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Funny Face

(1957, Rated NR, Musical, Starring Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson)

  • Is it age appropriate?

    About our ratings

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 7, age appropriate for kids over 9; suggested age 9.

  • Is it any good?

    4.0

  • Common Sense says

    Bubbly, fashion-crazed Hepburn-Astaire musical.

Why We Rated This on for Ages 9 and Up

What to watch out for

  • Messages:

    Lightweight characterizations that aren't really affecting one way or another. Even when Maggie declares that they're all supposed to be heartless big-city cynics who don't believe in love, there's no real meanness in it. Still, Jo's search for self-improvement and philosophy is repeatedly mocked, and her French guru gets knocked off his pedestal.

  • Violence:

    Just one guy hit over the head with a vase.

  • Sex:

    Not an issue.

  • Language:

    Not an issue.

  • Consumerism:

    A built-in ad for clothing and dressing to the nines, though no real-life product labels are mentioned.

  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Social drinking, smoking in cafés.
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Funny Face

Parents need to know that the movie's high-fashion milieu, though satirized, does tend to be a consumerist plug for upscale women's clothing. Female characters are repeatedly objectified (all thin and gorgeous) and exhorted to dress and look their best. Being a pretty girl is equated with being rather stupid, and the heroine is chastised for trying to be more intellectual. Plus, there's a brief reference to "romantic" suicide in the context of the novel Anna Karenina.

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  • Families can talk about the attitudes. Would you call this film sexist? How has the fashion scene changed (or not changed?) since Funny Face was made? While the script's "empathicalism" is a made-up philosophy, you can talk about existentialism and Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, and other French star philosophers, right down to today's Bernard-Henri Levy (married to movie-actress bombshell) who commands much media attention.
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  1. Teen Reviewer Age 15
    ramalama_dingdon ...
    Lives in Tennessee
    I rate this title on for age 6 and give it 5.0

    Cute movie

    Anything with Audrey Hepburn is good to me :)

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  2. Teen Reviewer Age 16
    who3697cares
    Lives in Pennsylvania
    I rate this title on for age 8 and give it 5.0

    One of my favorite musicals

    It doesn't show off or become over-the-top like musicals usually do, it's about the characters and the satire.

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