the great bully rating beef of 2012

Bully Finally Has Its PG-13 Rating

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The Weinstein Company’s documentary Bully has run the full controversy gamut — R-rated, unrated, whispers of a re-cut — and now finally finishes its off-screen drama with an MPAA-sanctioned PG-13 rating in time for its April 13 wide release. The new version contains three small edits, but kept “a controversial scene on a school bus in which three F-words are used against a bullied child,” the L.A. Times reports. A petition at Change.org requesting a softening of the rating had notched more half a million signatures, including nearly three dozen members of Congress. Are we all free now to just consider Bully, the film and forget Bully, the rating kerfuffle?

Bully Finally Has Its PG-13 Rating