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  • Cameron Diaz Movie Wins a PG-13 Rating in Appeal

    The Classification and Ratings Administration (CARA) of the Motion Picture Association of America has just granted the new Cameron Diaz romantic comedy The Other Woman a PG-13 rating. The film was originally labelled as R-rated for sexual content, but the 20th Century Fox-produced movie was given a more teen-friendly rating during a hearing on Thursday. No cuts to The Other Woman were necessary.

    Diaz was on hand at the rating appeals inquest in Los Angeles on Thursday, along with 20th Century Fox president of production Emma Watts. CARA’s Classification and Rating Appeals Board chairman Joan Graves represented the ratings board, and the PG-13 designation came just in time for the April 25th release of The Other Woman.

    Since the late 1990’s, the MPAA has recognized the following film ratings:

    G – General Audiences: All ages admitted. This movie contains nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children. Such films may contain only mild violence or crude humor, and may have no nudity, sex, drugs or coarse (as distinct from impolite) language.

    PG – Parental Guidance Suggested: Some material may not be suitable for children. Parents are urged to give parental guidance as the motion picture contains some material that parents might not find suitable for their pre-teenagers.

    PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned: Parents are urged to be cautious as the motion picture contains some material that parents might consider inappropriate for children under 13 years.

    R – Restricted: People under 17 years may only be admitted if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

    NC-17 – Adults Only: This film is exclusively adult and people under 18 are not admitted.

    Alongside Diaz, the Nick Cassavetes-directed The Other Woman stars Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Kinney. The plot concerns three women uniting to exact revenge on a philandering man they had all been involved with.

    Here is the trailer:

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  • PG-13 Gunplay Way Up Since The 80s

    PG-13 Gunplay Way Up Since The 80s

    Since the PG-13 rating was introduced in the mid-80s, the movies carrying the rating have changed substantially. PG-13 used to indicate non-family flicks that weren’t quite adult enough to deserve an R rating. Now, the rating is filled with movies made to appeal to young teens or movies that studios have censored down from an R rating to gain a wider audience.

    With those changes has come a variety of tropes, not the least of which is gunplay. A new study published today in the journal Pediatrics has shown that modern PG-13 movies now have more than three times the gun violence of PG-13 movies in 1985.

    “It’s shocking how gun use has skyrocketed in movies that are often marketed directly at the teen audience,” said Brad Bushman, co-author of the study and a communications and psychology professor at Ohio State University. “You have to wonder why we are seeing this surge in gun violence in PG-13 movies, when it isn’t appearing in G, PG and R-rated films.”

    Bushman and his colleagues looked at 915 movies that were part of the 30 top-grossing movies from 1950 to 2012. They split the movies into five-minute segments and recorded instances of violence in the movies. Since the PG-13 rating was introduced, gun violence in PG-13 movies has steadily increased while gun violence in G, PG, and R-rated movies has stayed relatively constant. R-rated movies were shown to have an averagy of 1.54 five-minute segments of gun violence per hour.

    The rise in PG-13 gunplay isn’t necessarily related to the popularity of guns in U.S. teen culture. Instead, the study’s authors believe that it could be related to the way R ratings are determined in the U.S., where sex or nudity is more likely to result in an R rating than violence.

    “By the standards of the MPAA, PG-13 movies shouldn’t have as much violence as R-rated movies, but they clearly do,” said Bushman. “It appears sex scenes are more likely to result in an R rating than scenes of violence.

    “”Based on what researchers have found, it is not good for teens to be viewing this much gun violence in films.”