we are visiting with lee and we have jackie and alex and philip libby out of the oklahoma. was followed a lot in the film. alex, i told you how proud i am of you for the courage. you are in a new school and your family moved from the place you were bullied and are things better for you now and you are feeling better with life? >> yes. i mean, it has gotten so much better and i have tons of friend and have good grades. so. >> mike: i am so glad. no one deserves to be treated like you were. and i am so grateful that your parents showed a lot of courage and made a sacrifice to move and put you in a school that you would be respect treated with dignity and a citizen of worth . i want to say thanks to jack yephilip. again, your courage as a mother and father. this movie is rated r and i don't understand why. i watched it and i have seen on television that are far worse. i know it is parent for you to try to get the motion picture association to change that rating. is that likely to happen? >> chris: i >> guest: the petition has shy of 600,000 signatures and started by a girl fro

year, the filmmakers followed families of bullied kids around the country including 12-year-old alex libby>> i feel kind of nervous going to school. >> reporter: as the cameras rolled, the taunts continued. on the bus and on the schools. the film shows what happened when alex's parents turned to the school for help. >> he's not safe on that bus. >> i have been on that bus. they are just as good as gold. >> reporter: for the producer and director, making the film was also personal. >> i was bullied as a kid, and i think as a filmmaker it was something that i really carried with me. >> reporter: the film's graphic language earned it an "r" rating. children under 17 need to be accompanied by an adult. some say that will make it harder for those most affected by the problem to see the film. the filmmakers and others including ellen degeneres are lobbying hard to get it changed to pg-13 saying the film could save lives. a michigan teen and anti-bullying advocate delivered a petition with more than 250,000 signatures to the movies ratings board. >> i thought it was a bad idea because the target

. >> alex libby was 12 when cameras spent a year at his school in iowa, getting to know kids who facedsical and verbal abuse. >> they punched me in the jaw, strangle me, and knock things out of my hand. >> the film opens with a father who lost his son to suicide. >> some kids had told him to go hang himself, that he's worthless. i think he got to the point where enough was enough. >> two people to a seat. [ bleep ] >> harsh language, including six f-words earned the film an r-rating. after losing an appeal for a pg-13, producers took the unusual step of releasing the film with no rating. we watched the trailer with these 13-year-olds at a middle school in bedford, new york. >> do you want to see the film? >> yes. >> there are some people who think this movie is way too tough for kids. >> is school too tough for kids? we see all that and more every day. that's just how kids act. >> the film shined a spotlight on the impact of bullying, but school psychologists say kids will need help finding solutions. >> teachers, administrators, school board, parents, those are the ones i would love t

when i appeared before the npaa i brought alex libby, who is one of the young boys we just saw in thep from the movie. he was so incredibly impressive about wanting to have kids see the movies and having kids exact peer pressure. when i was a kid and my mom took me to "sound of music", i ran out of the theater. anything that spells like medicine, no kid is going to see. they should see it and make their own decision. i thought the rating was really not called for and really unsympathetic. >> what i thought was so utterly ridiculous is that hunger games has come out and it's a very popular movie and it's about kids killing kids. that kids a pg-13 rating. how can they justify that? >> i don't know how they justify it. i saw hunger games. it's a fun, terrific ride. great book. incredible. good directing. good everything. there's sa scene in the movie where in the course of 30 or 40 seconds ten kids are massacred. you see a 10-year-old get killed. how the hell does that get a -- pg-13 rating? >> i really can't understand is that hypocrisy. i've got four kids. three teenagers. one near tee

alex libby and his parents on huckabee tonight. >> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [applaus [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. what a great audience, full of life and energy. and we're live from new york, welcome to huckabee from the fox news studios. let me, first of all, begin by special announcement. former vice-president dick cheney we learned before the show is recovering from heart transplant surgery that took place just outside of washington d.c. in a hospital in virginia. our thoughts and our prayers go to former vice-president cheney and his family and we're grateful for the medical procedure that makes this possible. that just happened earlier today. well, president obama said this week that a president can't do much about the cost of fuel. and he continues to promote green energy. hey, i'm all for green energy. but i 'm also for common sense. we're not close to green energy thanks to the cronyism handing to pals at the white house for a solyndra solar plant to build a nice building, give big bucks in bonuses to their execs and shut the thing do

we had alex libby, one of the kids bullied appeal to the mpaa. i'm supposedly this really tough guy. i keep reading about that. i was crying in his appeal. i'm looking at these -- we lost by one vote. they just took it too legalistically. there have been other movies where there were uses of the f word and they overturned it because it was about the iraq war. you it's not about the brutal violence. it's the use of the f-word. if we got rid of that, the movie would be a pg-13. >> editing is not an option to consider? >> no. the kids don't want to consider it because it's the true. the kids use. f-word to bully the kitds. it's part of the movie. it's not like they haven't seen it. there's so many anecdotal of kids watching and people watching, telling me they watch it with their 12-year-old and 13-year-old and it's so important that they see it and so important that they go to the theaters. >> some will say not that you're a tough guy, you understand the bottom line and that you can get a better rating, you'll get more money on the bottom line. >>