I am a parent and I love this movie, its fun and if you watch it with your kids you can explain any part you dislike or really like about the movie. its a very interesting movie.
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Not age appropriate for kids under 6, age appropriate for kids over 9; suggested age 9. -
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Common Sense says
Kids go on strike in gritty, historical musical.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 9 and Up
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What Parents Need to Know
About Newsies
Parents need to know that this Disney production features a tough, New York street-level milieu, in which confrontations frequently threaten to culminate in fist-fighting, and often do. There are menacing scenes of adults threatening to beat children using clubs and chains, and a rivalry between different subsets of kids looks somewhat like street gangs. One boy smokes cigarettes. There is a strong pro-union (and anti-management) sentiment throughout.
Read our full review by Charles Cassady Jr.
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the history of labor movements and strikes, plus the larger-than-life characters of Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and a certain U.S. president who makes a cameo at the end. There really was a newsboys' strike, and you could fact-check the parts about it this movie gets wrong. Newsies also proposes, loud and clear, that despite its supposed watchdog role, the media is just as corporate as any other business -- and just as nasty and unethical when its interests are threatened. Of course, unions can misbehave as well, for the same reasons, but you don't see that here. How do we look at the media and at unions today?
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- I rate this title on for age 7 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
A movie you can melt in to!
- I rate this title on for age 8 and give it
good movie.
i enjoyed the historical realism and context in the movie and some of the music numbers.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
RIGHT ON
i like it alot but not for those who dont watch oliver twist.
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