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FLIRTING

What You Need To Know:

FLIRTING is a surprisingly intelligent, small-scale Australian film depicting an interracial romance between an intellectual misfit and a beautiful Ugandan student attending exclusive boarding schools in 1965. The film handles their relationship with considerable finesse, but stumbles in its uniform depiction of adults as stupid and cruel, as well as its assumption that affection must progress inevitably to intercourse.

Content:

(H, L, SS, N) A humanistic theme complete with three obscenities and some raunchy banter; brief male nudity in shower scene; extended sequence involving fondling & sexual immorality implied; depiction of virtually all authority figures as cruel, incompetent, or foolish; and, drinking and smoking.

More Detail:

FLIRTING is a surprisingly intelligent, small-scale Australian film depicting an interracial romance between an intellectual misfit, and a beautiful Ugandan student attending exclusive Australian boarding schools in 1965. In the film, St. Alban’s is a boy’s boarding school built near a scenic lake in Australia. For Danny, the intellectual son of a rural innkeeper, this environment is relentlessly hostile. Across the lake at Circencester Ladies’ College, a beautiful new arrival from Uganda, Thandiwe Adjewa, is greeted by sophisticated racism. Eventually, Danny and Thandiwe meet in an interscholastic debate. They realize they are kindred spirits, outsiders who must both cope with insensitive adults, claustrophobic rules and venomous student adversaries.

Much of FLIRTING depicts very skillfully the tentative attraction, temporary estrangement and then full-on passion for one another experienced by these students. Most of the acting, and all of the cinematography, are excellent. Unfortunately, the film depicts all adults as stupid or cruel and shows Danny and Thandiwe progressing to a sexual encounter (preceded by a rather detailed scene of fondling) just prior to her departure for Uganda. We can only pray that some day a filmmaker will have the maturity to depict everyone in a mixture of teenagers and grown-ups with care and intelligence, and the courage to show that romance, even in troubled or changing times, can flourish without sex.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.