Word: pg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PG RATING five years ago meant a couple of swear words (but not fuck), a first love (but no sex), and a small brawl (with some blood spilled, but no guts). These days, PGs are about teenagers who do what adults do in Rs, but not on screen. So we get heavy titillation instead of heavy sex, and scuffles suggesting murders instead of up-front violence...
Peter Yates' PG Breaking Away returns to the old formula. Against a tide of cinematic drivel, Yates and a few other directors are making a stand with small-scale movies which make up in honesty for what they lack in monumentality and pyrotechnics. Cheered on by his audiences and lauded by critics, Yates, with a movie about bicycles, has out-distanced power-driven, Dolbyized, super-slick monsters like Rocky II and smug, summer-hyped star vehicles like Meatballs...
...begun transmitting on a second channel, offering a selection of family programs: G and PG movies rather than the R-rated flicks often seen on the parent service, and a series of quality children's programs. That, says Chairman Gerald Levin, is only the start: "The consumer will be presented with many services from which to choose, each slightly less broad-based, until we get down to a pottery channel...
...County police have traditionally projected an iron-fisted, shoot-first-ask-question-later image. Within a four-week period last year, white P.G. policemen fatally shot two unarmed black suspects. In nearby Washington, D.C., it is a standard warning that you don't venture into PG County unless absolutely necessary, and never at all after dark. "The police there don't take kindly to intruders, and they keep their own blacks squarely under thumb," as one black D.C. resident who used to live in P.G. County...
There is something chickenhearted about this backing away from the sort of big finish that pictures like this implicitly promise. One cannot help thinking that the producers were afraid of making drama too strong for the family audiences that PG ratings pull in. The result, however, is a film of small appeal to any audience...