Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.
This movie contains 13 potentially triggering events.
The foster parent is relatively abusive. She doesn’t let them keep anything nice, she talks to them like they’re vermin, and just generally neglects them.
Annie is tricked into getting in a car with a couple who are not her parents. They grab her to keep her inside the car and make her sad but she seems fine after they are arrested and everything is explained.
jamie foxx’s character spews mashed potatoes on a homeless man. as someone who gets triggered by v* it didn’t trigger me at all. they refer to it as “vomiting on a homeless man” later but he just spit it out on him. if you don’t wanna see it, skip the part after he starts eating the mashed potatoes.
The song "It's the Hard-Knock Life" does have the line "Santa Claus we never see Santa Claus, what's that? Who's he?" which could spoil him for some kids