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A Information-only rating: For all age groups. B Information-only rating: For adolescents 12 years and older. B-15 Information-only rating: Not recommended for children under 15. C Restrictive rating: For adults 18 and older. D Restrictive rating: Adult movies (legally prohibited to those under 18 years of age).
Despite this, an internal critic of the early workings of the ratings system is film critic and writer Stephen Farber, who was a CARA intern for six months during 1969 and 1970. In The Movie Ratings Game, [92] he documents a prejudice against sex in relation to violence.
A content rating (also known as maturity rating) [1] [2] rates the suitability of TV shows, movies, comic books, or video games to this primary targeted audience. [3] [4] [5] A content rating usually places a media source into one of a number of different categories, to show which age group is suitable to view media and entertainment.
In 1996, the MPA reworded the NC-17 rating to "No One 17 and Under Admitted", effectively raising the minimum age for admission from 17 to 18. [2] This list includes films that received—and were released with—an NC-17 rating; films that received it but had it rescinded before release are not included. Rescissions occur most often in the ...
As the rating increases pertaining to the age, the content matters generally get more intensive. These descriptors allow for 44 possible combinations for all the ratings total. [14] The "suggestive dialogue" descriptor is used for TV-PG and TV-14 rated programs only, but rarely TV-MA.
Before 2015, unlike the theatrical ratings, only three are applied to video releases and printed on labels: General Audience (G) for films previously rated G in cinemas, Parental Guidance (PG) for most PG and some R-13 or R-16 titles (with cuts for the R-ratings), and Restricted For Adults (R) for some R-13, many R-16, and most R-18 titles ...
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The Motion Picture Association film rating system assigns a PG-13 rating if the film contains the word used once and not in the context of sex. [8] The R rating is normally required, if the film contains more than one utterance or if the word is used in a sexual context. However, there are exceptions to the rule.