Irish Wish | 2024 | TV-PG | – 3.3.3

Why is “Irish Wish” rated TV-PG? The TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board rating indicates that “this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, partial male nudity, discussions of secret love, a scuffle and a punch in the face that leaves a bruise, many arguments, several magical wishes causing reality to shift and time to be reversed, and some strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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While a woman (Lindsay Lohan) is heartbroken after her secret crush (Alexander Vlahos) decides to marry her best friend (Elizabeth Tan), she still agrees to be in the wedding party. However, she also makes a wish, and magically wakes up the next morning in the place of the bride that she envied. Also with Ed Speleers, Ayesha Curry, Jacinta Mulcahy, Jane Seymour and Matty McCabe. Directed by Janeen Damian. [Running Time: 1:33]

Irish Wish SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A man and a woman stare and smile at each other across a room, and the woman becomes another woman, who’s intended to marry the man; when the soon-to-be groom gets into bed with her as she sleeps (both are clothed) and touches her, she is startles awake and punches him in the face under the covers (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
► Two couples kiss briefly in a few scenes. A bride and groom kiss for a few seconds. A man caresses a woman’s hair on a patio and his fiancée sees this and becomes sad. A man sees another man talking to his fiancée and becomes upset briefly but says nothing.
► A woman enters a bathroom and sees a nude man from the waist up in a frontal view, in the shower with the door open; she yelps and covers her eyes, hands him a towel, and he puts it around his waist and legs below the frame. A few women wear knee-length or longer dresses that reveal bare shoulders. Several women wear scoop-neck dresses that reveal cleavage. A woman wears a robe that reveals her full bare legs to the top of the thighs. A woman wears silk shorts that are mid-thigh length in a couple of scenes. We see two photos of a man embracing a woman. A close-up of an old stone statue shows an armless woman with bare breasts (no nipples are evident).

Irish Wish VIOLENCE/GORE 3

 – A woman walks down a wedding aisle and announces that she does not love the groom; everyone present gasps, we hear murmuring and the groom becomes angry, belittles another man, lunges at him and they struggle and slap at each other many times until others pull them apart; a woman checks to see if one of the men is OK and then slaps him hard on the shoulder, the other man leaves the room, followed by the first woman, they argue briefly, he walks out, she follows, kisses him for several seconds, and he says goodbye and leaves as she sobs.
► A man gets into bed with a sleeping woman and touches her, she is startles awake and punches him in the face under the covers; they both shout, he holds a hand over his reddened eye and nose, and the next day he holds an ice pack over his eye that is bruised. A woman wakes up and screams because she is late for a flight and she pushes people out of the way at the airport, berates a clerk, and falls out of the frame as she trips over a bag; we later see her in a wheelchair in a hospital with a bandage on her forehead and a cast on her foot and ankle and in a later scene she is shown uninjured.
► At an airport luggage reclaim, a woman argues with a man and they pull apart a bag that spews clothing on the floor; she picks up a garment and it turns out to be the man’s boxer shorts and the man leaves with the clothing, they meet on a bus, argue briefly, and then argue briefly in a car. A man asks a woman to begin writing his next book for him, but she refuses and quits as his editor.
► Two men shoot arrows at targets and one arrow bounces off a statue, but no one is harmed. A woman throws a dart and it bounces off the wall, but no one is hit. A woman is accident-prone and falls down or breaks things several times, but no one is ever injured. She falls into an open convertible just stopping at a traffic light, falls off a bike into a wooden fence, and knocks over a couple of large vases that crash loudly to the floor. A man collides with a woman in a hallway and adjusts her fake eyelash for her.
► Three women take a cab that slams its brakes at a traffic light and they lurch forward, but no one is hurt. A woman is startled when her cell phone seems to lose signal. A woman snores loudly in bed in a couple of scenes. A crowd outside a theater shouts loudly for a celebrity author. A large tree is down across a road in a rainstorm, so a man and a woman drive to an inn where they stay in separate rooms, they push the car to start it the next day and the woman becomes covered in mud.
► A woman sits on a stone wishing chair and wishes to marry her secret love and a fairy wearing green and purple clothing appears and summons a strong wind causing the woman to fall back. A man tells a woman that a selfish, evil fairy lives at the bottom of an Irish lake and they laugh. A fairy icon winks and a woman screams and faints, but is unharmed and a priest says the icon is Saint Brigid, who is mischievous.
► A woman brushes her teeth and spits in a sink below the frame and we hear spitting but do not see goo.

Irish Wish LANGUAGE 3

 – 2 scatological terms, 3 mild obscenities, name-calling (crazy, silly, cheeky, horrible, bastard, evil fairy, swine, American woman, tourist trap), exclamations (what the…, whoo-hoo, wow, whoa), 2 religious exclamations (e.g. Holy Mother of God, Holy [scatological term deleted]). | profanity glossary |

Irish Wish SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman mentions that she takes glucosamine for arthritis. A close-up of a bar counter shows two hands mixing a cocktail and a man takes the drink and sips it, about 20 people sip champagne in a toast at a dinner and a server walks around with a bottle of the wine, a close-up at a wedding reception shows a champagne cork popping loudly and mist rising out of the bottle, two men in a couple of pub scenes hold mugs of stout and a few more mugs are seen on tables, a man and a woman at a pub order stout and wine and the woman tries the stout, a few people in the background of a pub scene hold glasses of stout, and several people at a family brunch have glasses of champagne and one person sips from her glass.

Irish Wish DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Catholicism, Irish culture, legends, saints, fairies, magic, fate, wishes, love, marriage, arrogance, selfishness, sadness, subjugation, sacrifice, women’s rights, independence, finding happiness.

Irish Wish MESSAGE

 – The thing or person you initially think you want may not be right for you.