Judy Blume finally approved an “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” movie

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed to see it’s PG-13. Will it be appropriate for a 9 year old?

yes. I am taking my 10yo. She got her period and had breasts already, plus we read the book.

I just read a review that said the movie shows the girls finding Playboy in Dad’s room, has the girls talking about sexual urges, and has some kissing in a closet scene. It feels a little too mature for my 9 year old. We will pass.

Are you there, God? Please tell me this poster is joking.

Seriously. . . wtaf?

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Anonymous wrote:This was supposed to be the reply to the post that said “God forbid they leave about kissing.”

My issue wasn’t kissing. It was the context of it (spin the bottle). Plus the Playboy reference. I’m not ready for my 9 year old to leave about that. And I certainly don’t need her chanting “I must. I must. I must increase my bust.”

I’m so glad this movie gave me an opportunity to talk to my 9yo, who turns 10 next month, about:
-The pressure around kissing and parties and games like that, so she doesn’t feel like she has to participate if she doesn’t want to (though we also discussed that these days young kids aren’t left alone in basements at parties)
-What pornography is, and why I don’t personally choose to look at it, though I don’t judge people who do. We even talked about coercion and sex trafficking so she understands that not everyone who poses for those magazines or websites is doing so of their own true free will.
-The pressure to look a certain way, whether it is thin or to have a developed chest, etc., so she knows that beauty standards can be ridiculous and even harmful, and everything to do with appearance—makeup, shaving, clothing, etc.—can be her choice.
-Menstruation, which she already knew about, but this movie gave us a nice way of talking about it some more.

All of these things, I want to be the first to talk to her about. I don’t want her to be over at a friend’s house and come across a “girly magazine” and not know what the heck it is and what’s going on. I don’t want her to attend a party and that is her first introduction to the fact that Spin the Bottle and those kinds of pressure-y games can exist. I will take every opportunity to talk to my daughters about complex issues and be their first introduction to those topics. The world won’t wait for me every time, so I’m so glad the first person to talk to her about the pressure to “must increase her bust” is me, not some older kid or some mean girl.

That’s great. That’s your choice! My friend and I with 9 year olds both feel our girls aren’t ready for this movie yet.

More than one friend of mine had 9 year olds who got their periods. Good luck with that.
And if they "aren't ready", you should take this as a personal failing, which it is.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid we let children be children and not expose them to things they don’t need to be exposed to yet.

Does your kid have a phone or ipad?

Kids are MENSTRUATING at 9, fwiw. So, yeah, they are already being exposed.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid we let children be children and not expose them to things they don’t need to be exposed to yet.

My mother's failure to "expose" me to the things everyone in my school was talking about DROVE me to Judy Blume. I wanted to understand.

Talk to your daughter, PP. Or she will turn to someone else.

Everyone is talking about Playboy, boys with binoculars looking into girl’s windows, spin the bottle, and chanting “I must increase my bust”? Sure.

No, these days 'everyone' is talking about sexting and oral sex. Spin the bottle seems pretty tame by comparison.

Not in 4th grade. My 7th grader just learned what oral sex was actually. My 4th grader has no clue. And neither of them know what sexting is. My kids don’t have phones or social media.

Adorbs. My 4th grader, a few years back, had a boy ask her about "blow jobs" and simulated it to her with a frozen yogurt stick (Gogurt).

It's kind of adorable that you think 4th grade is too early.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid we let children be children and not expose them to things they don’t need to be exposed to yet.

Does your kid have a phone or ipad?

Kids are MENSTRUATING at 9, fwiw. So, yeah, they are already being exposed.

Nope

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Anonymous wrote:This was supposed to be the reply to the post that said “God forbid they leave about kissing.”

My issue wasn’t kissing. It was the context of it (spin the bottle). Plus the Playboy reference. I’m not ready for my 9 year old to leave about that. And I certainly don’t need her chanting “I must. I must. I must increase my bust.”

