• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 8, age appropriate for kids over 10; suggested age 10.

• Is it any good?

  3.0

• Common Sense says

  Sci-fi weepy romance about modern Rip Van Winkle.

Why We Rated This for Ages 10 and Up

The good stuff

• Messages:

  Though boys Nat and Felix seem to disobey every order they hear (usually things turn out right in the end), the moral core of the movie seems to be Dan McCormick, who is brave, noble, and valiant and loyal to the love of his life, even after a 60-year gap. He may even be too good to be true, displaying no Jim Crow-era bigotry or intolerance in the modern world in which he's thrust.

What to watch out for

• Violence:

  A threat of domestic violence. A fistfight that looks like an old-style boxing-match. A character is hit by a car (impact not shown), and another one falls off a roof.
• Sex:

  A bare-butt shot of Mel Gibson's character as an experimental subject. Brief glimpse of Jamie Lee Curtis in a bra.
• Language:

  "Crap" is the worst it gets.
• Consumerism:

  A mild plug for the music of Bessie Smith.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Smoking, beer drinking, talk of alcoholism.

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