8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Animation, Comedy, Drama • 2016 • 66 min • Teen (13+)
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
Overview
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Starring Cast
Gaspard Schlatter • Sixtine Murat • Paulin Jaccoud
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
8.5
Overview
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Starring Cast
Gaspard Schlatter • Sixtine Murat • Paulin Jaccoud
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film explores the emotional journey of orphaned children navigating trauma and the foster care system. It emphasizes universal themes of resilience, the search for belonging, and the formation of new, loving family bonds, without aligning with specific political ideologies.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The film employs traditional casting, featuring European voice actors for its characters. Its narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, focusing on universal themes of childhood and resilience rather than explicit DEI critique.
Secondary
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The film strongly endorses the concept of chosen family and alternative family structures, portraying a foster home as a nurturing environment where children find love and stability after experiencing trauma from their biological families.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative centers on the experiences of orphaned children forming bonds and navigating their new lives. The portrayal of LGBTQ+ elements is absent from the film's content.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film "My Life as a Zucchini" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its narrative centers on the emotional journey of children in an orphanage, dealing with their past traumas and forming new bonds. The story does not include elements related to transgender identity or experiences.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The film adapts the novel "Autobiographie d'une Courgette." All main characters retain their established genders from the source material, with no instances of gender swapping.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The animated film "My Life as a Zucchini" adapts a French novel. The characters, including the protagonist Icare, are depicted as white children, consistent with the source material. No character established as one race in the novel is portrayed as a different race in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.8
7.8
Critic Ratings
9.9
8.5
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