MPAA Ratings Rethink

Another big organization brought low by a little documentary:

The changes come a year after a Sundance film, “This Film Is Not Yet Rated,” excoriated the rating system as a supersecret star chamber. The film outed the otherwise anonymous ratings-board members and revealed that several were no longer parents of minor children, the only requirement for the job.

The documentary, which was directed by Kirby Dick and released by IFC Films in September, also disclosed the closely held names of the ratings system’s appeals-board members and revealed that lay representatives from the Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant National Council of Churches sit in on the appeals process.

--Hollywood Movie Ratings - Movies - Report - New York Times