What is What Life Took From Me about?
The beautiful young Montserrat is forced to marry a man she does not love in order to save her family from ruin and maintain their social standing.
What Life Took From Me (2013)
A melancholy Mexican drama intimately explores romantic entanglements with a measured, unfolding pace.
Intimate. A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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What Life Took From Me parents guide
For a TV-PG, this one goes further: some innuendo or implied sex. Beyond that, mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 10. Rated TV-PG.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byCaridad Bravo Adams
StarringAngelique Boyer, Sebastián Rulli, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Daniela Castro, Sergio Sendel, Grettell Valdéz
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