We found significantly higher rated content in movies as a function of time, suggesting that the MPAA applied less stringency in its age-based ratings over time for the period of 1992-2003.
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We performed statistical analyses to correlate the content-based scores with the overall rating and rating reasons assigned by the MPAA to test the hypothesis that age-based ratings became less stringent over time to explore correlations between film content, ratings, and available economic information to compare the amount of violence in animated and non-animated G-rated films and to characterize the available information about the depiction of substances in films.Ĭomparing the content-based scores for different movie ratings, we find large variability exists in the types of content that receive different MPAA ratings, and good correlation between the content-based scores assigned by Kids-in-Mind and Screen It! The MPAA rating reasons correlate with higher scores assigned to content-based ratings, and the number of reasons indicated increases with the age-based rating category. Finally, we obtained information on gross revenues and movie budgets from the IMDbPro. We then added to the database the three Kids-in-Mind content-based scores for: (1) violence and gore, (2) sex and nudity, and (3) profanity and the 15 categories of information from Screen It!, which began providing information in mid-1996. We developed a complete database of movie ratings available from the Motion Picture Association of America(MPAA) to characterize the content information (including any indicated reasons noted for ratings) for all movies released between Januand December 31, 2003.