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A little bit of info for many of you discussing kids watching rated R movies...the PG-13 rating didn't even come into existence until August of 1984. That means that there was more of a gray area between PG and R films and parents did tend to be a little more free when it came to having their children watch a mix of both. This was before videogame violence, Tipper Gore and the Explicit lyrics warnings on albums, and many of our parents grew up in the much more open and free 60s and 70s. We didn't start really trying to opress everyone's proclivities until this time. Children everywhere were watching movie like Friday the 13th, Revenge of the Nerds (so much T and A) in that movie. And to be fair, what kids have access to these days, regardless of what their parents allow them to see, substantially eclipses even the most risque R films of the time.