The Magic Of Belle Isle

Film

discriminatory language

THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE is a US drama in which an uninspired author befriends an imaginative child when he house-sits for the summer. …

THE MAGIC OF BELLE ISLE is a US drama in which an uninspired author befriends an imaginative child when he house-sits for the summer.

discrimination

A man with learning disabilities is referred to as 'retarded' and 'special'.

additional issues: A struggling author refers to his typewriter as a 'black hearted whore'. There are also uses of 'crap', 'God', 'hell', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'. A man fires a gun in the air at a children's party. An unlikable character refers to a woman's looks and jokes that he would never let her leave the bedroom. In one scene, an alcoholic threatens to take his own life, but he is not serious. Later, he is resolved to stop drinking. References are made to a woman losing her life to cancer. A man uses grisly descriptions of violence to shock children at a dinner table. There are also scenes of emotional upset when a mother and her children move on from a divorce.

discriminatory language

Classified Date:

12/10/2023

Version:

Use:

VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Icon Film Distribution

discrimination

A man with learning disabilities is referred to as 'retarded' and 'special'.

additional issues: A struggling author refers to his typewriter as a 'black hearted whore'. There are also uses of 'crap', 'God', 'hell', 'Jesus' and 'Christ'. A man fires a gun in the air at a children's party. An unlikable character refers to a woman's looks and jokes that he would never let her leave the bedroom. In one scene, an alcoholic threatens to take his own life, but he is not serious. Later, he is resolved to stop drinking. References are made to a woman losing her life to cancer. A man uses grisly descriptions of violence to shock children at a dinner table. There are also scenes of emotional upset when a mother and her children move on from a divorce.