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Declined contribution #221105-183628-079000, incorrect MPA certificate shown on title page
The title page for Small Change (1976) - IMDb shows an older MPA rating of R, which was overturned. I tried to force the correct rating of PG to show, by deleting the PG rating attribute "certificate #24684", as previously recommended on here. That didn't work. Three questions: how does one get the correct rating forced to the title page? Is certificate number ever an appropriate ratings attribute? I would think this should be at most a Trivia item (apparently dear to someone's heart, but which I always vote as "not interesting" even as Trivia.) Shouldn't staff do a system-wide search-and-delete on this form of "attribute"?
Giancarlo_Cairella
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2 years ago
This looks like a display issue, and removing data is never the right approach to address those. There are films who received more than one MPAA rating (either on appeal or because the film is resubmitted for rating at a later time). Some get a new rating after edits, some have the original rating overturned on appeal. A recent example of the latter is the Ann Hathaway/Rebel Wilson comedy The Hustle, which originally was rated R, then appealed and was re-rated PG-13; an example of the former example is Midnight Cowboy (1968), which was originally released with an X rating and was later re-rated R. We want to list both ratings in those cases, so removing one of them (or removing the certificate number) is not an option. The question is which rating should be displayed on the main title page (the certificate/ratings page correctly shows both): the original one or the most recently-issued one? Fixing this is probably something that needs to be addressed with code changes, not content changes. I'll bring this up with the right folks, but it's probably not something we can resolve in the immediate future (I doubt this is a high priority over other changes).
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nick_burfle
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2 years ago
Thanks for the quick reply. Of course I'm aware films receive multiple ratings and that it results in situations like the current one. It seems obvious to me that the title page should show the current ratings, as that is what folks will most see and rely on, rather than any of one or more old, no longer valid ratings. I'm baffled that the certificate number could ever be considered an "attribute", as it does not condition the rating itself. If the number is known, it belongs (in my opinion) somewhere else, such as Trivia.
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