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Charlotte Gray

(2002, Rated PG-13, Drama, Starring Cate Blanchett, James Fleet, Abigail Cruttenden)

  • Is it age appropriate?

    About our ratings

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    Not age appropriate for kids under 14, age appropriate for kids over 15; suggested age 14.

  • Is it any good?

    3.0

  • Common Sense says

    Mature material in this old-fashioned WWII movie.

Why We Rated This iffy for Ages 14–15

The good stuff

  • Messages:

    Strong, brave, capable female character, Nazi treatment of Jews
 

What to watch out for

  • Violence:

    Battle violence, tense and scary scenes, characters killed

  • Sex:

    Sexual situation, no nudity; enemy pressures heroine for sexual favors

  • Language:

    Some strong language

  • Consumerism:

    Not an issue.

  • Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

    Drinking and smoking
 

What Parents Need to Know

About Charlotte Gray

Parents need to know that this movie has brutal wartime violence and wrenching emotional scenes, including children in peril and the deaths of important characters. There is some strong language and a non-graphic sexual situation. Characters smoke and drink. The issue of Nazi anti- Semitism is frankly portrayed. The female main character is brave, smart, and heroic.

Read our full review by Nell Minow

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Families Can Talk About

  • Families can talk about how we can never know what we will do until we are fully tested, which is why stories and movies about war are as much about our internal challenges as about our historical ones. An RAF pilot tells Charlotte, "war makes us into people we didn't know we were." How is that good, how is it bad, and how is it both? Why did Charlotte make the choice she did? Why did Julien make the choice he did? Why did the schoolmaster make the choice he did? Does war present different choices to us than peacetime, or just the same ones more starkly?
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