Film
1030: Bully
Trivia: Anderson Cooper is a
strong advocate of this documentary and the movement against bullying that it
has stimulated. It was featured on Anderson Cooper 360°
(2003) in October 2011, at the "Bullying: It Stops Here" town hall
program special. Kelly Ripa,
Rosalind Wiseman and Phil McGraw also shared
their reactions to and support of the movie.
Bully
was originally rated R for language. The Weinstein Company appealed for a lower
rating, as the R rating would exclude the very audience that is was intended
for - high-school teens. The MPAA refused to alter the rating, so the
distributor surrendered the original rating and opted for their film to be
released 'Unrated' to the theaters. Finally, the filmmakers agreed to cut some,
but not all, of the relevant language, and the MPAA did agree to re-rate the
movie PG-13. The PG-13 version does keep intact all the language in the scene
that was the main point of contention between the filmmakers and the MPAA, in
which a 12-year-old is physically and verbally attacked on his school bus by
his classmates.
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