This is the first movie that I can remember where kids actually cursed on screen. There may have been films before this that had a One or Two kids Curse but I can't remember a film before this that had a large cast of kids actually curse.
shareHard to say exactly....I know Tatum herself let a couple fly in "Paper Moon" which was earlier.
shareWhat made the movie unique was not only the kids cursing but the way they did so as if there was nothing wrong with it.
They acted (shock of shocks!) like real kids!
Each kid character in that film was a real representation of real people. Did your school have a Kelly Leake or a Tanner Boyle? Sure it did unless it was an all girl school.
More than just cursing. This was the FIRST PG MOVIE EVER where they said the "F" word. Two days later (according to IMDB), All the President's Men (also rated PG) they said it several times in that movie. We just didn't have PG 13 back then.
No. It wasn't. That word does NOT appear in this movie. Other expletives do, including the N-bomb, but not the word you think.
You have posted this assertion elsewhere, and it is simply not accurate.
Well there was also a little known film that came out a few years earlier called "The Exorcist".
shareThere was a film called "Bless the Beasts and the Children" which had its cast of young actors swearing and it came out in 1971.
shareRight! One of the first movies to show kids cursing, and the very first (that I'm aware of) to show the demon Pazuzzu cursing.
shareThe PG-13 rating did not exist when "The Bad News Bears" was released in 1976. The first film distributed with a PG-13 rating was "Red Dawn" in 1984. "The Flamingo Kid" was the first film to receive the rating, but was not released until months later.
I am an adult and don't think I have any kids so I don't pay much attention to movie ratings now. When I was a kid we said G stood for good, PG stood for pretty good, R stood for really good and X stood for excellent.
I grew up in the New York suburbs in the '70s. Most kids I knew cursed. We usually referred to it as "swearing". I went to high school with a girl who called it "cussing", but she was from Texas.
Think it was the Exorcist
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