> > Stephen and I discussed this in RinkChat last night. I am positive I'm not hallucinating, but the last time I remember seeing the 'R' rating's cut off age 18 was when I was living in Germany; we saw movies on an American military base. The ratings were the same there as here (not to be confused with Germany's own rating system, which didn't apply to the movies we got on our own base), but maybe some kind of law or policy required their interpretation to be different. *shrug*
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> It's been eighteen as long as I can remember... In fact, I remember balking at the inconsistency when the NC-17 rating first popped up and I could get into, say, a porn flick but not a slasher film. :-P

Hrm... maybe you all have been living in some strange alternate dimension. According to the MPAA's page, it used to be 16, but it was *raised* to 17. They don't ever mention it being 18.

Stephen