2012/03/09 06:00

TEEN FIGHT TO CHANGE "BULLY" RATING

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　　Katy Butler, a 17-year-old Michigan high school student, brought more than 200,000 signatures to Motion Picture Association of America in Los Angeles to campaign against its decision to give the documentary "Bully" an R rating.

　　"They needed one more vote for it to be PG-13 instead of R," Butler said. "So I think having over 200,000 people express their opinion that you guys were almost right, you were almost there, so we're just going to help give you that extra push that you can change it and do the right thing so that kids can see this movie."

　　Butler launched a campaign on the website change.org to have the MPAA rating changed so that people under the age of 17 can see the film without parental supervision, and so that it can be screened in schools.

　　The documentary "Bully" was directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker, Lee Hirsch, who presents the realities of bullying that affect nearly 13 million kids a year, in the hope to stop bullying in schools. Filmed over the course of the 2009/2010 school year, the movie opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, reveals a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic and economic borders.

　　Katy says that she knows the documentary is given an R because of the harsh language in it. However, as a victim of campus bullying herself back in middle school, she believes that the film should be screened to more children to show the real situation, and to stop it.

　　"They rated it an R for language, and they were talking about taking the language out and changing it to PG-13,""That's not a good idea. The language is in there for a reason. The language that they're using is the language they're using in school. It's the language that kids are bulled with, and no one goes into schools and takes out or bleeps out the language that kids hear."

　　The attempt to change the R rating ended up unsuccessful after Butler met with MPAA officials. Still, the teenager said she won't give up in trying to change their minds until the documentary releases in theaters on March 30.

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