I’m so glad this movie gave me an opportunity to talk to my 9yo, who turns 10 next month, about:
-The pressure around kissing and parties and games like that, so she doesn’t feel like she has to participate if she doesn’t want to (though we also discussed that these days young kids aren’t left alone in basements at parties)
-What pornography is, and why I don’t personally choose to look at it, though I don’t judge people who do. We even talked about coercion and sex trafficking so she understands that not everyone who poses for those magazines or websites is doing so of their own true free will.
-The pressure to look a certain way, whether it is thin or to have a developed chest, etc., so she knows that beauty standards can be ridiculous and even harmful, and everything to do with appearance—makeup, shaving, clothing, etc.—can be her choice.
-Menstruation, which she already knew about, but this movie gave us a nice way of talking about it some more.

All of these things, I want to be the first to talk to her about. I don’t want her to be over at a friend’s house and come across a “girly magazine” and not know what the heck it is and what’s going on. I don’t want her to attend a party and that is her first introduction to the fact that Spin the Bottle and those kinds of pressure-y games can exist. I will take every opportunity to talk to my daughters about complex issues and be their first introduction to those topics. The world won’t wait for me every time, so I’m so glad the first person to talk to her about the pressure to “must increase her bust” is me, not some older kid or some mean girl.

That’s great. That’s your choice! My friend and I with 9 year olds both feel our girls aren’t ready for this movie yet.

That’s great. That’s your choice! Maybe don’t dump all over a movie you haven’t even seen.

I haven’t dumped on it. I explained my reasoning just as so many explained why they wanted to go. It’s called an adult discussion. Everyone is welcome to chime in on a thread.

NP. Go away. You’re obnoxious. If several people have said this on the same thread. It’s you…not them.

Lol. Why are you so triggered by someone who doesn’t want to take their kid to this movie?

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed to see it’s PG-13. Will it be appropriate for a 9 year old?

yes. I am taking my 10yo. She got her period and had breasts already, plus we read the book.

I just read a review that said the movie shows the girls finding Playboy in Dad’s room, has the girls talking about sexual urges, and has some kissing in a closet scene. It feels a little too mature for my 9 year old. We will pass.

I'm a Gen-X mom who memorized the book in the 1980s. My 11 year old (she'll be 12 next month) and I saw it last night at the early screening. We loved it! We read the book together months ago.

With regard to the Playboy scene, it's really not a big deal at all. They look at the centerfold (nothing is shown) and comment on "how round they are", and Gretchen says that hers look like "little wizard hats." I don't recall anything about "sexual urges" - they do talk about boys they think are cute, like most pre-teen girls. The spin the bottle and the kissing in the closet are just pecks, not full-on making out. In the book, Nancy (an annoying, bossy show-off who acts much more sophisticated than she really is) practices kissing on a pillow, but in the movie, she kisses her bedpost. Philip pinches Margaret on her birthday and tells her it's a pinch to grow an inch, and "you know where you need that inch." I don't think there is anything in this movie that kids haven't already seen or heard at school or on the bus, but I imagine very conservative parents, ones who might support legislation like Florida House Bill 1069, might still find something objectionable. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-ban-menstruation-education-elementary-school/

I found this movie to be very well done. The 1970s music and the period costumes and sets are awesome. Kathy Bates is fantastic as Grandma Sylvia. Rachel McAdams is great as the flower child artist mom who doesn't quite fit in with the strait-laced, uptight suburban moms with their beehive hairdos. It's set in 1970 so there's still some leftover 1960s vibes happening. The religious scenes run the gamut from the Jewish temple, the African-American Baptist church, the mainline Protestant church, and the Catholic Church. The tug-of-war between the grandparents on what religion Margaret should be is well done as well. Margaret says something that resonates in today's political climate and culture wars - she observes that "religion causes people to fight." Yet, she still has her own relationship with God.

I also loved how inclusive the film is - Janie, Mr. Benedict, and Freddy Barnett are African-American. In the scene where everyone is getting ready for the fancy dinner party at Norman Fisher's house (in the book he was "that drip" Norman Fishbein, but in the movie he kind of resembles Rowley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies) they show the girls getting their hair done, and Janie's mom heats up the hot comb to do Janie's hair. We cracked up at the scene where Margaret and Janie buy Teenage Softies pads at the drugstore so that they're ready for their big day.

And the Laura Danker angle was well handled too. Laura is a 6th grader who developed earlier than the other girls and she's the target of teasing because of it, and in her interactions with Laura, Margaret learns an important lesson on how to treat people.

