jacobson) finally begins to see that women have as much right to an education as men. Little by little barriers are broken down and the world begins to change for the “ladies in black” as they, in their own ways, influence the future of this country.
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.
Marital estrangement and miscommunication; Cultural stereotyping; Gender inequality.
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 some violence in this movie, including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
Nothing further noted.
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.
Nothing further noted.
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 further noted.
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 are some coarse language and insults in this movie, including:
Ladies in Black is a comedy drama based on the bestselling novel by Madeleine Saint John. It will appeal to mature audiences and gives an accurate, and often humorous, glimpse into female life in Sydney during the 1950’s.
The main messages from this movie are that people are really the same regardless of where they are from and that ‘a clever girl is the most wonderful thing in creation’.
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
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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