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"HANNA"
(2011) (Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana) (PG-13)


Alcohol/Drugs Mild
Blood/Gross Stuff Heavy
Disrespectful/Bad Attitude Extreme
Frightening/Tense Scenes Moderate
Gun/Weapons Extreme
Imitative Behavior Heavy
Jump Scenes Mild
Music (Scary/Tense) Heavy
Music (Inappropriate) None
Profanity Heavy
Sex/Nudity Heavy
Smoking Minor
Tense Family Scenes Heavy
Topics to Talk About Heavy
Violence Extreme


QUICK TAKE:
Action: A teen must use her years of training to survive attempts on her life as she tries to reunite with her father.
PLOT:
Hanna (SAOIRSE RONAN) is a 16-year-old girl living a survivalist's life in the snowy Arctic circle with her father, Erik (ERIC BANA). He's trained her how to hunt and defend herself, along with a number of languages and other education. All of that's left her eager for more in her life and thus he begrudgingly gives her that opportunity, along with the related and deadly perils that accompany it.

With the throwing of a switch on a transponder that alerts others to their remote and, until now, hidden location, their lives are forever changed, with new plans on reuniting at a specific spot in Germany in the near future. After he leaves, she's captured by commandos who work for Marissa (CATE BLANCHETT), a government operative who's quite interested in the girl, what with her being something of a genetic experiment to create the perfect warrior.

Those physical abilities and her training allow her to escape the government facility that she soon learns is in Morocco. Needing means to get farther away, she ends up traveling with snarky teenager Sophie (JESSICA BARDEN), her younger brother Miles (ALDO MALAND) and their parents, Rachel (OLIVIA WILLIAMS) and Sebastian (JASON FLEMYNG), all of whom are vacationing and traveling abroad in an RV.

With Marissa enlisting the aid of goons such as Lewis (JOHN MacMILLIAN) and Isaacs (TOM HOLLANDER) to find her, Hanna has to use every trick, skill and bit of knowledge to avoid or defeat them, all as she tries to get to and meet her father at their predetermined rendezvous point.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?
Those into action films featuring a girl as a killer will likely be drawn to it, as might anyone who's a fan of someone in the cast.
WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13
For intense sequences of violence and action, some sexual material and language.


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