• Is it age appropriate?

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 15, age appropriate for kids over 17; suggested age 15.

• Is it any good?

  3.0

• Common Sense says

  Period drama delves into some heavy themes.

Why We Rated This for Ages 15–17

What to watch out for

• Messages:

  A man treats his wife like property, insisting that she provide him with a male heir. He also ignores their daughters and insists on keeping a mistress and flaunting her under his wife's nose.
• Violence:

  A man forces himself on a woman in a brutal scene, though there's no blood or injury. She's clearly affected by it and appears shell shocked afterward. Some threats are made between characters, there's some yelling, and a little boy is shown handling a firearm. Some discussion of wife-beating after a woman is shown with bruises on her skin.
• Sex:

  Some scenes of couplings/simulated sex in which both men and women are nude, though viewers don't see genitalia. Additional scenes hint at sex by training the camera on a door, behind which there's much moaning and rustling. A woman caresses another woman. There's also an unusual relationship in which two women share a man. Briefly, a woman is sighted leaving a man's bedroom, her naked backside showing.
• Language:

  Not an issue.
• Consumerism:

  Not an issue.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Lots of drinking, mostly at social events. Some characters drink to excess.

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