What organization is responsible for assigning movie ratings?

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c. Motion Picture Association of America

"Red Dawn" was the first movie to carry the PG-13 rating when it debuted in theaters on Aug. 10, 1984.

The MPAA is a trade organization that represents the interests of the major Hollywood movie studios.  Its ratings division reviews 800 to 900 movies every year. Usually, fewer than a dozen of those ratings are appealed, and only about a third of those appeals succeed in getting a rating changed.

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