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‘Eat Pray Love,’ now for kids!

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All the 13-year-olds who were hoping to see Julia Roberts turn her life around after a divorce can rest easy: ‘Eat Pray Love’ has been upgraded from an R to a PG-13 by the Motion Picture Assn. of America.

But filmgoers may get a little more than they bargained for when they head out to see the New Age-y romantic comedy. According to a statement from the group’s Classification and Rating Appeals Board, the movie had been given an ‘R rating for ‘brief strong language.’ The film is now rated PG-13 for ‘brief strong language, some sexual references and male rear nudity.’ So it got some male rear nudity and then landed a looser rating. The ways of the MPAA are mysterious.

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--Steven Zeitchik

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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