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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