A PG 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 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, 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 rating. More than brief nudity will require at least a PG rating, but such nudity in a PG rated motion picture generally will not be sexually oriented. There may be depictions of violence in a PG movie, but generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence.
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 if, based on a special vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most American parents would believe that a PG 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. 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. A trademark for a movie rating indicating that admission will be granted to persons of all ages but that parental guidance is suggested in the case of children under the age of Pg is an abbreviation for page.
Paying guest. A trademark for a movie rating indicating that admission will be granted to persons of all ages but that parental guidance is advised in the case of children. The definition of PG is a film rating by the Motion Picture Association of America that cautions parents that some content of the movie may be inappropriate for those under age Picogram s.
And in , the U. Supreme Court ruled that movies were not considered protected speech under the First Amendment and thus were subject to regulation. Hays didn't just lobby politicians on behalf of filmmakers; he also told the studios what was and was not considered acceptable content. Throughout the s, filmmakers grew bolder with their choice of subject matter. By today's standards, the occasional glimpse of a bare leg or a suggestive word seems tame, but in that era such behavior was scandalous.
Its mission was to ensure that the movies depicted "correct standards of life" and, studio executives hoped, to avoid the future threat of government censorship. That changed in when Hays hired Joseph I. Breen, a lobbyist with deep ties to the Catholic Church, to head the new Production Code Administration.
Going forward, every film had to be reviewed and rated to be released. Breen and his team took to their work with zest. For example, "Casablanca" had its famous ending scene altered to tone down the sexual tension between Humphrey Bogart's and Ingrid Bergman's characters. In the s, a handful of filmmakers circumvented Hollywood censors by releasing their films independently of the studio system.
Most notable was "The Outlaw," a film starring Jane Russell that gave ample screen time to her famous bosom. After battling censors for five years, director Howard Hughes finally persuaded United Artists to release the film, which was a box office smash.
Breen tightened the code's restrictions in , but its days were numbered. Hollywood continued to abide by the Motion Picture Production Code into the early s. But as the old studio system crumbled and cultural tastes changed, Hollywood realized that it needed a new way to rate films.
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