7.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Overview
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.6
Overview
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central themes of childhood friendship, imagination, and coping with grief are universal human experiences that do not align with a specific political ideology, and its solutions are personal and interpersonal rather than systemic or political.
The movie features primarily traditional casting without explicit race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative focuses on universal themes and does not include critical portrayals of traditional identities or explicit DEI themes.
Secondary
The film portrays Christianity as a source of comfort and moral guidance, particularly when Jesse's father uses Christian concepts of heaven to help his son cope with Leslie's death. It highlights faith as a supportive framework for understanding loss.
Bridge to Terabithia primarily explores themes of friendship, imagination, and coping with loss through the bond between Jesse and Leslie. The movie does not include any explicit or implicit LGBTQ+ characters or storylines, leading to no depiction to evaluate within the scope of this framework.
Bridge to Terabithia does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The story centers on the friendship between two children and their imaginative world, exploring themes of loss and coping with tragedy.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 2007 film adaptation of "Bridge to Terabithia" faithfully portrays the genders of all established characters from Katherine Paterson's original novel. No characters who were canonically male or female in the source material are depicted as a different gender in the movie.
The 2007 film adaptation of "Bridge to Terabithia" features characters whose on-screen portrayals align with their established racial depictions in the original novel. No major character canonically established as one race was depicted as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.3
Critic Ratings
8.5
7.4
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