Penguin Bloom

IMDb Rating

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A boy vomits all over the bathroom floor. The act is not seen on screen, but you clearly see vomit all over the floor.

"S" word in the first 10 minutes

Sam is depressed throughout the first act of the movie as she can't accept her injury and how it has changed her outlook on her life and family

Commonsensemedia Rating

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The film is a story of a family overcoming a personal tragedy and resulting trauma through compassion, courage, and healing.

Cam steps in to care for his wife and three sons after her disabling accident, supporting her emotionally as well as physically. He demonstrates patience and compassion. The young sons make an effort to help more as well, though they're also grappling with grief and fear, and the older son blames himself for what happened. Friends and family members sometimes don't know how to behave around Sam. She recoils into her grief, anger, and pain at first, eventually finding the inner strength to face those feelings and envision a new future.

When a woman falls over the side of a building, viewers hear her scream and see her body on the concrete below with a pool of blood around her head. Later she's shown being put in an ambulance, groaning in pain. She's then confined to a wheelchair and occasionally struggles to pull herself out of bed or off the floor. When she gets angry, she breaks things in the house. When the kids eat bad oysters, they vomit all over the bathroom, and the dad slips in it. Two birds attack the family's pet bird and it disappears. The boys skateboard on the house's roof and jump off it onto a trampoline.

As Cam helps Sam bathe and dress, she's shown in her underwear and naked from the waist up from behind. Talk of a catheter. A married couple kisses.

"S--t," "poo," "farts," "spew," "spastic," "jeez."

Characters drink wine and talk about giving up drinking temporarily. Sam accuses her mom of being "drunk and emotional" at a lunch.