Movie Ratings

Little Miss Sunshine

  The film 'Little Miss Sunshine' is about a family driving their daughter to a beauty pageant. Everyone in the family has issues; the son doesn't talk, their uncle tried to kill himself, the father's book is not selling, the mother was divorced and the grandfather snorts cocaine. Olive is the daughter who got into the beauty pageant by default, and is not up to standards with the rest of the pageant girls at the Little Miss Sunshine competition. Before they reach their destination, the grandfather overdoses and dies. He is then unable to watch Olive's dance routine that he coached her on at the pageant which turns out to be practically a striptease. It is a very funny movie, but also a very inappropriate one.

   It was rated 14A by the OFRB. I was a bit surprised, because I thought it would be rated 18A. I could also see, though, why they rated it 14A because they added content advisories such as; coarse language and substance abuse, as well as many detailed observations; coarse language, slurs, sexual references, occasional upsetting or disturbing content, substance abuse, restrained portrayals of limited violence. Even though there is no nudity, brutal killings or gory scenes, there are many parts of the movie that are extremely blunt and in your face rude. The grandfather swears continuously throughout the entire movie and does drugs very often. It also deals with the fact that their uncle tried to kill commit suicide which is an intense topic. It's a great comedy but with a lot of sexual crude humor. I watched this movie before I was 14 but I do not think many parents would allow the same thing, which is why I disagree with the rating given by the OFRB.