Under 8s may be bored
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Children under 8 | Children under 8 my be bored by this film |
Children over the age of 8 | Children over 8 should be fine to watch this film |
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: | Spellbound |
Classification: | G |
Consumer advice lines: | None |
Length: | 97 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
The Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee is an annual event which has been held in America since 1925. Spellbound documents the background of eight of the participants in the 1999 event and their progress to the national event. In doing so it provides a snapshot of the diversity of culture in present day America.
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 no violence in this movie.
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
There is nothing scary in this movie.
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.
There is nothing scary in this movie.
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.
There is nothing scary in this movie.
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.
There is nothing scary in this movie.
There are no sexual references.
There is no nudity or sexual activity.
There is no use of substances.
There is no coarse language.
There is not really one take home message in this movie but there are several comments made by different people that are worth taking note of including:
Values that parents may wish to encourage include:
Values that parents may wish to discourage include:
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