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PG—Parental Guidance Suggested. Some Material May Not Be
Suitable For Children. A PG-rated motion picture should be investigated
by parents before they let their younger children attend. The PG rating
indicates, in the view of the Rating Board, that parents may consider some
material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that
decision. The more mature themes in some PG-rated motion pictures may
call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some
depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so
intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the
suggestion of parental guidance. There is no drug use content in a PG-rated
motion picture
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PG-13—Parents Strongly Cautioned. Some Material May Be
Inappropriate For Children Under 13. A PG-13 rating is a sterner warning
by the Rating Board to parents to determine whether their children under
age 13 should view the motion picture, as some material might not be suited
for them. A PG-13 motion picture may go beyond the PG rating in theme,
violence, nudity, sensuality, language, adult activities or other elements, but
does not reach the restricted R category. The theme of the motion picture by
itself will not result in a rating greater than PG-13, although depictions of
activities related to a mature theme may result in a restricted rating for the
motion picture. Any drug use will initially require at least a PG-13 rating.
More than brief nudity will require at least a PG-13 rating, but such nudity
in a PG-13 rated motion picture generally will not be sexually oriented.
There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but of the harsher
sexually-derived words, though only as an expletive, initally requires at
least a PG-13 rating. More than one such expletive requires an R rating, as
must even one of those words used in a sexual context. The Rating Board
nevertheless may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if, based on a special
vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents
would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate because of the context or
manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words in the
motion picture is inconspicuous.
R—Restricted. Children Under 17 Require Accompanying Parent or Adult
Guardian. An R-rated motion picture, in the view of the Rating Board,
contains some adult material. An R-rated motion picture may include adult
themes, adult activity, hard language, intense or persistent violence,
sexually-oriented nudity, drug abuse or other elements, so that parents are
counseled to take this rating very seriously. Children under 17 are not
allowed to attend R-rated motion pictures unaccompanied by a parent or
adult guardian. Parents are strongly urged to find out more about R-rated
motion pictures in determining their suitability for their children. Generally,
it is not appropriate for parents to bring their young children with them to R-
rated motion pictures.
NC-17—No One 17 and Under Admitted. An NC-17 rated motion picture
is one that, in the view of the Rating Board, most parents would consider
patently too adult for their children 17 and under. No children will be
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