To ask for film help within the hour?

The later films are definitely darker and explore more adult themes. When watching these As a 45 year old I don’t feel like I’m watching a film that is just for children, like Moana or Frozen.

It was just a suggestion which OP is entitled to say thanks but no thanks. No need for the ridicule really

I agree with this. The green mile and Philadelphia affected me massively as a young teen. Jaws and Alien didn't at all.

I've watched it with DCs and it's a really good one for early teens - just squishy and scary enough, but really funny and exciting too. It's also a very good natured film - the characters are all likable and there's no sense of people just waiting around to be killed.

ODFOD.

And also has horrific scenes of the death penalty being botched. If my 12 year old watched this and WASN'T disturbed by it I would be concerned! No, it's not a horror, but it's very adult.

Napoleon Dynamite or The Peanut Butter Falcon were hits here.

I agree with everyone who thinks the Green Mile is unsuitable for an 11 year old. I'm not sure how recently the people suggesting it have seen it, but a lot of the themes are very troubling even for an adult.

Marley and Me made me ugly cry. Tears pouring down my face for a significant portion of that film!

The Green Mile centres around the rape and murder of two little girls. I really think for that reason alone, it's not suitable for an 11 year old.

There is a film with Will Smith in called Concussion if you’ve not seen it. It’s a 12A rating. It’s based on a true story of the doctor who made the connection between dementia and other serious conditions with the constant concussions suffered by NFL footballers, then how he was silenced by the NFL.

I don’t like NFL and it took a lot of persuasion to watch but I found it gripping, a really interesting story.

Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica Chastain (Rated 15) based on the hunt to find Osama Bin Laden and the intelligence officer who put the pieces together is also brilliant, there is a bit of swearing in it but it is very good, not sure whether it might be a bit too mature but it’s really interesting.

Yeah, I sometimes watch children's films as an adult too, but I wouldn't recommend Frozen or Moana to the OP.

She said: "My son is 11, he's mature, and he's increasingly keen to watch more adult style films."

Harry Potter is a children's book and film series about a boy wizard which most kids will have seen by age 11. It's a stupid suggestion that doesn't fit the OP's criteria.

Hatchi was real. Why shouldn't people watch it? If we are going to continue to perpetuate animals for pleasure, why shouldn't they be celebrated? I'm not having a go at you, but people should bloody watch it and realise that animals are not ours for the taking - fuck breeding of any animals!!!

@BettyBardMacDonald my DD has loved Julie & Julia since she was 10 or so, we watched it again recently, it's one of our go to feel good films. DD is 21 now.
Anyone traumatised by sad dog films, NEVER watch Hatchi, I was traumatised

Master and Commander is great. Hunt for Red October, the Jason Bourne films are too.

We’ve recently watched Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrmann) Henry V (Kenneth Branagh) The Truman Show, and Are You there God, It’s me Margaret with our similarly aged son.

We will watch films and skip through a few scenes if it’s something we don’t feel is suitable or the children aren’t ready for.

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We've just watched The Greatest Beer Run Ever on Apple TV. Enjoyable, emotional & true story x

I agree; it's as though people are just blurting out their favorite films without actually pondering the OPs question.

I mean, how many 10-year-olds want to watch a film about Julia Child?!

@FloatyBoaty I do not think kids should be shown deeply unsuitable material at all, and as you say, that is subjective. I don't think there is anything unsuitable about The Green Mile, other than an opportunity to talk about why killing animals for fun isn't acceptable and that the death penalty certainly isn't. Whilst it is uncomfortable, it certainly isn't graphic.

I accidentally stumbled in on my parents watching The Shining when I was a kid, my mum was mortified. It was the scene where the twins are stood there one minute and then next they are butchered meat.

It wasn't discussed further apart from my mum checking in.

I def felt like I’d fucked up with that one. Why it’s a PG I will never understand.

When I went to see the Bucket List at the cinema, I cried so hard a man in front came to check if I was okay (was trying to be silent but did the gasp …) in the end I had to just leave the cinema. 😂 for the fucking BUCKET LIST.

I watched Marley and Me at work with colleagues. I was trying to do silent crying, you know when you hold your breath, and then all of a sudden I had to do a massive intake of breath and just carried on crying. Marley and Me fucked me over more than A Nightmare on Elm Street ever did.

I'm still traumatised by Lassie come home.

Im not arguing in bad faith here - I’m genuinely interested in your perspective… but do you really think it’s okay to show kids deeply unsuitable material, as long as it’s balanced out with kind, nice things? Do you think 11 year old brains are equipped to prioritise remembering those quite sophisticated thematic connections, over the more shocking, visually striking scenes? Because I don’t, but I’m interested to hear what you think.

I thought I was watching a cute dog film when I put on 8 Below for me and the kids. At the end, I don’t know who of us was more traumatised 😂. My dd still reminds me years later!

@FloatyBoaty no I'm not suggesting that at all. Like you said, it is subjective. You do paint The Green Mile the horror that it isn't though. If that's your take, that is cool, but don't forget about the kind magic.