It's a good life, but Alfredo's words haunt Salvatore until finally he leaves to pursue a filmmaking career. The patrons cheer at seeing on-screen kissing for the first time, free of censorship. When the Nuevo Cinema Paradiso opens, Salvatore runs the projector. A film reel catches fire one night, burning the theater and badly injuring Alfredo. But running a machine in the dark, alone, is no life for a boy, he tells him. In time Alfredo reluctantly teaches the boy how to operate the projector.

The projectionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret), tags the offensive footage for editing. In a small town, a priest sitting in the Cinema Paradiso rings a bell. When something precious is taken from us, we reach for whatever might fill the void it leaves, so altar boy Salvatore (Salvatore Cascio) finds a substitute for the father he lost to war at the movie theater in the Italian film CINEMA PARADISO. There is also some bullying - a young boy is slapped in the head and hit with a ruler by a teacher when he doesn't know the answer to a multiplication problem, and a young man is punched in the face by a bully while trying to woo a beautiful woman. A man is shown catching on fire in a projection booth and is rescued by a young boy who drags him down the stairs of the burning building. There is some profanity throughout ('s-t,' 'bitch'), and two kids smoke a cigarette. A man grabs a woman's breasts and starts to moan and grind his body into hers. Expect brief shots of exposed breasts in black-and-white movies. It's a charming tale of friendship and the love of movies that's the perfect introduction to foreign films for teens, despite some iffy scenes - including a scene where young teens are obviously (if not explicitly shown) masturbating in a theater to a Brigitte Bardot movie, and a man who spits on those below him while in the balcony of the theater eventually gets pelted in the face with feces. Parents need to know that Cinema Paradiso is a 1988 Italian coming-of-age movie in which a young Sicilian boy is taken under the wing of an older man who teaches him about the love of movies and helps him find his purpose in life.

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