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Family Film Guide: 'Blindsight,' 'Baby Mama'
Friday, April 25, 2008
The Post-Gazette reviews movies from a family perspective:
'Blindsight'

Rated: PG.

Suitable for: Tweens and older.

What you should know: Six blind Tibetan teens attempt to scale the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Everest with a group that includes Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 2001. Their story is remarkable and inspirational and is playing at the Harris Theater, Downtown.

Language: Mild.

Sexual situations and nudity: None.

Violence/scary situations: One 19-year-old has cigarette burns (not shown) on his skin, the apparent result of a couple who made a deal with his father and forced him to beg for money on the street. It's disturbing to hear attitudes about the blind in Tibet and when some of the climbers fall ill (although everyone recovers). References also are made to Weihenmayer losing his mother and his sight as a teenager.

Drug or alcohol use: Nothing notable.

'Baby Mama'

Rated: PG-13.

Suitable for: Older teens and adults.

What you should know: Tina Fey, who can't have kids herself, hires Amy Poehler to be her surrogate mother, but they're a yin-and-yang odd couple when they have to live together.

Language: Some crude language and periodic use of relatively mild profanity.

Sexual situations and nudity: None, but sexual situations are implicit throughout.

Violence/scary situations: None.

Drug or alcohol use: Drugs are referred to, but there is no on-screen use.

First published on April 25, 2008 at 12:00 am
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