The Age of Adaline-Teen Movie Review

A life with no grey hairs, no wrinkles on your face and remaining 29 years of age for decades sounds wonderful, however it wasn’t for Adeline Bowman (Blake Lively). In 1935 Adaline was in a car crash and ended up immersed in a freezing river and her heart stopped. However, shortly after the accident she was struck by a bolt of lightning and miraculously became, “immune to the ravages of time.” Moving every decade and changing her identity lead to a sad and lonely life, however things dramatically changed the day she met Ellis Jones (Michiel Huisman). A handsome philanthropist and a man who changed Adaline’s life forever.

Rating: 4 out of 5 popcorn buckets
Release Date: September 8, 2015
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 13+
Sexual Content: Mild
Violent/Disturbing Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Mild
Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild
Will Most Pre-teens and Teens Like It? No

Talking Points:

The film highlights the fact that not growing old with your loved ones would be a very lonely life. As one character says, “For all those years you’ve lived, you’ve never had a life.”
The movie is very predicable and somewhat slow in parts.

Sexual Content: Mild

Adaline and Ellis passionately kiss several times throughout the film.
We see Adaline and Ellis in bed together (covered by a sheet).
When Ellis steps out the shower we see him wrapped in a towel.

Violent/Disturbing Content: Mild

We see two car crashes. In the first one (described in the synopsis) Adaline drowns in a freezing lake before she’s shocked by a bolt of lightning. In the second accident a character is shown bleeding by the side of the road, though shocked back to life.
Adaline cut her hand, we see the bleeding wound getting stitched up.

Crude or Profane Language: Mild

We hear “sh-t,” “h—,” and “d–n.

Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild

We see character’s drinking hard liquor at parties.
In a flashback scene, character’s are shown smoking.

Will Most Teens Like It? No

As I previously mentioned the film is slow in parts. I interviewed some pre-teen girls after the movie who said liked the main characters, though they thought the film was slow and boring.

Overall this is an appropriate romantic love story. However with the mature subject matter kids and teens may not enjoy the film.