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MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Ratings System

G – General Audience

This is a flm which contains nothing which would, in the view of the MPAA Rating Board, be offensive to parents whose younger children view the flm.

PG – Parental Guidance Suggested The theme of a PG-rated flm may itself call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity in these flms. There may be some 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 flm.

PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned A PG-13 flm is one which, in the view of the MPAA Rating Board, leaps beyond the boundaries of the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, or other contents, but does not quite ft within the restricted R category. Any drug use content will initially require at least a PG-13 rating.

R – Restricted

An R-rated flm may include hard language, or tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes, or drug abuse or other elements, or a combination of some of the above, so that parents are counseled to take this advisory rating very seriously.

NC-17 – No Children 17 or Under

NC-17 does not necessarily mean “obscene or pornographic” in the often accepted or legal meaning of those words. The MPAA Review Board does not and cannot mark flms with those words. These are legal terms and for courts to decide. The reasons 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.

For more information on the MPAA or the MPAA ratings system, please visit www.mpaa.com/movieratings.

Movie Ratings