Lee Hirsch

Everyone can breathe easy now. After a months-long public battle over the R-rating for "Bully," in which outrage over the standards of the MPAA rating...

Bully is a documentary that not only follows bullying victims; it gives us a look at their whole environment -- parents, other kids, teachers and communities. We see there's no single cause of it, and that it can't be solved one kid at a time.

When you see what Alex endures on a daily basis and imagine yourself in his shoes, it becomes starkly evident how bullying would make any kid want to avoid school or do something even more drastic to end their suffering, and why it's vital that we make our schools bully-free environments.

When I first heard that the Weinstein Company had lost its appeal to overturn the R rating that the MPAA had given to Lee Hirsch's film Bully, I was taken back to 2005 when we opted for an appeal for our Iraq War film Gunner Palace after it also received an R for language.

Despite the R-rating given to the forthcoming movie "Bully" over its sometimes profane language, a multitude of people would really like teens not to ...

Who's the bully in this case -- movie mogul Harvey Weinstein or the MPAA ratings board? As expected, the MPAA turned down Weinstein's appeal over t...