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The ratings board of the Motion Picture Assn. of America has had better months.

Following its assigning of an R rating for the documentary ‘Bully,’ the MPAA has been attacked from all quarters.

Harvey Weinstein, the film’s distributor, and ‘Bully’ director Lee Hirsch claim the MPAA’s rating is not only hypocritical and inconsistent (the more expletive-laden documentary ‘Gunner Palace’ was rated PG-13) but also keeps the film from its intended audience of middle school kids. (Their appeal of the R rating was defeated by a single vote.)

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Katy Butler, a Michigan high school student, started an online petition aimed at overturning the R rating and has collected more than 400,000 signatures. A number of celebrities, including Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep, and members of Congress have joined the chorus asking that ‘Bully’s’ rating be revised to PG-13.

The Parents Television Council, which supports the MPAA’s rating for ‘Bully,’ says movies such as the dystopian drama ‘The Hunger Games,’ in which a number of teenagers kill each other, should be rated R, not PG-13.

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