Bully

Lee Hirsch’s Bully has been in the news lately at the center of a ratings war between the Weinstein Company, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO). The documentary earned and retained an R rating from the MPAA, despite an appeal by the distributor, which has elected instead to release it unrated, inciting a warning from NATO that such a move may encourage its movie theater members to treat it as an NC-17-rated film....  read more

Bully Documentary Loses Rating Appeal

The MPAA has refused to lower the Weinstein Company’s Bully documentary from an R rating to PG-13, ensuring the audience who should see the doc won’t get the chance. The film, which is about the widespread epidemic of bullying in school, originally received an R rating due to “some language.”  read more