PG-13 Movies with Nudity....since TITANIC

[JoeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoeS]

There was a pretty cool thread on that other forum about nudity in PG-Rated films. But, like most things there, it petered out.

But, while it was active, the interesting thing that emerged was that back in the 70s and 80s it was fairly common for movies to have full topless nudity in PG-Rated movies (and, occassionally, even full frontal - male & female!). Then, in 1984 with RED DAWN, entered PG-13. Nudity was verbotten in PG, but, PG-13 films still had ample examples.

But, for some reason, after 1997, even PG-13 movies seemed to have a defacto no-nudity clause in them. TITANIC and FIFTH ELEMENT were released in '97 and had memorable nudity (Kate Winslet and Milla Jovovich, respectfully).

Can anybody cite any examples of nudity SINCE 1997 in PG or PG-13 films?

The only one I can recall is in SAMSARA from 2011. But, that's a documentary. There are probably others of this sort, but, I'm talking primarily of feature films. I'm not interested in a passing butt shot, or a very oblique-angled side boob, or even one of those quickie spin and panic because someone catches you nude (like Diane Keaton in SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE or Sandra Bullock in THE PROPOSAL). I'm talking about full-on lingering frontal/full topless nudity like in the good old PG days!

Anybody with examples?

Thank you, and happy sleuthing!

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

I've still never seen Titanic and was surprised to find out that it had titties. I still don't get how it got a PG-13 with that scene but that's the power of Hollywood for ya'. I make ya' a bet that Michael Bay could film a snuff film and it would get an R.

The three boobed chick is in the Total Recall remake that's PG-13 BUT all three boobs are fake.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

I don't see anything in my collection. I thought maybe INTO THE BLUE but it appears I just dreamed that.

The three boobed chick is in the Total Recall remake that's PG-13 BUT all three boobs are fake.

The PG-13 version is heavily cut so that it's blink and you missed it.

[JoeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoeS]

The remake of TOTAL RECALL makes the hypocrisy clear. Since 1997, violence has increased in PG-13 movies (the original was an R, of course), but, even a flash of rubber triple boobs is considered something that shouldn't be lingered on.

The violence vs. nudity thing seems to have become the defacto tradeoff for Hollywood: The MPAA will let you show more violence and still get a PG-13, but, don't you dare show any real nudity.

I don't see anything in my collection. I thought maybe INTO THE BLUE but it appears I just dreamed that.



The PG-13 version is heavily cut so that it's blink and you missed it.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

I have two sons. One is 5 and the other 7. Its clear my 7-year-old is more mature than most boys his age. My 5-year-old is the complete opposite. In watching how my kids handle things they see in movies, I'm less freaked out about non-sexual nudity than I am extreme violence. They barely seem to notice a little T&A. If they do, they find it funny. That said, my kids clearly shouldn't be exposed to extreme violence. There is violence in kids cartoons that have terrified my kids. The MPAA has shit backwards I'm surprised more parents aren't challenging them.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

I have two sons. One is 5 and the other 7. Its clear my 7-year-old is more mature than most boys his age. My 5-year-old is the complete opposite. In watching how my kids handle things they see in movies, I'm less freaked out about non-sexual nudity than I am extreme violence. They barely seem to notice a little T&A. If they do, they find it funny. That said, my kids clearly shouldn't be exposed to extreme violence. There is violence in kids cartoons that have terrified my kids. The MPAA has shit backwards I'm surprised more parents aren't challenging them.

I was having this chat with Ian awhile back....having a daughter, I'm pretty much opposite. I don't let her get into the extreme violence either, but I do watch horror with her...and it's unsettling to watch nudity with your daughter. She actually asked me if I was fastforwarding a quick scene because "they were having intercourse". I just about fuckin DIED.

[Jason C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jason C]

I was having this chat with Ian awhile back....having a daughter, I'm pretty much opposite. I don't let her get into the extreme violence either, but I do watch horror with her...and it's unsettling to watch nudity with your daughter. She actually asked me if I was fastforwarding a quick scene because "they were having intercourse". I just about fuckin DIED.

I have 3-year-old daughter and the thought of my baby girl ever saying the word "intercourse" makes me want to fucking die. Raising girls is hard. ;)

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Hahahaha, indeed.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

I have two sons. One is 5 and the other 7. Its clear my 7-year-old is more mature than most boys his age. My 5-year-old is the complete opposite. In watching how my kids handle things they see in movies, I'm less freaked out about non-sexual nudity than I am extreme violence. They barely seem to notice a little T&A. If they do, they find it funny. That said, my kids clearly shouldn't be exposed to extreme violence. There is violence in kids cartoons that have terrified my kids. The MPAA has shit backwards I'm surprised more parents aren't challenging them.

Not to be a dick but violence in cartoons have been a thing since the 90's.

This isn't a recent development. I do agree that each kid handles it differently.

[Damin J. Toell Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Damin J. Toell]

Not to be a dick but violence in cartoons have been a thing since the 90's.

Just since the 90s?! http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/...d_suicide.html

[JoeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoeS]

A perfect example of how things have changed is the crazy cult film THE MANITOU (which is showing on TCM today). PG film. Full Topless nudity with Susan Strasberg. And, not just a split second flash.

Now, horror flicks that push the limit on PG-13 violence and gore, won't show any nudity whatsoever.

[vincent_z Low Angler Find all posts View Profile Close vincent_z]

Does Hollywood think I'm buying a ticket?

I thanked people in that other forum's thread.
For me (& probably you), the pinnacle of nudity in a PG movie has to be "Airplane" where, in the midst of all that panic in the cabin when the stewardess asks if there's anybody aboard who knows how to fly an airplane, we get a boob shot - and not just any boob shot - but Uschi Digard's boobs!

[JoeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoeS]

Oh, there are dozens of examples of nudity in PG movies back in the day. But, since the end of the 90s, folks are hard-pressed to find even one example in PG-13 movies, let alone PG.

[Fundi Guest Find all posts View Profile Close Fundi]

America loves violence, so Hollywood gives it to them. But that's not what makes our country violent, I'm not one of those people that thinks movies or media makes people act the way they do, it's idiot parents who don't raise their kids right. Parents who let their kids run rampant and don't teach them it's not okay to go out and steal peoples cars and steal someones money just because you want it. But as for nudity in films, yeah what the hell happened to that, you can't even show much nudity in an R rated film anymore or you get slapped with an NC-17 rating it seems. I have been watching so many Euro films that I don't even notice nudity anymore, and I don't even realize the films are probably rated NC-17 if they were rated in America, but on blu ray they are given an unrated rating. They aren't porn films or anything, just films that show nudity much more normally than American films. American films still have to strategically place nudity or people get all bent out of shape over it.

[JoeS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JoeS]

... I have been watching so many Euro films that I don't even notice nudity anymore, and I don't even realize the films are probably rated NC-17 if they were rated in America, but on blu ray they are given an unrated rating. They aren't porn films or anything, just films that show nudity much more normally than American films. American films still have to strategically place nudity or people get all bent out of shape over it.

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR barely got released here and, of course, got a NC-17 and created controversy for its explicit lesbian sex scenes. In France? The equivalent of PG-13 (actually PG-12!). Italy: PG-14. SWEDEN, DENMARK, CZECH: all PG-15. Etc.

So, in Europe you can show genitals and explicit sex scenes and get roughly a PG+, but, in the USA we can't even show a pair of breasts? But, hey, we can show a "hero" destroy and kill thousands of people, including crushing their skulls or snapping their necks with surround sound accompaniment and still call it family friendly!