Bully, a documentary about harassed youth that was controversially slapped with an R-rating by the MPAA, will be re-released as a PG-13 film thanks to a bit of editing. The MPAA originally was rated R because of some harsh language used during filming—language filmmakers defended as being realistic to what most middle and high school students hear every day. Harvey Weinstein, head of the company distributing the film, took pains during the past several weeks to tell the media how disappointed he was with the MPAA; and about 500,000 people signed a petition in hopes of getting the MPAA to reverse its decision, to no avail. The Weinstein Co. released the film without a rating, but after a two-week run, the film’s makers elected to snip out some of the offending language and re-submit the film to the MPAA. “The ratings system has worked exactly as it is supposed to,” said Joan Graves, chair of the MPAA’s classification and rating administration. “Parents have been kept informed of the content of each version of the film, and they have been given the information they need to make movie-going decisions on behalf of their kids.” (Washington Times)