Sep 20,2013
| nudity | A boy undresses to his underpants to go swimming in a pond. |
| violence | A childs lips get frozen to an icy car window, and he is pulled off the window by force. The scene is comedic, and no blood is shown. Two older boys shove a younger boy around, and kids shove each other in the backseat of a car. Vintage TV footage is shown of protestors being attacked by dogs and fire hoses. |
| profanity | A few rude comments are exchanged between the children (Shut up, Poindexter, Punk, Freak Delinquent). One use of pimp. |
| alcohol | None |
| frightening | The family hears radio reports of a bombing and the killing of Medgar Evers. As the movie is set in the Jim Crow South, black characters are forced to use segregated bathrooms, drinking fountains, schools, a lunch counter, and a movie theatre. While swimming in a pond, a boy is pulled under by a whirlpool. He imagines a shadowy figure is pulling him under. He takes a few gulps of water and stops breathing. The boy is pulled to safety by his older brother, who revives him. Characters hear (but do not see) a bomb exploding in the distance. In another scene, characters hear of their friends church being bombed. They arrive on-scene to broken glass, rubble, and screaming and crying people. A few bodies are shown on the ground and pulled out of the bombed building. No blood is shown. In the smoke of the building, a child imagines a monster coming toward him. The child believes his sister has been killed in the blast, until he learns she has survived. We hear later that four little girls have died in the blast. |
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