Not recommended under 12, PG to 15 (Violence, Themes, Coarse language)
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Children under 12 | Not recommended for children due to violence, distressing themes and course language. |
Children aged 12-15 | Parental guidance recommended due to violence, themes and coarse language |
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: | Son of Rambow |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild violence, themes and coarse language |
Length: | 95 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Son of Rambow is set in England in the 1980s and tells the story of an unlikely friendship. Will (Bill Milner), whose father died of an aneurysm, belongs to a strict Christian sect that forbids contact with outside influences such as television, music and friends outside the sect. In contrast Lee Carter (Will Poulter), who has been abandoned by his mother and father and left with his uncaring older brother, has an existence of excessive freedom.
The two boys find that they have more in common than expected as they join forces to create a home movie worthy of winning the BBC junior-filmmaker contest. Lee is armed with plenty of ambition and a video camera when he accidentally stumbles upon the prolific creative talents of Will and convinces him to screen test for his movie adventure. Will is easily enticed into Lee’s world of rebellion and freedom. When he accidentally views Lee’s pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood his imagination goes wild with the creative possibilities.
What follows is a comedic adventure as the boys’ imaginings, drawings and daydreams come to life through the story of Son of Rambow. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but, as popularity descends on them, they find their friendship and movie are put to the test.
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.
Child neglect, bullying
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 and accidental harm in this movie, including stunts which parents may be concerned that children may imitate. Violence includes:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
It is unlikely that children in this age group will understand that many of the humorous stunt scenes and violent attacks by scary characters exist only in Will’s imagination and as a part of the film they are making. Therefore they may find some of the images of fighting and killing scary
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.
It is unlikely that children in this age group will understand that many of the humorous stunt scenes and violent attacks by scary characters exist only in Will’s imagination and as a part of the film they are making. Therefore they may find some of the images of fighting and killing scary
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.
In addition to the above mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:
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.
Children in this age group are unlikely to be disturbed by anything in this film
The following products are displayed or used in this movie:
None of concern
There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:
There is some use of substances in this movie, including:
There are some rude gestures and coarse language in this movie, including:
Son of Rambow is a comedy about friendship and growing up. The main messages from this movie are the meaning of true friendship: loyalty, trust and forgiveness
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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