New films from a family perspective

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A guide to movies from a family perspective:"Blindsight"-- Rated: PG.-- Suitable for: Tweens and older.-- What you should know: Six blind Tibetan teens attempt to scale the 23,000-foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest with a group that includes Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind climber to reach the summit of Everest, in 2001. Their story is remarkable and inspirational.-- Language: Mild.-- Sexual situations and nudity: None.-- Violence/scary situations: One 19-year-old has cigarette burns (not shown) on his skin, the apparent result of a couple who made a deal with his father and forced him to beg for money on the street. It's disturbing to hear attitudes about the blind in Tibet and when some of the climbers fall ill (although everyone recovers). References also are made to Weihenmayer losing his mother and his sight as a teen-ager.-- Drug or alcohol use: Nothing notable."Baby Mama"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Older teens and adults.-- What you should know: Tina Fey's character, who can't have kids herself, hires Amy Poehler's character to be her surrogate mother, but they're a yin-and-yang odd couple when they have to live together.-- Language: Some crude language and periodic use of relatively mild profanity.-- Sexual situations and nudity: None, but sexual situations are implicit throughout.-- Violence/scary situations: None.-- Drug or alcohol use: Drugs are referred to, but there is no on-screen use."The Forbidden Kingdom"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Tweens and older.-- What you should know: Michael Angarano is a Boston teen who is magically transported to ancient China, where he goes from being a kung-fu-movie lover to an actual kung-fu practitioner, thanks to his mismatched teachers played by Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Although Chan provides some comic relief, this is an action adventure spun out of the legend of the Monkey King and running 113 minutes.-- Language: One use of "Jesus" and a stronger version of "darn."-- Sexual situations and nudity: None.-- Violence/scary situations: More than you might expect, starting with Angarano's character being bullied. People are shot, shown hanging from a tree, run through with a sword and fall to their deaths or into a pit of fire. Also lots of martial-arts sparring.-- Drug or alcohol use: Chan's character consumes much wine."Under the Same Moon"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: Tweens and older, but be aware that the movie uses some subtitles.-- What you should know: The overwhelming, amorphous issue of illegal immigrants is processed through the story of one mother, undocumented and working in Los Angeles, and her 9-year-old boy, Carlitos, in Mexico. He decides to cross the border and find her in the States.-- Language: A handful or more of mild curses.-- Sexual situations and nudity: A couple of kisses.-- Violence/scary situations: Carlitos' grandmother, who has been his guardian, dies in her sleep. He tries to cross the border while hiding in a cramped space in an un-air-conditioned car. A man who appears to be a Good Samaritan turns out to have needle marks on his arm and tries to "sell" the boy for drugs. Illegal workers live in constant fear of immigration or police officers.-- Drug or alcohol use: An obvious drug user and dealer are shown, and some beer and other alcoholic drinks are served."Leatherheads"-- Rated: PG-13.-- Suitable for: 8- or 9-year-olds and up, although best for tweens and older.-- What you should know: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger and John Krasinski star in this comedy set in 1925 in the earliest, most raucous days of professional football.-- Language: Less than a dozen curses, some with God's name attached.-- Sexual situations and nudity: Tame; just a couple of kisses exchanged.-- Violence/scary situations: Punches and brawls, both on and off the football field. -- Drug or alcohol use: Beer, whiskey and the alcoholic contents of flasks are consumed.(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.shns.com.)