Not suitable under 10; not recommended 10-13; parental guidance recommended 13-15 (Violent and disturbing scenes)
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Children under 10 | Not suitable due to violent and disturbing scenes. The film also lacks interest for this age group. |
Children aged 10-13 | Not recommended due to violent and disturbing scenes |
Children 13-15 | Parental guidance recommended due to violent and disturbing scenes |
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: | Iron Lady, The |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Mature themes and violence |
Length: | 105 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
The Iron Lady is a biography of Margaret Thatcher; Britain’s longest reining Prime Minister (from 1979 to 1990) and the first female Prime Minister in the western world.
Meryl Streep plays the adult Margaret Thatcher with Jim Broadbent as her husband, Dennis. The movie features Margaret Thatcher looking back on her life in old age. Snippets are shown of her youth and her political years from the perspective of her older self, showing her unapologetic push to rise in the political ranks and her controversial reign.
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; illness and old age; politics; terrorism
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.
Children in this age group are likely to be disturbed by the violent scenes described above
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.
Children in this age group are likely to be disturbed by the violent scenes described above
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.
Children in this age group are likely to be disturbed by the violent scenes described above
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.
Younger children in this age group may also be disturbed by some of the violent scenes described above
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 is some coarse mild language in this movie, including:
The Iron Lady is a movie showing the rise of Margaret Thatcher; an ambitious woman rising through the ranks in a male dominated profession. Aggressive conflict scenes of both verbal and physical violence are balanced by more sensitive scenes of an older woman reflecting on her life.
The main message from this movie is:
Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:
Parents may also wish to discuss a number of issues raised by the film, including:
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