Opening day is Friday, April 28th - go see the movie! Since we were there for the early screening, we got some free Margaret merch (drinking cups with the movie logo) and a representative from the movie company was there after the screening to collect comments from us - how we rated the movie, our age group, would we rent or buy the movie if it became available and in what format, what was our main reason for seeing the movie, etc.

I think there’s a big difference between ages 9 and 11. I’m not ready to have my 9 year old learn what spin the bottle is, or what Playboy is. We will pass.

Raise your hand if you think this is “dumping” on the movie as PP has accused me.

It's just very "ME ME ME." There are a lot of TV shows and movies that I don't watch, and I don't normally post 16 times in a thread about them about me deciding not to watch them. It just doesn't contribute much - and sort of derails the whole thing. Also PP is being oddly argumentative. Maybe one post about how she doesn't feel comfortable taking her 9 year old could be relevant - but the same post, over and over and over, does become a strange sort of dumping. Or if not dumping, it's just a bizarre need to be the center of the conversation - when most of us just want to talk about how much we love the movie.

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed to see it’s PG-13. Will it be appropriate for a 9 year old?

yes. I am taking my 10yo. She got her period and had breasts already, plus we read the book.

I just read a review that said the movie shows the girls finding Playboy in Dad’s room, has the girls talking about sexual urges, and has some kissing in a closet scene. It feels a little too mature for my 9 year old. We will pass.

I'm a Gen-X mom who memorized the book in the 1980s. My 11 year old (she'll be 12 next month) and I saw it last night at the early screening. We loved it! We read the book together months ago.

With regard to the Playboy scene, it's really not a big deal at all. They look at the centerfold (nothing is shown) and comment on "how round they are", and Gretchen says that hers look like "little wizard hats." I don't recall anything about "sexual urges" - they do talk about boys they think are cute, like most pre-teen girls. The spin the bottle and the kissing in the closet are just pecks, not full-on making out. In the book, Nancy (an annoying, bossy show-off who acts much more sophisticated than she really is) practices kissing on a pillow, but in the movie, she kisses her bedpost. Philip pinches Margaret on her birthday and tells her it's a pinch to grow an inch, and "you know where you need that inch." I don't think there is anything in this movie that kids haven't already seen or heard at school or on the bus, but I imagine very conservative parents, ones who might support legislation like Florida House Bill 1069, might still find something objectionable. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-ban-menstruation-education-elementary-school/

I found this movie to be very well done. The 1970s music and the period costumes and sets are awesome. Kathy Bates is fantastic as Grandma Sylvia. Rachel McAdams is great as the flower child artist mom who doesn't quite fit in with the strait-laced, uptight suburban moms with their beehive hairdos. It's set in 1970 so there's still some leftover 1960s vibes happening. The religious scenes run the gamut from the Jewish temple, the African-American Baptist church, the mainline Protestant church, and the Catholic Church. The tug-of-war between the grandparents on what religion Margaret should be is well done as well. Margaret says something that resonates in today's political climate and culture wars - she observes that "religion causes people to fight." Yet, she still has her own relationship with God.

I also loved how inclusive the film is - Janie, Mr. Benedict, and Freddy Barnett are African-American. In the scene where everyone is getting ready for the fancy dinner party at Norman Fisher's house (in the book he was "that drip" Norman Fishbein, but in the movie he kind of resembles Rowley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies) they show the girls getting their hair done, and Janie's mom heats up the hot comb to do Janie's hair. We cracked up at the scene where Margaret and Janie buy Teenage Softies pads at the drugstore so that they're ready for their big day.

And the Laura Danker angle was well handled too. Laura is a 6th grader who developed earlier than the other girls and she's the target of teasing because of it, and in her interactions with Laura, Margaret learns an important lesson on how to treat people.

Opening day is Friday, April 28th - go see the movie! Since we were there for the early screening, we got some free Margaret merch (drinking cups with the movie logo) and a representative from the movie company was there after the screening to collect comments from us - how we rated the movie, our age group, would we rent or buy the movie if it became available and in what format, what was our main reason for seeing the movie, etc.

I think there’s a big difference between ages 9 and 11. I’m not ready to have my 9 year old learn what spin the bottle is, or what Playboy is. We will pass.

Raise your hand if you think this is “dumping” on the movie as PP has accused me.

