Lady Jan rates Bridge to Terabithia

I recently went to see the Bridge to Terabithia

with my daughter and her friend and of course my husband.

This is not a move like Alice through the looking glass, or a trip to Narnia.

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No.

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This a movie made from a book about two lonely kids who make friends and invent a world that comes from the imagination.

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Jess is the only boy of five kids the rest are all girls, he even shares a room with his five year old sister, and the baby (sister). He draws all the time, he's the artist.

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Leslie is the new kids, and she runs very fast and beats Jess on the first day they meat during a race. But Leslie is a writer and has quite the imagination and she writes and tells wonderfully imaginative stories that come alive in Jess's mind.

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It takes a while for the kids to make friends--then they are fast friends.

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But it is not a whole complete world 'accent' the world of the imagination.

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They use the game of theirs to empower themselves, and to escape from there daily trials at home and at school. and Bullies.

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Uh-hum, and there is a bully named Janice? Excuse me? That's not right.

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They find a place behind the land that Jesse's family owns that you have to cross a deep creek to get too, and once there it becomes Terabithia to them. They fix an old tree house make up stories, and act them out.

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Until one them dies.

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Sorry, but if you go to this movie I think you should be warned that there is a death.

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Luckily it happens off camera and the surviving child doesn't see it, but it was sad really really sad and I and my party sat there and cried right through the rest of the movie.

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Then the survivor (I'm not saying who it is I don't want to spoil the ending), but that person goes through the three phases of loss:

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Disbelief

Anger

Then finally acceptance

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Then the survivor builds a bridge (a real one) and shares this make believe world with another.

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This Movie gets a Lady Jan rating of C+

Because of the death of a child.

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And because of that death.

I also don't think this is suitable

movie for children under the age

of ten.