Not recommended under 15 due to adult themes and sexual references
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Children under 15 | Not recommended due to adult themes and sexual references |
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: | To Rome with Love |
Classification: | M |
Consumer advice lines: | Infrequent coarse language and sexual references |
Length: | 112 minutes |
This review of the movie contains the following information:
Set in the ‘eternal city’ of Rome, this film tells the stories of many different characters whose paths cross. They include a young American tourist, a young couple on their honeymoon, an ordinary person who wakes up one day to find himself a celebrity, a bashful opera singer and a young architect and his insecure partner. The romantic misadventures that follow are both funny and poignant.
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.
Adult relationships
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 a little violence in this movie including:
Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.
Nothing apart from scenes mentioned above under ‘Use of violence’
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.
Nothing apart from scenes mentioned above under ‘Use of violence’
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.
Nothing of concern
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.
Nothing of concern
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:
To Rome with Love is a romantic comedy, made in typical Woody Allen style, that is aimed at older teens and adults. Rome is a beautiful background for a movie and the cinematography shows it in its best light, revealing why it is such a popular tourist destination. The film is not recommended for under 15s. It lacks interest for younger viewers and contains sexual references and adult themes.
The main messages from this movie include the fickle nature of fame and today’s obsession with celebrating the very ordinary and mundane things of life.
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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