Yes, and here’s why: it was 100% unnecessary for you to participate in this thread. If you don’t want to see the movie, and/or if you don’t want to take your kids? Great, fine. Then why are you here? You saying your 9-year-old is not ready to learn what Spring the Bottle is and what Playboy is is just not necessary for you to comment here, when other parents are making a different decision. *Especially* when you have not seen the movie. If you had seen the movie and were commenting that it wasn’t appropriate for your kid, that would at least have some relevance to this thread.

Remember the old rule about thinking before you speak…”Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?”

I suggest you look at the original post which started the thread. It’s referencing a trailer and started before the movie was even out. This isn’t a review of the movie thread. I am welcome to comment that I’m passing on the movie after having seen the trailer.

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Anonymous wrote:This was supposed to be the reply to the post that said “God forbid they leave about kissing.”

My issue wasn’t kissing. It was the context of it (spin the bottle). Plus the Playboy reference. I’m not ready for my 9 year old to leave about that. And I certainly don’t need her chanting “I must. I must. I must increase my bust.”

I’m so glad this movie gave me an opportunity to talk to my 9yo, who turns 10 next month, about:
-The pressure around kissing and parties and games like that, so she doesn’t feel like she has to participate if she doesn’t want to (though we also discussed that these days young kids aren’t left alone in basements at parties)
-What pornography is, and why I don’t personally choose to look at it, though I don’t judge people who do. We even talked about coercion and sex trafficking so she understands that not everyone who poses for those magazines or websites is doing so of their own true free will.
-The pressure to look a certain way, whether it is thin or to have a developed chest, etc., so she knows that beauty standards can be ridiculous and even harmful, and everything to do with appearance—makeup, shaving, clothing, etc.—can be her choice.
-Menstruation, which she already knew about, but this movie gave us a nice way of talking about it some more.

All of these things, I want to be the first to talk to her about. I don’t want her to be over at a friend’s house and come across a “girly magazine” and not know what the heck it is and what’s going on. I don’t want her to attend a party and that is her first introduction to the fact that Spin the Bottle and those kinds of pressure-y games can exist. I will take every opportunity to talk to my daughters about complex issues and be their first introduction to those topics. The world won’t wait for me every time, so I’m so glad the first person to talk to her about the pressure to “must increase her bust” is me, not some older kid or some mean girl.

That’s great. That’s your choice! My friend and I with 9 year olds both feel our girls aren’t ready for this movie yet.

More than one friend of mine had 9 year olds who got their periods. Good luck with that.
And if they "aren't ready", you should take this as a personal failing, which it is.

The period part doesn’t bother me at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed to see it’s PG-13. Will it be appropriate for a 9 year old?

yes. I am taking my 10yo. She got her period and had breasts already, plus we read the book.

I just read a review that said the movie shows the girls finding Playboy in Dad’s room, has the girls talking about sexual urges, and has some kissing in a closet scene. It feels a little too mature for my 9 year old. We will pass.

I'm a Gen-X mom who memorized the book in the 1980s. My 11 year old (she'll be 12 next month) and I saw it last night at the early screening. We loved it! We read the book together months ago.

With regard to the Playboy scene, it's really not a big deal at all. They look at the centerfold (nothing is shown) and comment on "how round they are", and Gretchen says that hers look like "little wizard hats." I don't recall anything about "sexual urges" - they do talk about boys they think are cute, like most pre-teen girls. The spin the bottle and the kissing in the closet are just pecks, not full-on making out. In the book, Nancy (an annoying, bossy show-off who acts much more sophisticated than she really is) practices kissing on a pillow, but in the movie, she kisses her bedpost. Philip pinches Margaret on her birthday and tells her it's a pinch to grow an inch, and "you know where you need that inch." I don't think there is anything in this movie that kids haven't already seen or heard at school or on the bus, but I imagine very conservative parents, ones who might support legislation like Florida House Bill 1069, might still find something objectionable. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-ban-menstruation-education-elementary-school/

I found this movie to be very well done. The 1970s music and the period costumes and sets are awesome. Kathy Bates is fantastic as Grandma Sylvia. Rachel McAdams is great as the flower child artist mom who doesn't quite fit in with the strait-laced, uptight suburban moms with their beehive hairdos. It's set in 1970 so there's still some leftover 1960s vibes happening. The religious scenes run the gamut from the Jewish temple, the African-American Baptist church, the mainline Protestant church, and the Catholic Church. The tug-of-war between the grandparents on what religion Margaret should be is well done as well. Margaret says something that resonates in today's political climate and culture wars - she observes that "religion causes people to fight." Yet, she still has her own relationship with God.

