This is a positive trend.
Despite moral watchdogs lamenting Hollywood's vile tendencies, the studios have actually been cleaning up their act. R-rated films, once the studios' mainstay, are on the decline, both in numbers and in lure. In the last five years, R-rated pics have dwindled from 212 in 1999 to just 147 last year.
Perhaps even more startling is the fact that in 2004, PG films outgrossed R pics for the first time in two decades: $2.3 billion to $2.1 billion. The last time PG was bigger business than R was 1984, the year the Motion Picture Assn. of America introduced the PG-13 rating.
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That's part of it. But at bottom it's a money issue. PG and PG-13 movies are much more profitable than R rated movies because you can attract a much wider audience. With the advent of Dreamworks and Pixar, the G and PG rates movies are gold.
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