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AGE OF CONSENT (1969)
Age of Consent is a 1969 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michael Powell.
A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse.
A New York artist (James Mason) goes to an island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef and hires a girl (Helen Mirren) to be his model.
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Director: Michael Powell
Producer: James Mason, Michael Powell
Release Date (Theaters): May 14, 1969 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 6, 2009
Runtime: 1h 39m
age of consent
age of consent - n
the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union
The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. Consequently, an adult who engages in sexual activity with a person younger than the age of consent is unable to legally claim that the sexual activity was consensual, and such sexual activity may be considered child sexual abuse or statutory rape. The person below the minimum age is considered the victim, and their sex partner the offender, although some jurisdictions provide exceptions through "Romeo and Juliet laws" if one or both participants are underage, and are close in age.