R-Rating
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In MPAA terminology, rated R means restricted. Persons under 17 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian with photo ID. These films may contain strong profanity, graphic sexuality or nudity, strong violence, and/or gore, and drug use. A movie rated R for profanity often has more severe or frequent language than the PG-13 rating would permit. Rarely an R-rated movie can be similar to that of a PG-13. Appleseed was rated R for "some violence" and was just as violent as a PG-13. It was rated R was because of one instance of a head crushing. That doesn't mean that it is full of profanity. Georgia Rule for example was rated R for "sexual content and some language", and had the frequency of profanity as an average PG-13 rated movie. The reason why it was rated R in part for "some language" was because one of the 2 uses of fuck was used sexually. Some of the other words were also used in a harsher context than a PG-13 would permit. An R-rated movie may have more blood, gore, drug use, nudity, or graphic sexuality than a PG-13 movie would admit. The word "motherfucker" would be an example for language.
At the time of its release, Midnight Cowboy (1969) was rated X. It was later re-rated as R. Compare NC-17.
