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Film version of Frank McCourt's critically acclaimed
and best-selling memoir of growing up in poverty in 1940s Ireland. With Emily Watson,
Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge and Shane Murray-Corcoran. [2:25]
SEX/NUDITY 6 - Several instances of sexual innuendo (including references to
masturbation) and a couple of kisses. A boy undresses (we see his bare backside) and a
girl appears to be pulling him to the couch by his penis (we see her hand near his groin);
she removes her shirt (her undershirt is still on), lies on top of him and kisses him
passionately (it's implied that they have intercourse, but we don't see
anything). We hear a bed squeaking, implying that a couple is having intercourse. We see
the bare buttocks of four masturbating boys. A boy gives another boy an uninformed,
non-graphic description of a woman's body. A shirtless boy holds a scantily clad
girl. A boy spies on several nude women (we see their bare breasts and see one
woman's bare backside). We see a couple of naked boy toddlers bathing and trying to
be dressed (a little boy also "moons" them during this scene); we also see a
boy's bare buttocks briefly.
VIOLENCE/GORE 5 - Three children die (we see two of their bluish-colored
faces), two other people die and a boy discovers a dead body in a chair. A boy lies on the
ground and pretends to have a seizure. A boy pushes another, a man slaps a boy's bare
feet, a man slaps a boy's hand, several boys are slapped in the back of the head, a
woman hits a boy several times, a boy slaps a woman, a man throws food at a woman, a man
grabs a boy and punches him several times (he gets a bloody nose and a swollen cheek) and
boys scuffle and punch each other (a teacher drags them away and we later see him hitting
their palms with a paddle). A boy falls off his bike and gets a bloody nose and some
bloody cuts on his face. A drunken man stumbles into the street and is knocked down by a
carriage. Some children wake up screaming and slapping their arms because they're
being bitten by fleas. A boy falls off a pipe that he climbed. We see film clips of a man
being shot at and a man holding a dagger to a woman's belly. A boy passes out and we
see him recovering in a hospital after an apparent blood transfusion. A boy's eyes
are extremely red and infected in several scenes; also, we see a man with a black eye. We
see several people vomiting; also, a boy announces he's been defecating in a grassy
area (his pants are down to his ankles), a man tells a story about bottling flatulence, we
hear a man pass gas, we see (and hear) several men urinating and we see a few chamber pots
being emptied onto the street. A man removes and eats the eye from a sheep-head roast.
PROFANITY 6 - About 8 F-words, lots of anatomical references, many
scatological references, several mild obscenities and some insults. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Ireland, poverty, discrimination, unemployment, death of
loved ones, discovering one's sexuality, alcoholism, Catholicism, theft.
MESSAGE - You can survive and overcome poverty and a miserable childhood.
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