Cinderella

Movie · 1950

This beloved Disney animated classic is a warm, musical fairy tale with gorgeous hand-drawn animation and a hopeful heroine. The main things to know about are some emotionally intense scenes of bullying by the stepfamily and a few tense chase sequences involving the cat Lucifer and the mice.

Most children 4 and up will enjoy this comfortably; especially sensitive under-4s may need a snuggle during the stepfamily scenes.

Scary imageryPeril & tensionViolenceLoss & griefBig emotionsLanguageBehavior modeledLoud or startling soundsRomance & innuendoOld-school gender rolesConsumerism & toy hype

If you’d rather skip

Loss & griefearly in the filmMild

Opening narration describes the deaths of Cinderella's mother and father; brief but may prompt questions from young children about parental loss.

Big emotionsthroughout the first and second actsModerate

The stepmother and stepsisters repeatedly belittle and order Cinderella around; this sustained emotional cruelty is the most potentially upsetting content in the film for sensitive children.

Peril & tensionthroughout the filmMild

The cat Lucifer repeatedly stalks and chases the mice in several extended sequences; some young children find these genuinely frightening.

4 more moments are in the full report. See all of them, checked against your own family’s settings, in Little Longer.