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"New in Town" will be available to be seen by the entire family. On Tuesday, January 20, Lionsgate and Gold Circle Films announced that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has toned down the rating of the romantic comedy from Danish film director Jonas Elmer from PG-13 to PG.
The new rating was given by the MPAA after the Lionsgate and Gold Circle Films mutually agreed to cut out the scenes with profanity. In a statement from both studios, the decision to delete strong language was taken to make the film "accessible and acceptable to the entire family", especially since it "has received strong early word-of-mouth from family-friendly audiences".
Pairing up Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr., "New in Town" tells the story of Lucy Hill, an ambitious, up-and-coming executive living in Miami who encounters a life-changing experience when taking a temporary assignment in the middle of nowhere. Written by Ken Rance and C. Jay Cox, the comedy movie will open in U.S. theaters on January 30.
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I was looking forward to the movie due to its new 'family-friendly' recommendation, but after seeing it at a prescreening, I was highly dissapointed. I would not take a 13 year old to see this movie. I was very glad they removed the excessive strong language (I am glad for a movie that does not use profanity as a crutch!), but there was a lot of humor in that movie that was based off sexuality or people getting hurt. Perhaps as audiences we have been desensitized to expect such things, so compared to the typical Rom-Com these days, it toned down perhaps. But family friendly? No.