Word: pg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nightmare Before Christmas; directed by Henry Selick; based on a story by Tim Burton; Touchstone Pictures; Rated PG...
Directed by Anthony Minghella; starring Annabella Sciorra, William Hurt, Matt Dillon and Mary Louise Parker; Warner Brothers; rated PG...
...shoot-'em-up, gobble-'em-down movies like The Fugitive and Jurassic Park are rated PG-13 these days, what does an R-rated action adventure look like? Like True Romance: violent to a fault, glam...
Wait a minute. Except for Jurassic Park, whose PG-13 rating is meant to scare off the very young, these are all what used to be called adult movies. Wasn't this supposed to be the Summer of Boys? Weren't the studios primed for pint-size blockbusters about 12-year-old emotional overachievers? Well, yes -- and the kids are at the movies too. Free Willy (a boy and his whale) has struck a heart chord; this inexpensive tearjerker will earn about $80 million. Rookie of the Year (a boy and his fastball) and Dennis the Menace...
...admits he hasn't watched a lot of TV since. It's true, during the ratings-sweeps periods, the networks each put on a few movies that include scenes of comparatively graphic violence. But those are anomalies, and as theatrical films they wouldn't even get PG-13 ratings...