Ellen Degeneres, Drew Brees, Demi Lovato and Avan Tudor Jogia are some of the celebrities who have joined a high-school student’s fight to get a documentary about bullying seen by as many kids as possible.
I recently saw on The Ellen Degeneres Show, Katy Butler, a high school student from Michigan who has been bullied. She began a petition at Change.org to get the R rating changed to PG-13 so kids in school and all over can see this movie Bully.
It’s really important for kids to see this movie because kids are the ones that are doing the bullying in schools.
Demi wrote on her twitter “Please help repeal the R rating on ‘BULLY.’ EVERYONE should be able to see it. Sign the petition.”
Butler’s petition, which is also being officially supported by 20 members of Congress, has drawn more than 280,000 signatures. She delivered more than 200,000 of those signatures to the MPAA’s Los Angeles office last week.
“We’ve got the MPAA’s attention, and with nearly 300,000 signatures and support from celebrities and politicians, there’s now a national movement of people calling on the MPAA to drop the R rating for Bully,” Butler says. “As someone who lived through bullying day in and day out in school, including having my finger broken by bullies, this film is too important to silence with an R rating. Everyone should have a chance to see Bully.”
Watch the trailer and sign the petition now!
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