Color of Paradise, The

RATING: G

TIME: 90 minutes

STARRING: Mohsen Ramezani, Hossen

Mahjub & Salime Feizi

DIRECTOR: Majid Majidi

PRODUCER: Mehdi Karimi

WRITER: Majid Majidi

GENRE. Drama

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children & adults

SUMMARY: The Color of Paradise is a tragic drama from Iran about a bitter widower living in the mountains who sees his blind son as nothing but a burden. A very clean movie, this tragedy is lightened by the joy and compassion that the son and his godly grandmother bring to the story and by the hope, peace and life that springs from the light of God which shines mercifully down on them in two crucial moments.

CONTENT: Strong moral worldview with positive references to a personal, monotheistic God who is omnipresent, with some, implied, mild references to the Muslim faith, including a character holding prayer beads and a visit to a Muslim shrine of some kind, but nothing more than that; 2 mild profanities ("for G-d's sake"); intense scene where one person and a horse fall into raging rapids and another person jumps in to save the other person; no sex; no nudity; no alcohol use; no drug use; and, father mistreats his mother and his son and expresses doubts and complaints to his mother about God.

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