Rare PG-rating disclaimer?


My eyesight fails me but, similar to Jaws, the original posters for this film had a little blip below the PG rating and I can't seem to be able to read what it is anywhere. Anyone?

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I can't imagine why this would have gotten an R rating. There was just some profanity.

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11 F-words and "Deep Throat." Historical or not.. the point was, what was the little notice at the bottom of the poster? With "Jaws" it was "May be too intense for younger children" with "intense" bolded and underlined.

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More like twenty-seven F-words.

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These days if you use the f-bomb more than twice it's an automatic R

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"Some" profanity? Practically every other sentence had the F-bomb! Who even uses it *that* much in real life? I once looked through the script, and I think I counted about twenty-seven instances of the word.

Looking at the images of the poster available online, it seems like there is some extra note under the PG rating, but it's too small to read on every copy that I can find.

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This was the highest quality photo I could find.
https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/All-the-Presidents-Men-1976.jpg

Looks like it says "Contains some words which may be objectionable for younger children".

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I don't know about the blips, but I see it was originally rated R and upon protests changed to PG. This could be due to the historical significance of the movie and what happened. I can see teachers and parents desiring the children to learn about what happened in this manner and therefore felt the R rating would not permit the educational values to go forward.

In my opinion, if anyone were to attempt to play this film in schools today to help educate children regarding this bit of history there would be much more protest and demand to return its original rating.

DL Bach

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"In my opinion, if anyone were to attempt to play this film in schools today to help educate children regarding this bit of history there would be much more protest and demand to return its original rating."

If there were protests today, it would be due to the political content, not the language. The rap songs kids listen to today contain more vulgarities. The parents of Fox News addicts, "Republicans can do absolutely no wrong" and "the take down of Nixon was a liberal conspiracy" kids would be calling school district superintendents, threatening lawsuits, insisting on having those "liberal anti American Obama lover" teachers fired. Remember G. Gordon Liddy himself is still absolutely unapologetic about what he did and is a contributer to Roger Ailes' (a Nixon pal) propaganda empire.

Just the country we're living in now, with the post 1987 (no Fairness Doctrine) media and millions of conditioned Muricans.

In some states now, The Passion of the Christ and American Sniper are more likely to be shown in public school classes than All the President's Men.

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Kids say worse in the schools today


Everybody keeps their clothes on, hands to themselves, there is no kissing, no hugging. The worse that happens is smoking in elevator


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I remember when they showed it to us in high school (civics or US history), we had permission slips (Ditto when they showed Dr. Strangelove in world history for our Cold War lesson). I graduated in 2004, so we didn't even know Felt was Deep Throat yet.

I recently rewatched it and was surprised it got a PG. But, the 70s were crazy. That, and the historical value of the film. I had chills throughout the whole thing.

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It was originally rated R, but the rating was changed to PG on appeal, apparently for the historical/educational value.

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