I also loved how inclusive the film is - Janie, Mr. Benedict, and Freddy Barnett are African-American. In the scene where everyone is getting ready for the fancy dinner party at Norman Fisher's house (in the book he was "that drip" Norman Fishbein, but in the movie he kind of resembles Rowley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies) they show the girls getting their hair done, and Janie's mom heats up the hot comb to do Janie's hair. We cracked up at the scene where Margaret and Janie buy Teenage Softies pads at the drugstore so that they're ready for their big day.

And the Laura Danker angle was well handled too. Laura is a 6th grader who developed earlier than the other girls and she's the target of teasing because of it, and in her interactions with Laura, Margaret learns an important lesson on how to treat people.

Opening day is Friday, April 28th - go see the movie! Since we were there for the early screening, we got some free Margaret merch (drinking cups with the movie logo) and a representative from the movie company was there after the screening to collect comments from us - how we rated the movie, our age group, would we rent or buy the movie if it became available and in what format, what was our main reason for seeing the movie, etc.

I think there’s a big difference between ages 9 and 11. I’m not ready to have my 9 year old learn what spin the bottle is, or what Playboy is. We will pass.

Raise your hand if you think this is “dumping” on the movie as PP has accused me.

It's just very "ME ME ME." There are a lot of TV shows and movies that I don't watch, and I don't normally post 16 times in a thread about them about me deciding not to watch them. It just doesn't contribute much - and sort of derails the whole thing. Also PP is being oddly argumentative. Maybe one post about how she doesn't feel comfortable taking her 9 year old could be relevant - but the same post, over and over and over, does become a strange sort of dumping. Or if not dumping, it's just a bizarre need to be the center of the conversation - when most of us just want to talk about how much we love the movie.

When I originally posted once about not taking my kid, I was immediately questioned as to why and then there were like at least 5-6 posts after with why people were going and how bad of a parent I must be.

I think I understand now. I’m only allowed to reply in a thread if I agree with the majority? Lol

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid we let children be children and not expose them to things they don’t need to be exposed to yet.

Yes much better for tweens/early teens to be alone and clueless with their thoughts and feelings about puberty and sexuality than having an open discussion.

I think this movie would be fine for tweens.

Like I said earlier, big difference between 9 and 11 in my book.

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Anonymous wrote:God forbid we let children be children and not expose them to things they don’t need to be exposed to yet.

My mother's failure to "expose" me to the things everyone in my school was talking about DROVE me to Judy Blume. I wanted to understand.

Talk to your daughter, PP. Or she will turn to someone else.

Everyone is talking about Playboy, boys with binoculars looking into girl’s windows, spin the bottle, and chanting “I must increase my bust”? Sure.

No, these days 'everyone' is talking about sexting and oral sex. Spin the bottle seems pretty tame by comparison.

Not in 4th grade. My 7th grader just learned what oral sex was actually. My 4th grader has no clue. And neither of them know what sexting is. My kids don’t have phones or social media.

Adorbs. My 4th grader, a few years back, had a boy ask her about "blow jobs" and simulated it to her with a frozen yogurt stick (Gogurt).

It's kind of adorable that you think 4th grade is too early.

I’m really sorry your child experienced that. I hope you reported it to the school. Thankfully that hasn’t happened with my child. That wouldn’t be a reason I would take my child to this movie though.

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Anonymous wrote:I was disappointed to see it’s PG-13. Will it be appropriate for a 9 year old?

yes. I am taking my 10yo. She got her period and had breasts already, plus we read the book.

I just read a review that said the movie shows the girls finding Playboy in Dad’s room, has the girls talking about sexual urges, and has some kissing in a closet scene. It feels a little too mature for my 9 year old. We will pass.

I'm a Gen-X mom who memorized the book in the 1980s. My 11 year old (she'll be 12 next month) and I saw it last night at the early screening. We loved it! We read the book together months ago.

