The movie is well made but perhaps also a little stiff for some genre fans still, older teens and up with sophisticated tastes may like it.Īdapted from a novel by Sarah Waters, this gothic noir is well made, with eerie camera moves and cuts, but it also seems stuck in an air of tastefulness it never manages to get the blood flowing. There are also scenes of adults drinking socially and smoking language is limited to single uses of 'ass' and 'hell.' A man and a woman kiss and grope each other in a car, and there's some sex-related dialogue. A young girl is seen drinking alcohol at a party and claims to have smoked a cigarette.

One person is covered in burn scars, a mother slaps a young boy, and characters sometimes rage angrily, smashing glasses or gulping down whiskey. There's a lot of blood: A little girl is mauled by a dog (the mauling happens offscreen, but she's shown with bloody wounds), characters are sliced open by broken glass, and characters die. Parents need to know that The Little Stranger is a gothic noir film that's set in the 1940s and based on a novel by Sarah Waters. Adults drink socially (brandy, etc.) and smoke.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Character gulps down whiskey after being rejected. A young girl drinks alcohol at a party and claims she once smoked a cigarette.

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