Courage Mountain

The character for Heidi was not at all accurate to the original Heidi's personality. She lacks joy and is quite selfish. The rating of this movie is inaccurate. There is a good bit of sexual connotations. The milkman starts kissing a loosely dressed woman and enters her home. It has a bad message in that Heidi excuses this immorality by saying that there is nothing wrong with it because they "Love each other." There is also a scene in which young girls are in their underclothes and also there are a few flashes of statues of naked men. At the end there is a little peck on the mouth between Heidi and Peter.

Enjoyed it but be aware [SPOILERS] that it features a scene with kids picking their way through a WWI battlefield strewn with dead soldiers. The bodies are somewhat off-camera, but here and there you can see a leg or the back of a head (with the rest of the body obscured by dirt or a wagon or whatever - there aren't "body parts," it's just that they only show part of each dead soldier). The girls scavenge among the dead for clothing. This scene is unnecessarily long, as well as entirely unnecessary. There is also a quick shot of a child's skeleton in a sewer, and repeated references to how the villain would likely put a child down there if he wanted to get rid of the child. Two villains also discuss that when they capture a group of children they are going to (and here, they draw their finger across their necks, and say "KRRRRCKT!!"). My youngest viewer didn't understand the reference, but older ones will. The movie culminates with the villain dragging a group of girls away to an isolated place, because he intends to murder them. He offhandly mentions that they should see the fantastic view "before they die," and the girls all begin screaming. They are rescued, but not before the audience is shown a screaming human fall a half mile to his death. The body bounces down the mountain and only the final impact isn't shown. No blood, but intense. I'd save this film for ages 12 and up.