SHOCKER! Eat Pray Love Receives PG-13 on Appeal

Sony and director Ryan Murphy may not have had much to say about their strategy to reverse Eat Pray Love's initial R-rating, but either way it worked. Murphy and producer Dede Gardner successfully (and perhaps predictably) made their case for a softer rating, turing an R for "brief strong language" into a PG-13 for "brief strong language, some sexual references and male rear nudity." Yeah, it makes no sense to me either, but all that matters is that all those pending mother-daughter bonding trips are on. [THR]