 The Classification and Rating Administration had originally voted unanimously for a PG rating (five years before the PG-13 rating was available for use).However, CARA chair Richard Heffner then viewed the film and called the board for further discussion to consider voting for an R rating instead.Although the theme of a film could potentially be accommodated within a PG rating, Heffner argued that this film's treatment of its theme was too unsettling for most parents to want it to be freely available to unaccompanied children.