A PG rating means Parental Guidance under 15. You may need to take care with these films and games, and maybe explain some of the content to your kids.
Parental Guidance (PG), formerly NRC (Not Recommended for Children), is one of the seven classification categories of the Australian film rating system and one of the six for the computer game system of the Australian Classification Board. The symbol is PG enclosed in a rectangle and the colour is yellow.
The content of PG-classified material may contain mild levels of classifiable material, such as themes, violence, sexual references and coarse language. Material classified PG recommends parental guidance for children under 15 years old.
Before 2005, the similar G8+ label was used for computer games.
PG rated content is described as mild.
Factors[]
Themes[]
Themes can deal with heavy subjects such as loss and death, but they cannot deal with controversial or mature subjects like mental health or domestic violence.
Violence[]
Violence in PG rated content can be accommodated depending on the context. In movies, live action violence using realistic weaponry is allowed if there is no or very little sight of blood and victims don't suffer death consequences unless justified by context. PG rated movies can also contain intense and frequent fantasy violence if injury consequences are minimal. Graphic or frequent blood may result in an M rating and human gore (animal gore may be rated PG if it is part of predatory animal behavior) is not suitable for a PG rated movie. PG rated video games cannot contain realistic gun use and can have minimal blood. In a unique case, the video game Castle Crashers was rated PG for "mild battle violence" despite containing gratuitous amounts of cartoonish blood and gore.
Sex[]
Sexual content can include slightly suggestive comments and visual references that aren't detailed. Sex scenes are rarely allowed in PG rated movies and are not allowed in PG rated video games. Suggestive or sexual themes are not permitted.
Language[]
Bad language is limited to mild uses like "sh*t", "crap", "piss", "ass" and more; however, F bombs have been known to rarely be present in PG rated content (e.g., the films Big and Instant Family).
Drug use[]
Drug use is restricted to verbal references that aren't too detailed. Visual depictions may escalate to an M rating without a valid or educational context. Actual depictions of drug use are not allowed.
Nudity[]
Nudity can be infrequent and not detailed or in an educational context. Depictions of genitals unless with artistic or educational context are not allowed. Female breast nudity can be allowed if it is infrequent.
Statistics[]
During the financial year that ended on 30 June 2022, the PG classification was given to 100 films for public exhibition and 79 computer games.
List[]
- According to the ACB's classification database, 32K+ films and 298K+ computer games have been classified PG. (list)
Trivia[]
Equivalents[]
- MPA's PG
- TV Parental Guidelines' TV-Y7-FV and TV-PG
- ESRB's E10+
- BBFC's PG
- PEGI's 7 rating
- CERO's hard A and soft B ratings
- Kijkwijzer's 6 and 9
- NZ OFLC's PG
- Netflix's 7+ rating
- USK's 6 rating
- FSK's 6 rating
- RARS' 6+ rating
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