Unsung Hero | 2024 | PG | – 1.3.1

Why is “Unsung Hero” rated PG? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “thematic elements.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a couple of kisses between a husband and wife, a labor and delivery, discussions of having lost everything, discussions of the music industry, a family struggling to find and make money for food and other needs, a parent dying, many arguments, and some exclamations. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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Based on a true story: A family loses everything in Australia after a music deal goes bad and relocate to Nashville, Tennessee, where they try to recapture their dream. Also with Daisy Betts, Joel Smallbone, Kirrilee Berger, Jonathan Jackson, Lucas Black, Candace Cameron Bure, Paul Luke Bonenfant, Diesel La Torraca, JJ Pantano, Tenz McCall, Angus K. Caldwell, Hillary Scott, Lance E. Nichols, Roslyn Gentle and Terry O’Quinn. Directed by Richard L. Ramsey & Joel Smallbone. [Running Time: 1:52]

Unsung Hero SEX/NUDITY 1

 – A husband and his wife kiss. A husband kisses his wife on the forehead.
► A woman tells her husband that she is pregnant with their 7th child and we see her in labor and during delivery later (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).

Unsung Hero VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A woman stands with her six children in a border control office as officers search her suitcases, her young son cries and an officer says that he will separate them if the woman can’t keep them in order; the woman yells at her son to stop crying. A wife cries and screams into a pillow when her husband tells her that a job has fallen through.
► A woman moans and holds her abdomen indicating that she is going into labor; we see her in the hospital pushing and yelling until she delivers and we see the newborn with a bit of goo as the woman loses consciousness, her lips turn blue and the medical team rushes around her (we understand that she is hemorrhaging); we see her recovering later.
► A man tells another man to “Just back off.” A husband and wife argue bitterly and the woman slaps the man in the face and tells him to leave when he tells his teen daughter, “You will never be enough.” A teen girl pleads with her father to speak to a man that has a record label to arrange an audition for her; he yells at her saying that he will not do it and she storms out. A man gets a phone call that his father has died and he collapses on the floor when he gets a call that a record deal has fallen through.
► A husband tells his wife that he is going to lose everything after a deal falls through. A young boy asks his mother why his father is working all the time and she explains that he is making sacrifices to follow his dream. A wife tells her husband that she is pregnant with their 7th child after he has just learned that he is going to lose everything over a bad business deal; the man looks panicked. A husband and his wife argue over the path they should take to rebuild their home and family. We see a foreclosure sign in the yard of a house. A husband and his wife discuss homeschooling their children. A man is concerned about his teen daughter entering the music business and says that he doesn’t want to “throw her to the wolves.” A man questions why his teen daughter is gesturing with her hands while singing and says, “Move like a normal person.”
► A man negotiates with a hospital representative to lower a substantial bill after the birth of his child. A family arrives at a rental house and we see that it is unfurnished and they cannot afford to buy furniture so they sleep on the floor. A family misses a connecting flight and there is not another for three days. An airplane bounces a bit during turbulence. A woman takes her children to a park where they pretend to be pirates and they throw pretend torches on the ship to burn it.
► We understand that a woman had complications in a previous pregnancy and her husband is concerned when she becomes pregnant again. A woman rushes to the bathroom on a plane and vomits in the toilet from either motion sickness or morning sickness; we hear retching and coughing and do not see goo. A man scrubs a toilet in another man’s house.

Unsung Hero LANGUAGE 1

 – Implied anatomical terms (several references to a family’s last name being Smallbone), name-calling (renegade, you’re just his maid), exclamations (donkeys age, wow, fuller than a tic on a coonhound, so wrong, beggars can’t be choosers), 8 religious exclamations (e.g. thank God, wish to God, God makes everything beautiful, for Rebecca and Jesus, God shaped hole inside, God created man, man separated from God because of sin, a family prays in many scenes for help from God for things that they need). | profanity glossary |

Unsung Hero SUBSTANCE USE

 – People drink what looks like champagne at a birthday party.

Unsung Hero DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Miracles, migration, mothers, the power of faith and family, self-doubt, optimism, risk, pride, humiliation, pity, dashed dreams, professional failure, sentiment, death of a parent, adventure.

Unsung Hero MESSAGE

 – Giving up should never be an option.

(Note: A short animation prior to the feature includes many references to God, Jesus and the power of faith, as well as a character leading the movie audience in prayer. The animation shows two characters stranded when they find a bridge out and cannot drive across a river; one character (a dog) tries many ways to get across using a glider strapped to its back, a space suit filled with helium that pops and falls to the ground, and it holds onto a loaf of bread as many birds lift it off the ground until the bread is gone and the dog is dropped into water below (we see the dog with bandages on its legs and head later). A lightning bolt hits a tree that falls across a broken bridge and a van drives across safely. A man describes humans having fallen short of the goal of perfection because of sin.)