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Director David Lynch suggested an RR rating forsuchadult-oriented films. On September 27, 1990, the MPAAintroducedthe rating NC-17 (“No Children Under 17Admitted”) asits official rating for adult-oriented filmsbearing the MPAA seal.Henry & June was the first film toreceive the NC-17rating.
Furthermore, when was the first R rated movie?
Brian De Palma's satirical draft-dodger comedyGreetings(1968), (Robert De Niro's debut film), was thefirstfilm in the US to receive the new rating of X by theMPAA - fornudity and profanity (in its original release), althoughit waslater reduced to an R rating.
Keeping this in consideration, what was the first movie to be rated?
The next year, the MPAA, taking Spielberg'ssuggestion,instituted the PG-13 rating and Red Dawn was thefirstfilm with that rating.
For us Brits who don't know what that means,anR rating requires everyone under the age of 17 tobeaccompanied by an adult, usually translated in the UK toa15. The reasoning: “strong violence and languagethroughout,sexual content and graphic nudity.”