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The Sapphires (2012)

PG-13 (US) | Australia | English, Aboriginal languages, Vietnamese | 103 min

Directed by: Wayne Blair

1968 was the year that changed the world. And for four young Aboriginal sisters from a remote mission it was the year that would change their lives forever. Around the globe, there was protest and revolution in the streets. Indigenous Australians finally secured the right to vote. There were drugs and the shock of a brutal assassination. And there was Vietnam. The sisters--Cynthia, Gail, Julie, and Kay--are discovered by Dave, a very kind-hearted talent scout with very little rhythm but a great knowledge of soul music. Billed as Australia's answer to The Supremes, Dave secures the sisters their first true gig and flies them to Vietnam to sing for the American troops. Based on a true story, "The Sapphires" is a triumphant celebration of youthful emotion, family, and music.

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Cast & Crew

Wayne Blair

Director

Chris O'Dowd

Dave Lovelace

Deborah Mailman

Gail

Jessica Mauboy

Julie

Shari Sebbens

Kay

Tanika Lonesborough

Young Gail

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Release Date

France

(Cannes Film Festival)

2012-05-19

France

(Champs-Elysées Film Festival)

2012-06-06

France

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2012-08-08

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

The Sapphires

(Original title)

The Sapphires

Australia

Música da Alma

Brazil

Parent Guide

A young woman straddles a young man, they kiss passionately, the young man sucks the young woman's finger and they continue to kiss passionately; we later hear the young woman chide a different young man, saying that men were "lining up" to suck the ring off the young woman's finger.

A teen girl and a teen boy kiss passionately as the teen girl straddles him and the teen boy interrupts her to ask her to marry him.

A young man and a young woman are kissing passionately as the young woman's young adult sister tells the young woman to not kiss passionately so close to her.

A young woman kisses a man on the forehead, saying it would be a happy kiss from her mother, and then kisses the man passionately; they hold one another's faces and continue to kiss.

We see a man and a young woman kiss as the young woman performs on a stage in front of a crowd of people.

A young man and a young woman kiss.

A man is about to kiss a young woman when they are interrupted by an explosion (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).

A man asks a young woman if he can buy her a drink, the young woman giggles and he wraps his arms around her.

A young woman and a man dance arm-in-arm and we see them dancing, staring in each other's eyes.

A man sniffs a young woman's hair in a loving way.

A young woman stares longingly at a bare-chested young man and the young man admires her as she walks away.

A young woman pants sexually and acts like she is kissing in her sleep as another young woman (her sister) watches; the young woman shouts at the sleeping young woman to wake up, the sleeping young woman shouts that she was having "the best dream of her life" as the other young woman teases her for having a "dirty dream."

A man cups a mannequin's breasts and instructs a seamstress to make the dress for a young woman being measured to be "very sexy."

A man implies to a woman that he had sexually pleasured her when he says, "I made you feel like a lady of 50."

A young woman teases her cousin saying it does not matter what the young woman wears, since she "won't be wearing it long."

A man tells a young woman that she and her sisters better "shake their money makers."

We see women wearing bikinis dancing suggestively in a club.

We see a woman wearing a bikini dancing briefly.

We see men shirtless throughout the movie.

We briefly see two shirtless men as they box.

We see a man wake up in the back of a car wearing his brief-style underwear.

We see a young woman's bare shoulders as she showers.

We see a helicopter swoop into a war zone where a man and a group of young women are standing, unprotected; the man rushes to put the young women in a helicopter for safety as we see bullets whiz past them and a building on fire from an explosion; when another man rushes back out to save another girl, he sees a soldier hit by a bullet and fall to the ground in front of him (no blood is visible), and a man is struck by a bullet and he falls to the ground (no blood is visible; we later see the man recovering in the hospital).

Several armed insurgent soldiers threaten a group of young women and their adult male manager; one of the young women asks the manager if they should get out a handgun given to them for protection and he disregards the question; the young women are terrified until one of them speaks to the insurgents and they slowly lower their guns and allow them to pass.

Several young women are alarmed as an injured soldier lies on the floor of helicopter and a second soldier tells one of the young women to help the man; he shouts at a young woman and she pulls away when the soldier refuses the young woman's help.

A group of teen and young adult sisters (and one cousin) are disturbed as they drive through a war zone, and we see bullets flying and a dead man on the ground.

We see a group of injured young men in a hospital, including a young man with his arm in a sling and another young man with his head wrapped.

A hospital scene shows a young man with his face wrapped and there is blood on his bandage.

Two young women and a soldier walk through a hospital and we see a man in recovery with a black eye and his torso and arm wrapped.

A group of men chase a group of children, one of the men shakes another man and as we see this, we hear a young woman's voiceover explaining that government men had been seeking out children, specifically white-looking children.

Two young women slap one another angrily and we later see one of the young women with a split lip as she winces in pain when she tries to kiss a young man.

Two young women shout and slap one another until their older sister breaks up the fight and shouts at them.

A young woman slaps her teenage sister in the face repeatedly to get her to center herself and the young woman then pushes away a man's offer of a flask and rushes away.

A young woman weeps as she reads a letter from her suitor, who is presumed to have been killed during a firefight.

We see a young woman weeping and see what is implied to be a soldier's dead body covered by a tarp.

A group of young women watch in shock as they see television footage announcing that Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed.

A young woman comforts her sister, who is crying, worried that someone could "lob a hand grenade across the room."

A man warns a young woman that a woman might be Viet Cong and could throw a hand grenade across a bar.

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