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Rated PG for -- Incidental Smoking
By: Martha Anderson|Published: September 7, 2007 2:07 PM


No_smoking If I had more time to blog today, I'd have thought up something clever to say about this, but here's one I've never seen before. The new Ron Howard movie, In the Shadow of the Moon, which, by the way, I can't wait to see when it hits the wider market, is rated PG for, among other things, "incidental smoking." It's interesting to me that smoking is now considered an act that can't be portrayed or viewed on screen without parental guidance, and yet other activities can be. What's up with that?


Comments:

Pretty ludicrous. That's why I always use the MPAA ratings as no more than a rule of thumb. Sometime my teens (I have four) argue for watching a particular movie because it's "only" rated PG or PG-13, and I just remind them that issues like "incidental smoking" and "overt religious message" alone are enough to relegate a movie from G to PG while the MPAA ratings needle doesn't even register a movie with no smoking but a godless worldview. I really appreciate a lot of the movie review sites (Christian and secular) that help me make an informed decision on a movie-by-movie basis.
Posted By: Scott W on September 07, 2007 2:53 PM
I can't stand smoking, but that is ridiculous -- but not surprising. (Just give it time: A movie will next be rated PG for 'incidental junk-food consumption' while the kids on-screen snork at scatalogical and suggestive humor.)
Posted By: CLH on September 07, 2007 2:20 PM

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