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PG-13: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some Material May Be
Inappropriate For Children Under 13.
PG-13 is a sterner warning to parents to determine for themselves the
attendance in particular of their younger children as they might consid-
er some material not suited for them. Parents, by the rating, are alert-
ed to be very careful about viewing by their under-teenage children.
A PG-13 film is one which leaps beyond the boundaries of the PG rat-
ing in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, or other contents,
but does not quite fit within the restricted R category. Any drug use
content will initially require at least a PG-13 rating. In effect, the PG-13
cautions parents with more stringency than usual to give special atten-
tion to this film before they allow their 12-year olds and younger to see
it.
PG-13 places larger responsibilities on parents for their children’s
movie viewing. The rating system is not a surrogate parent, nor should
it be. It cannot, and should not, insert itself in family decisions that only
parents can, and should, make. Its purpose is to give prescreening
advance informational warnings, so that parents can form their own
judgments. PG-13 is designed to make these parental decisions easier
for films between PG and R.
R (Restricted viewing): Not for children under age 17. Strong elements
of sex and/or violence.
Requires Accompanying Parent Or Adult Guardian.The film definitely
contains some adult material. Parents are strongly urged to find out
more about the film before they allow their children to see it.
An R-rated film may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudi-
ty within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combi-
nation of some of the above, so that parents are counseled, in
advance, to take this advisory rating very seriously. Parents must find
out more about an R-rated movie before they allow their teenagers to
view it.
NC-17 (Restricted Viewing): Not for children under age 17 under any
circumstances. Strong sexual content.
This rating declares that this is a film that most parents will consider
patently too adult for their youngsters under 17. No children should
see the film. NC-17 does not necessarily mean “obscene or porno-
graphic” in the oft-accepted or legal meaning of those words. The rea-
sons for the application of an NC-17 rating can be violence or sex or
aberrational behavior or drug abuse or any other elements which,
when present, most parents would consider too strong and therefore
off-limits for viewing by their children.
X (Hard Core Films): Same as NC-17 rating.
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