NC-17

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Acronym	Definition
NC-17	No One 17 and Under Admitted (MPAA rating)
NC-17	No Children under 17 years of age (movie rating)

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For nearly four decades, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sold its ratings system--that G through NC-17 shorthand for vice and violence--as a way to guide parents and keep government scolds a safe distance from Hollywood Hills. Narc of the matinee by Hawley, Kerry / Reason Vachon's two stints on the jury at Sundance allow her to expand on what she loves about film as an art form, when she's not talking a director off the window ledge after an NC-17 rating or humoring a cost-conscious line producer. Vachon's fresh kill by Marler, Regina / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) It got an NC-17 for sexual content because of sex scenes that were cut from other films, like ``The Cooler'' and even the puppet film ``Team America: World Police. DOCUMENTARY WHODUNIT EXPLORES FILM-RATING SECRECY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) More results

? References in periodicals archive

For nearly four decades, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sold its ratings system--that G through NC-17 shorthand for vice and violence--as a way to guide parents and keep government scolds a safe distance from Hollywood Hills.

Narc of the matinee by Hawley, Kerry / Reason

Vachon's two stints on the jury at Sundance allow her to expand on what she loves about film as an art form, when she's not talking a director off the window ledge after an NC-17 rating or humoring a cost-conscious line producer.

Vachon's fresh kill by Marler, Regina / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

It got an NC-17 for sexual content because of sex scenes that were cut from other films, like ``The Cooler'' and even the puppet film ``Team America: World Police.

DOCUMENTARY WHODUNIT EXPLORES FILM-RATING SECRECY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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