Movie Ratings - Pioneer Digital TV User Manual

Movie Ratings

MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Ratings System
offensive to parents whose younger children view the film.
in these films. 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 film.
boundaries of the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language,
or other contents, but does not quite fit within the restricted R category.
Any drug use content will initially require at least a PG-13 rating.
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.
meaning of those words. The MPAA Review Board does not and cannot
mark films 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.
G – General Audience
This is a film which contains nothing which
would, in the view of the MPAA Rating Board, be
PG – Parental Guidance Suggested
The theme of a PG-rated film may itself call for
parental guidance. There may be some profanity
PG-13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned
A PG-13 film is one which, in the view of
the MPAA Rating Board, leaps beyond the
R – Restricted
An R-rated film may include hard language, or
tough violence, or nudity within sensual scenes,
NC-17 – No Children 17 or Under
NC-17 does not necessarily mean "obscene
or pornographic" in the often accepted or legal
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