What was the very first PG-13 movie?

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Answer by TPOUK
Submitted on 12/4/2006
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Violent scenes in the 1984 PG-rated films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which Spielberg directed and Gremlins, which he produced, were the final straws. Public outcry about the violence led Spielberg to suggest a new PG-13 rating to MPAA president Jack Valenti, who conferred with theater owners and then introduced the new rating on July 1. The rating still allowed children under 13 to be admitted without a parent or guardian, but it cautions parents about potentially shocking violence or other offensive content, although not as offensive as an R rating. It is the highest unrestricted rating. The first movie to gain widespread theatrical release with a PG-13 rating was 1984's Red Dawn (although the first to receive the classification was Dreamscape). It took a year for the PG-13 logo to shift into its current form.

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Question by Biscuit
Submitted on 12/18/2003
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What was the very first PG-13 movie?

Answer by Bob Andrews
Submitted on 1/22/2004
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Red Dawn

Answer by Yoknows
Submitted on 3/8/2004
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Gremlins

Answer by Seahal
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The Woman in Red

Answer by Bacchus
Submitted on 6/14/2004
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Flamingo Kid, The (1984) The first film to be given a PG-13 rating. It was shelved for five months, however, making _Red Dawn (1984)_ the first film to be released with a PG-13 rating. From IMDB.com

Answer by GoalieJoe
Submitted on 12/24/2004
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Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark(1981)

Answer by mygzus
Submitted on 1/19/2005
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Indiana Jones And The Temple of Doom

Answer by Sunny
Submitted on 5/26/2005
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Indiana Jones was the first PG-13 movie. It came out in 1981 and is also recorded as the first PG-13 movie ever in the "1980's Timeline" by Jane Duden and Gail B. Stewart in New York in 1991 by the Macmillan Publishing comp.

Answer by assmuncher
Submitted on 8/24/2005
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Red dawn is the first PG-13 movie to be released. Temple of doom and Gremlins (rated PG) caused the uproar to make the PG-13 rating. The Flamingo Kid should have been first but the release date was pushed back. Steven Speilberg created the PG-13 rating because he was the one who caused it.

Answer by blackclowd
Submitted on 10/19/2005
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Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

Answer by SixEVC
Submitted on 3/29/2006
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The Flamingo Kid - 21 December 1984 Red Dawn - 10 August 1984 and survey says.... Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - 23 May 1984 (Number one answer)

Answer by pta
Submitted on 7/9/2006
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Indiana Jones and the temple of doom

Answer by johnzilla
Submitted on 8/8/2006
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"Indiana Jones and the temple od doom was the first movie was rated PG-13 for a short while well some were rated PG earlier

Answer by ezlivn73
Submitted on 10/29/2006
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Dreamscape was released in 1983 and was re-edited to a PG-13 rating.

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