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Article: Drug use in movies will get PG-13 or more
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 14, 1986
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HOLLYWOOD The Motion Picture Association of America did some fine
tuning on its 18-year-old ratings system last week, instructing its
salaried ratings-board members to give at least a PG-13 to any film
that depicts drug use.
If the drug use is graphic, the rating goes to R. If drug use
is excessively graphic, the film could earn an X.
The changes won't mean much to parents scanning the movie ads,
because the MPAA chose not to adopt either of the additional letter
codes that had been proposed - SA for substance abuse or D for drugs.
Nor will the changes have much effect at the box office. The
PG-13 advises parents that the movie contains material they may not
want their pre-teens to ...