What age is Alibi.com appropriate for?

Rated PG-13 in the US. 13, alone or with a parent; 12 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Alibi.com not recommended under 13?

What's in it: the official rating, first; adult jokes, half said; language is very coarse; drinking and smoking, everywhere; guns and scuffles, played for laughs; lying as a business model. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Alibi.com: what age is it for? 13, alone or with a parent

From 13, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2017 · 1 h 26 · comedy, family

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The trailer

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The official US rating is PG-13, and we never go below it. Alone from 13, and not before, even with an adult.

The sweet spot: around 13-15, this is the age when the machinery of the film becomes readable: you watch the lie being built, you see the disaster coming, and the flirting humour makes you laugh instead of squirm. Before that, half the innuendo goes past you. Why a sweet spot?

Official US rating: PG-13. In France, zinema would say 12.

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What it's about

Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.

Why 13

The official rating, firstRated PG-13 in the US (parents strongly cautioned, some material may be inappropriate for children under 13). zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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Adult jokes, half saidThe comedy runs on what you understand between the lines: bedroom scenes that come back throughout, a few bare bodies in passing, and nonstop flirting and innuendo between adults. Breasts and arousal are joked about out loud. Younger kids don't laugh at this kind of gag, they simply look away.
Language is very coarseAround forty-six swear words in under ninety minutes, starting in the first two minutes, plus a handful of insults and one slur aimed at a gay man. It is thrown around casually, as part of the fun, which is exactly what makes it easy to repeat.
Drinking and smoking, everywhereWine, beer and cigarettes are constant background props among these adults, and drugs come up in the dialogue too. Nothing dramatic happens because of it, which is its own kind of message worth naming out loud.
Guns and scuffles, played for laughsGuns, a knife, gunshots heard, some scuffles and a bit of blood show up, but in a farcical register: nobody is meant to be scared. Death and beatings are talked about far more than shown. A teen reads the joke easily; a younger child hears the words literally.
Lying as a business modelThe whole premise is a company that manufactures lies for paying clients, and the film enjoys the cleverness of it for a long while before the bill comes due. That is a fine conversation with a teenager, a confusing one with a younger child.

What the movie brings

A fast, well-oiled farce where every lie eventually collides with another lie.
It shows, without a lecture, that a relationship built on a false front gets expensive.
Good material for talking about the difference between a white lie and a whole life of them.

Watching it together

Before

You might say up front: these characters are professionals at lying, and the movie is going to make us like them before it shows us the cost.

After

at 13 and up

Is there such a thing as a harmless lie, and where does it stop being harmless?

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