{"id":1987468,"date":"2025-08-29T21:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1987468"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:49:58","slug":"how-1984s-red-dawn-starring-charlie-sheen-and-patrick-swayze-inspired-a-pg-13-movie-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-1984s-red-dawn-starring-charlie-sheen-and-patrick-swayze-inspired-a-pg-13-movie-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"How 1984\u2019s \u2018Red Dawn\u2019 Starring Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze Inspired a PG-13 Movie Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Before Red Dawn opened in 1984, there were only four movie ratings: G, PG, R and X. The new PG-13 rating was invented when the teen-war hit \u2014 about high school guerrillas played by <strong>Patrick Swayze<\/strong>, <strong>Charlie Sheen<\/strong>, <strong>C. Thomas Howell<\/strong>, <strong>Lea Thompson<\/strong> and <strong>Jennifer Grey<\/strong> \u2014 depicted kids being gunned down in schoolyards, civilians getting executed and other carnage that wasn\u2019t exactly kid stuff and still not extreme enough for an R rating. The legacy of Red Dawn is that today, most movies get a PG-13!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Red Dawn opened in 1984, there were only four movie ratings: G, PG, R and X. The new PG-13 rating was invented when the teen-war hit \u2014 about high school guerrillas played by Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey \u2014 depicted kids being gunned down in schoolyards, civilians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1987469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[358168,315557,353606,350096,358169,353607,358167,321495],"class_list":["post-1987468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-c-thomas-howell","tag-charlie-sheen","tag-jennifer-grey","tag-lea-thompson","tag-movie-ratings","tag-patrick-swayze","tag-red-dawn","tag-united-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/How-1984s-\u2018Red-Dawn-Starring-Charlie-Sheen-and-Patrick-Swayze.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}