I can't really recommend it for a 9-year-old. This is a dramatic film about the price paid by one man and his family for his part in this piece of history. It isn't always pretty. To me, the scenes that took place in space were utterly amazing but to somebody raised on Star Wars, they would probably be cramped, dark and confusing.
I saw it at the AMC in Lessberg as I wasn't about to see it on a little screen up on a wall in Spanish Springs. Good projection (thought not as good as a Dolby Vision theater like the one in Altamonte) and good sound there. However, somebody fired up on commentary from the right, shouted out, "WHERE'S THE FLAG?" after Armstrong had been on the surface for less than 30 seconds. The idea that the film wasn't about American exceptionalism but was about one man was a bit lost on this gentleman, as was the fact that the flag wasn't planted until AFTER both astronauts had gotten out on the surface and had done a quick grab of some rocks and dust (in case they had to leave immediately). It's not like the flag wasn't shown in the film - it was. It just wasn't the center of the film. A more important item left behind (in terms of the dramatic nature of the film) was a baby bracelet. Of course, had the film been totally realistic about the flag, it would have shown it getting blown over by the launch of the ascent module of the LEM (which was why they started planting them further away from the craft on subsequent flights). And if they showed ANY of the flags planted by the astronauts as they actually are today, they would be blank white sheets of plastic (cloth flags wouldn't have done well in vacuum) as the color has long since been bleached out by the harsh solar radiation. Not perhaps what we would like to picture, but facts are facts.
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