Miracle at St. Anna (R, 2008)
common sense media says
Brutal WWII battlefield fable isn't for kids.
parents & educators say
What parents need to know
Parents need to know that, from start to finish, this is a violent war movie and not meant for kids. Though the filmmakers try to humanize the characters (including portraying a sympathetic Nazi), acts of cruelty, barbaric murder, wounding, and killing are graphically depicted throughout the film. Images include gunshots to the head, severed limbs, the massacre of innocent victims (including many children and babies), and blood gushing from heads and bodies and pooling around lifeless soldiers in the water. A young child is in danger throughout the film. Vicious racism is a continuing theme, and language is frequently crass and explicit (including many uses of both "f--k" and the "N" word). Two scenes show a bare-breasted woman; another includes passionate sexual foreplay.
Violence:
Explicit wartime brutality includes use of grenades and rifles, bloody deaths, severed limbs, and point-blank shooting. A savage massacre of an entire village in front of a church includes a close-up of a priest as he's shot in the head and graphic murders of children, women, and the elderly. A young boy is in jeopardy in many scenes throughout the movie. Also stabbings, a throat slashing, and several ambushes resulting in mass murder of unsuspecting villagers.
Sex:
A provocatively dressed young woman engages in seductive behavior to get her boyfriend's attention; a soldier views the bare breasts of woman preparing to do laundry; a brief scene of passionate sexual foreplay includes kissing, embracing, and undressing, with bare breasts visible.
Language:
Pervasive swearing throughout includes countless use of all forms of "f--k," as well as "s--t," "bastard," "p---y," "sons of bitches," "whore," "goddamn," and more. Frequent use of the "N" word both as a racial taunt by white bigots and between African-American soldiers as "buddy speak."
Consumerism:
Camel cigarettes.
Drinking, drugs, & smoking:
Smoking throughout, as was common during the period.
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eastside01
teen, 17 years old
teen, 17 years old
Miracle at St. Anna and at home.
Miracle at st. anna is one of the best films by Writer/director Spike Lee and delivers a great war film.
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SLUMDOG
teen, 14 years old
teen, 14 years old
best world war 2 film since saving private ryan
this worls war 2 film is very well done a masterpiece . very rairly do war film excell beyond the oh soliders are captured recue them no this one has a stroy line about battalion you have probaly never heard of. the film is brilliant, but nt for kids the film containes constant extreme violence. but stilla great film
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Plague
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Miracle at St. Anna
Great movie with brutal violence and explicit action. A good movie for older teens who are mature enough to take the carnage.
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