Billy and Buddy

The movie contains some instances of peril. A dog attempts to walk along a balcony rail and falls to a flower pot below rather than the street. A turtle falls down a trash chute but survives. A kid runs away briefly but is reunited with his parents. A child lights matches over a trash chute, inadvertently setting it on fire and endangering an apartment complex, but no one is hurt. A boy is locked in a room briefly. A dog rides on the bumper of a truck at high speed but is not injured.

A dog and turtle are wildly attracted to each other and often flirt, expressed in voiceover from the animal's perspective. A turtle refers to the dog as a "dreamboat, muscular and hairy all over" and says she's getting dizzy when he's around. It's played for comedy, but some of it is suggestive of humping or orgasm, all with a backdrop of breathy French pop music. A man and woman kiss briefly.

Minor profanity in a handful of instances, such as "damn dog" or "move your ass" (expressed in subtitles).

A boy drinks Kool-Aid at a pretend bar in a fantasy scene where he's a cowboy at a saloon in the Old West.

Parents need to know that Billy and Buddy is a French film (Boule & Bill), subtitled in English, about a 1970s French family's adventure adopting a dog. There is some very minor profanity ("damn" and "ass") in subtitles, and some suggestive flirting between a turtle and a dog. A father also attempts to get rid of the dog by dropping it off in the countryside without telling his son, and the son runs away briefly during one scene. Otherwise, it's a moody, ultimately very sweet rumination on childhood and pet ownership through a child's eyes, but it's best for older kids with solid reading skills.

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