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The Thing with Feathers (2025)

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The Thing with Feathers (2025)

Overview

After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely, unpredictable, and uninvited houseguest.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

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Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate

Viewer Rating
5.4

Overview

After a tragic loss, a grieving father tries to raise his young sons whilst dealing with an unlikely, unpredictable, and uninvited houseguest.


Starring Cast


Where to watch

Apple TV logoApple TV
Google Play logoGoogle Play
Fandango
Powered byJustWatch

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film's core subject matter, focusing on personal grief, family trauma, and psychological unraveling through a fantastical metaphor, is consistently described as apolitical, lacking explicit partisan or ideological messaging.

The movie features a predominantly white cast in lead roles, though it includes visible diversity among supporting characters. Its narrative centers on a white male protagonist's experience of grief, without explicitly addressing or critiquing traditional identities or incorporating DEI themes into its central plot.

Secondary

The film's plot, character descriptions, and all available reviews and discussions indicate no presence of LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on a family's struggle with grief, personified by a crow, without any queer elements.

Based on available information, 'The Thing with Feathers' does not depict transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a widower's grief, personified by a crow, and no cast members or plot points suggest any gender or sexual transformation. Therefore, the overall portrayal is N/A.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film's characters, including Dad, Crow, and Mum, maintain the same genders as established in Max Porter's source novel. No character's on-screen gender differs from their canonical portrayal in the book.

The film adapts a novel where the main characters' race was not explicitly stated but implied to be white British. The casting of white British actors for these roles aligns with this implication, and new supporting characters of diverse backgrounds do not constitute a race swap of established characters.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.4

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
5.7
The Movie Database logo
6.5

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
4.6
Metacritic logo
4.8

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