What age is Little Indian, Big City (Un Indien dans la ville) appropriate for?

8 alone, 7 with a parent; 8 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is Little Indian, Big City (Un Indien dans la ville) not recommended under 8?

What's in it: our reading; french-style swearing; a gangster who threatens a child; two children alone in Paris at night; a tarantula, piranhas, a hurt leg; drinks, cigarettes and kisses. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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Little Indian, Big City (Un Indien dans la ville): what age is it for? 8 alone, 7 with a parent

8 alone, 7 with a parent.

Movie · 1994 · 1 h 30 · adventure, drama, family, comedy

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The trailer

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The official US rating is PG; we never go below it, and here we go above: 8. Alone from 8; from 7, with an adult or by talking about it afterwards.

Official US rating: PG; zinema says 8. In France, zinema would say 8.

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What it's about

Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young jungle boy yearns to see Paris so Stephen reluctantly agrees to take him back home with him for a few days. How will Mimi-Siku react to life in the great metropolis?

Why 8

Our readingthe injuries come down to a hurt foot in the Amazon and the swearing is that of a 1994 French comedy; what holds the eight is the gangster who threatens to cut off the boy's fingers, played for laughs. Eight alone, seven with a parent.
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French-style swearingAbout thirty swear words in an hour and a half, those of a 1994 French comedy, mostly in the adults' mouths. A child will hear them; none is aimed at them with malice.
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A gangster who threatens a childA ridiculous but armed Russian trafficker threatens to cut off the little boy's fingers to get a briefcase back; knives, two guns, a few gunshots and a slapstick brawl. It is played for laughs, and a seven year old may not laugh right away.
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Two children alone in Paris at nightMimi-Siku and the neighbor's daughter run away, dart between cars, spend a night outside; their parents search for them, shouting. The film makes it an adventure, but it is the moment a young viewer feels most concerned.
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A tarantula, piranhas, a hurt legIn the Amazon, an injured foot and a fever, a tarantula kept in a pocket, a ceremonial fire; in Paris, a blowpipe dart and an unlucky cat. Nothing bloody that lasts.
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Drinks, cigarettes and kissesThe adults smoke and drink, a wedding is being prepared, there are kisses; the couple comedy goes over children's heads.
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What the movie brings

A child who knows nothing of the city and copes better than the adults: the fresh eye as a strength.
An absent father who meets his son at thirteen and learns to listen: the film speaks to parents as much as to children.
A French comedy three generations can watch together, with its silliness and its heart.

Watching it together

Before

The gangster's threat to the boy's fingers, near the end, is the one scene where a seven year old will need to be told it is for laughs.

After

at 8 and up

What can Mimi-Siku do that his father cannot? And the other way around?

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