Not suitable under 8; parental guidance to 10 (themes, language). May lack interest for children and teens.
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Children under 8 | Not suitable due to themes and language. |
Children aged 8–10 | Parental guidance recommended due to themes. |
Children aged 11 and over | Ok for this age group, though may lack interest for children and teens. |
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: | My Sailor My Love |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild themes |
Length: | 102 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Dealing with the past trauma of a largely absent father and the guilt of losing her clinically depressed mother, Grace (Catherine Walker) struggles between balancing her marriage, her work as a nurse and her obligations to care for her ageing father Howard (James Cosmo), who still lives alone in his house by the sea. When Grace visits to find food rotting on the table and the kitchen in complete disarray, she hires Annie (Brid Brennan) as a housekeeper to come and help her father out. Annie, a widowed grandmother from town, is kindness itself and she is very understanding and accommodating as she does her best to make Howard’s home clean and cheerful. Howard, however, is less than thrilled with the new arrangement and eventually his rudeness causes Annie to leave. Almost immediately, the old sailor regrets what he has done and heads into town to make amends with Annie. A close friendship quickly ensues and before long Annie moves in, much to Grace’s horror. Despite their differences, Howard and Annie make plans to marry while Grace, whose own marriage is quickly crumbling, takes steps to persuade Annie otherwise. When tragedy strikes, Grace learns how much Annie really meant to her father and can only thank her for the light she brought to his life.
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.
Family breakdown and dysfunction; Jealousy; Abusive relationships; Mental illness, including clinical depression; Failing Health and Lack of control.
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.
There are some sexual references in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There is some coarse language in this movie, including:
My Sailor My Love is a later-in-life, romantic drama filmed and set in Ireland. While the film does not include a fast-paced plot, special effects or legendary love scenes, instead the characters are real, the acting believable and the cinematography lends itself to the barren starkness of this bittersweet tale. Likely to lack interest for most children and teens, the film is best suited to older audiences.
The main messages from this movie are to admit when you are wrong; to take chances; and to love with all your heart while you still have time.
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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