With regard to the Playboy scene, it's really not a big deal at all. They look at the centerfold (nothing is shown) and comment on "how round they are", and Gretchen says that hers look like "little wizard hats." I don't recall anything about "sexual urges" - they do talk about boys they think are cute, like most pre-teen girls. The spin the bottle and the kissing in the closet are just pecks, not full-on making out. In the book, Nancy (an annoying, bossy show-off who acts much more sophisticated than she really is) practices kissing on a pillow, but in the movie, she kisses her bedpost. Philip pinches Margaret on her birthday and tells her it's a pinch to grow an inch, and "you know where you need that inch." I don't think there is anything in this movie that kids haven't already seen or heard at school or on the bus, but I imagine very conservative parents, ones who might support legislation like Florida House Bill 1069, might still find something objectionable. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-bill-ban-menstruation-education-elementary-school/

I found this movie to be very well done. The 1970s music and the period costumes and sets are awesome. Kathy Bates is fantastic as Grandma Sylvia. Rachel McAdams is great as the flower child artist mom who doesn't quite fit in with the strait-laced, uptight suburban moms with their beehive hairdos. It's set in 1970 so there's still some leftover 1960s vibes happening. The religious scenes run the gamut from the Jewish temple, the African-American Baptist church, the mainline Protestant church, and the Catholic Church. The tug-of-war between the grandparents on what religion Margaret should be is well done as well. Margaret says something that resonates in today's political climate and culture wars - she observes that "religion causes people to fight." Yet, she still has her own relationship with God.

I also loved how inclusive the film is - Janie, Mr. Benedict, and Freddy Barnett are African-American. In the scene where everyone is getting ready for the fancy dinner party at Norman Fisher's house (in the book he was "that drip" Norman Fishbein, but in the movie he kind of resembles Rowley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies) they show the girls getting their hair done, and Janie's mom heats up the hot comb to do Janie's hair. We cracked up at the scene where Margaret and Janie buy Teenage Softies pads at the drugstore so that they're ready for their big day.

And the Laura Danker angle was well handled too. Laura is a 6th grader who developed earlier than the other girls and she's the target of teasing because of it, and in her interactions with Laura, Margaret learns an important lesson on how to treat people.

Opening day is Friday, April 28th - go see the movie! Since we were there for the early screening, we got some free Margaret merch (drinking cups with the movie logo) and a representative from the movie company was there after the screening to collect comments from us - how we rated the movie, our age group, would we rent or buy the movie if it became available and in what format, what was our main reason for seeing the movie, etc.

I think there’s a big difference between ages 9 and 11. I’m not ready to have my 9 year old learn what spin the bottle is, or what Playboy is. We will pass.

Raise your hand if you think this is “dumping” on the movie as PP has accused me.

It's just very "ME ME ME." There are a lot of TV shows and movies that I don't watch, and I don't normally post 16 times in a thread about them about me deciding not to watch them. It just doesn't contribute much - and sort of derails the whole thing. Also PP is being oddly argumentative. Maybe one post about how she doesn't feel comfortable taking her 9 year old could be relevant - but the same post, over and over and over, does become a strange sort of dumping. Or if not dumping, it's just a bizarre need to be the center of the conversation - when most of us just want to talk about how much we love the movie.

When I originally posted once about not taking my kid, I was immediately questioned as to why and then there were like at least 5-6 posts after with why people were going and how bad of a parent I must be.

I think I understand now. I’m only allowed to reply in a thread if I agree with the majority? Lol

Yes, this is still all about you, and how beleaguered you are.

It's not that you can only reply if you agree with the majority - but if your comment takes the thread away from what most people want to talk about, then, yeah, it's kind of just insisting that you are the center of everything.

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Anonymous wrote:Will this movie still be in theaters next weekend? I keep trying to look for showtimes and can’t find any in silver spring. I was trying to get a group together to go.

I read they're keeping it in theaters until Mother's Day.
Took my 11-year-old over the weekend and we both liked it. It's actually a very sweet, innocent movie. All this hang-wringing is really over nothing. Kids see far worse literally every day on YouTube kids.

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I saw it. It was well done. It’s did feel very true to what growing up in the 70s was like. Which isn’t captured on film a lot.

Girls’ coming of age stories are seldom told. I was glad to see this one. I hope it does okay in the theater.