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Movie Rating system (USA)

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) supervises a board of 8/13 members who work for the Classification and Rating Administration (CARA). In turn, the board is funded by movie distributors and producers, who pay a fee to have their movies rated.

Board members are chosen from USA. society and must meet the qualifications of having a "parenthood experience" and possessing an "intelligent maturity" . They meet in Los Angeles, California, and apply the following ratings to movies.

• G General Audiences. All ages admitted.
• PG Parental Guidance Suggested.
• PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned.
• R Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
• NC-17 No one 17 and under admitted.

Operating since 1968, an important difference between the MPAA and movie rating boards of other countries is the voluntary nature of the American movie rating system. No studio, distributor, theater, or video store is bound by any legislation to follow the ratings applied by the MPAA ratings board.

While the MPAA ratings are on video cassettes released in the USA, the board has no legislative authority to enforce restrictions on home video rentals or sales. DVD releases are not considered separate products from the original movies and therefore retain the identical rating.