Ratings

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Movies can open our children's eyes to new places, cultures and ideas, and parents have an important role in ensuring that experience is positive and enriching. They need the tools to decide what movies are suitable for their children to watch. From understanding how movie ratings work and have evolved with the times to helping parents find movies appropriate for their kids, we want to help make movie-going a positive experience in your family's life.

Movie ratings provide parents with advance information about the content of movies to help them determine what's appropriate for their children. After all, parents know best their children's individual sensitivities and sensibilities. Ratings are assigned by a board of parents who consider factors such as violence, sex, language and drug use and then assign a rating they believe the majority of American parents would give a movie.

G-Rated

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The ratings board has determined the film contains nothing most parents will consider offensive for even their youngest children to see or hear. Nudity, sex scenes, and scenes of drug use are absent; violence is minimal; snippets of dialogue may go beyond polite conversation but do not go beyond common everyday expressions.

PG-Rated

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The ratings board has determined the film may contain some material parents might not like to expose to their young children. Material that will clearly need to be examined or inquired about before children are allowed to attend the film. Explicit sex scenes and scenes of drug use are absent; nudity, if present, is seen only briefly, horror and violence do not exceed moderate levels.

PG13-Rated

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The ratings board has determined the film may be inappropriate for pre-teens. Parents should be especially careful about letting their younger children attend. Rough or persistent violence is absent; sexually-oriented nudity is generally absent; some scenes of drug use may be seen; some use of the harsher sexually derived words may be heard.

R-Rated

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R-rated films may contain material that some parents find unsuitable for children under 17, including strong language, violence, sexual content, drug use, or mature themes. Parents are encouraged to research a film before bringing children to see it.

Guests under the age of 17 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian for admission to an R-rated film.

Guests ages 17-18 may purchase one ticket to an R-rated film. Guests ages 19-20 may purchase up to two tickets. There is no limit on the number of R-rated tickets that may be purchased by guests age 21 and older.

CWTheaters' policy is that children under the age of six are not allowed to attend R-Rated showings beginning after 6:00pm.

NC-Rated

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The ratings board has determined that most American parents would feel that the film is patently adult and that children age 17 and under should not be admitted to it. The film may contain explicit sex scenes, an accumulation of sexually-oriented language, and/or scenes of excessive violence. The NC-17 designation does not, however, signify that the rated film is obscene or pornographic in terms of sex, language or violence.

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