ARd for nonPG language
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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.
If a film uses "one of the harsher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually"]sexually derived words" (such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck"]fuck) one to four times, it is routine today for the film to receive a PG-13 rating, provided that the word is used as an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive"]expletive and not with a sexual meaning (this was mentioned in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Cool"]Be Cool, when Chili Palmer complains about the movie industry. Fuck is said twice in that scene with many other uses of coarse language, giving the movie a PG-13). Both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_School"]Back to School and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_from_Her"]Away from Her contain four uses of "fuck" in non-sexual context. An example of a film that might suggest this criterion is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Guffman"]Waiting for Guffman, which contains mostly PG-13 content, yet is rated R (brief strong language) because a man auditioning for a role uses fuck in a sexual context while quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_Bull"]Raging Bull (the only time it is spoken in the movie). Also, some films are rated R but contain minimal use of the word, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_3:_Rise_of_the_Machines"]Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Lola_Run"]Run Lola Run, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_Minutes"]88 Minutes, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost/Nixon_%28film%29"]Frost/Nixon. Exceptions may be allowed, "by a special vote of the ratings board" where the board feels such an exception would better reflect the sensibilities of American parents. A couple of exceptions were noted: rare films such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_by_Suspicion"]Guilty by Suspicion were allowed as many as nine uses of the word; probably because of the precedent set in the 1970s by politically important films such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_President%27s_Men_%28film%29"]All the President's Men. All the President's Men was once rated R but then re-rated PG on appeal. It is a common misconception that if a movie uses fuck in a nonsexual context more than once, it will automatically receive an R rating. In reality, PG-13 movies are routinely allowed two or three uses. But there have been two extreme circumstances so far: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunner_Palace"]Gunner Palace has 42 uses of the word, 2 used sexually,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPAA_film_rating_system#cite_note-22"][23] and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hip_Hop_Project&action=edit&redlink=1"]The Hip Hop Project has 17 uses. Both films were rated PG-13 on appeal from an R rating. Precedent for this dates back to the early days of the system, in which an independent film called "Saturday Morning" (a documentary including interviews with youth) was allowed many extra uses of the word to accommodate its documentary nature without restricting its primary audience. (See Farber's book, described below, for documentation of the "Saturday Morning" fact.)
