Tuesday, December 30, 2014

A Brief History of the Movie Rating System

A Brief History of the Movie Rating System


When you were a kid, sneaking into a rated R movie was a big deal. Everyone had their own tricks, but this author's was to buy a ticket to a rated G Disney movie, say, Mulan; when the usher turned their back, I would run into a rated R movie like, for example American History X. But it wasn't always this way – not kids sneaking into movies deemed only for adults, but rather the movie rating system. There was a time when movies didn't have ratings. So how did we get from there to the current system?


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