What age is A Good Doctor (Docteur ?) appropriate for?

10 alone, 9 with a parent; 10 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is A Good Doctor (Docteur ?) not recommended under 10?

What's in it: sixty swear words in one night; patients, a death spoken of, tears. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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A Good Doctor (Docteur ?): what age is it for? 10 alone, 9 with a parent

10 alone, 9 with a parent.

Movie · 2019 · 1 h 28 · comedy

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The trailer

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralone

Alone from 10; from 9, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

In France, zinema would say 10.

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What it's about

On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.

Why 10

Sixty swear words in one nightA doctor on call on Christmas Eve, his back seized up, who sends his delivery man in his place: a night of patients, arguments and bad language, sixty swear words in under an hour and a half.
Patients, a death spoken of, tearsHouse calls where dying is talked about, a patient believed lost, two minutes of crying in all; Christmas Eve cigarettes and wine.

What the movie brings

A delivery man who becomes a doctor for a night and a doctor who learns to listen again: the comedy of two lonelinesses.
The job of emergency house-call doctors, seen from the inside, on a night when nobody wants to be ill.
Michel Blanc and Hakim Jemili, a duo that bickers and bonds.

Watching it together

Before

Warn that the language is rough from start to finish; the rest is a Christmas night that ends well.

After

at 10 and up

Malek lies to patients by passing himself off as a doctor: is he doing them harm?

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A zinema reading from September 19, 2026 · the whole movie, watched in full · the age by zinema's rules for the US and France, and a human reading · report an error · how this guide is made