Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Austin Abrams |
| Director |
Marc Turtletaub |
| Screenplay | Polly Mann, Oren Moverman, from the screenplay by Natalia Smirnoff |
| Music | Dustin O'Halloran |
| Cinematography | Christopher Norr |
| Editing | Catherine Haight |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Big Beach Films, Rosto, Olive Productions |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Moderate Impact and Fairly Frequent. Crude language is used in casual conversation or for moments of frustration. It is strongly disapproved of. However, this language is not recommended for impressionable children who are not cognitively developed enough and may try to emulate it or want to normalise language of this nature. |
| Nudity | Low and infrequent there is one fleeting moment of an art-work that has nudity on it. |
| Sex | None (sic) |
| Violence | Low and infrequent violence is displayed mainly in an emotional context between husband and wife but may be distrubing or distressing to much younger viewers. |
| Prejudice | Frequent Mild impact Prejudice deals with issues of gender discrimination seeing women as sterotypes in the home. This may be distressing, harmful, upsetting or inappropriate for impressionable younger children. |
| Blasphemy | Blasphemy is Low impact and Infrequent and occurs by way of swear words or referring to icons or religious figures that might be offensive to certain religions. This is not suitable for younger children as they may find it harmful, disturbing or distressing. |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | Mature and complex themes in this film explore a mature, subservient, unhappy and sheltered woman with upper teenage boys, bored with he life as a housewife, cook, and church going wife. She finds a talent for puzzles and that she’s really good at it. She explores further and finds that her passion extends to more than just the Puzzle competition with her interesting and unusual Iranian puzzle partner. Torn between he family, new-found passion for life and finding her own personal freedom, she must choose how to manage the challenges of her new identity. |
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| R: Restricted | Rated R for language |
| Runtime | 103 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
| Suggested age limit 15 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
Violence |
Sex |
Language |
| Consumerism |
Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Metacritic.com 36 critics | 13 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 120 critics | 14 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer  Puzzle transcends its quirky premise with honest emotion -- and Kelly Macdonald, whose nicely understated performance proves she’s too often underutilized. | 17 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 14 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona Lovely personal empowerment story has some language. | 20 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 10 users | 17 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 572 users | 15 | |
| IMDB 1645 Netizens | 14 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 14 | |
Average .. 77% | 15 | |