Not recommended under 8, PG to 13 (Lacks interest for young children, Sexual activity, Coarse language)
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Children under 8 | Not recommended due to lack of interest, sexual activity and coarse language |
Children aged 8-13 | Lacks interest for younger children in this group. Parental Guidance recommended due to sexual activity and coarse language |
Children over the age of 13 | 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: | Proposal, The |
Classification: | PG |
Consumer advice lines: | Mild coarse language and sexual |
Length: | 107 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is a high powered executive with a publishing firm. She has an executive assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) whom she bullies and intimidates. Andrew is desperate to be an editor and puts up with all of her behaviour so that he can achieve his dream.
Margaret finds that because she is not a US citizen and has travelled without a visa, she is now going to be deported. Her solution is to ‘marry’ Andrew. Suddenly the boot is on the other foot. Margaret has to agree to conditions which are set by Andrew so that he will go through with the wedding. She also has to spend the weekend with his family in Alaska and attend his Grandmother’s 90th birthday.
The trip has surprising results where both Andrew and Margaret learn something about themselves and each other.
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.
Work place bullying; Loss of a parent
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 of concern
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
Sandra talks briefly about losing her parents at 16. Some children may be disturbed by this.
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.
Some children in this age group may also be disturbed by the idea of Sandra losing her parents at 16.
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.
Some children in this age group may also be disturbed by the idea of Sandra losing her parents at 16.
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:
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 is some coarse language in this movie, including:
‘shit’, ‘Jesus,’ ‘boobs’ ‘bitch’, ‘balls’
The Proposal is a romantic comedy focusing on the developing relationship between two people who initially are antagonistic towards each other.
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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