A PG-13 rating is a sterner warning by the Rating Board to parents to
determine whether their children under age 13 should view the motion picture, as
some material might not be suited for them. A PG-13 motion picture may go beyond
the PG rating in theme, violence, nudity, sensuality, language, adult activities
or other elements, but does not reach the restricted R category. The theme of
the motion picture by itself will not result in a rating greater than PG-13,
although depictions of activities related to a mature theme may result in a
restricted rating for the motion picture. Any drug use will initially require at
least a PG-13 rating. More than brief nudity will require at least a PG-13
rating, but such nudity in a PG-13 rated motion picture generally will not be
sexually oriented. There may be depictions of violence in a PG-13 movie, but
generally not both realistic and extreme or persistent violence. A motion
picture’s single use of one of the harsher sexually-derived words, though only
as an expletive, initially requires at least a PG-13 rating. More than one such
expletive requires an R rating, as must even one of those words used in a sexual
context. The Rating Board nevertheless may rate such a motion picture PG-13 if,
based on a special vote by a two-thirds majority, the Raters feel that most
American parents would believe that a PG-13 rating is appropriate because of the
context or manner in which the words are used or because the use of those words
in the motion picture is inconspicuous.