What age is Steve Jobs appropriate for?

Rated R in the US. 17, alone or with a parent; 11 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Steve Jobs not recommended under 17?

What's in it: the official rating, first; a father who denies his daughter; backstage language; the rest. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Steve Jobs: what age is it for? 17, alone or with a parent

From 17, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2015 · 2 h 02 · drama, history

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The trailer

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The official US rating is R, and we never go below it. Alone from 17, and not before, even with an adult.

Official US rating: R. In France, zinema would say 11.

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What it's about

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

Why 17

The official rating, firstRated R in the US (restricted, under 17 requires an accompanying parent). zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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A father who denies his daughterJobs denies to the press that he is Lisa's father, cuts off her mother's money, then talks down to her for years; the scenes with the child, at five and then at nine, are the hardest thing in the film.
Backstage languageSome fifty swear words, shouted arguments backstage at product launches, and a jolt at every slammed door.
The restPeople talk of killing a project and of people who died, never on screen; a gun in a film clip, nothing more.

What the movie brings

Three launches, three acts, like a play: children who love words get their share.
A genius who is not a good person, and a film that refuses to choose between the two.
A daughter who ends up getting from her father what she wanted, without him saying it.

Watching it together

Before

Say beforehand that the film is almost entirely conversations, and that Jobs is often cruel to his daughter; that is what to talk about afterwards.

After

at 17 and up

Jobs says the people who make things matter more than the people who invent them: do you agree?

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