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Overview

User Rating:
7.6/10   8,429 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Kirby Dick (writer) &
Eddie Schmidt (writer) ...
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Release Date:
1 September 2006 (UK) more
Genre:
Tagline:
censorship, uncensored.
Plot:
Kirby Dick's exposé about the American movie ratings board. | full synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(25 articles)
I've Had It With the Mf'in MPAA and Their Mf'in Hypocrisy!!
 (From Cinematical. 3 November 2009, 12:03 PM, PST)

Why is 'Couples Retreat' Rated PG-13?
 (From Get The Big Picture. 17 September 2009, 8:13 PM, PDT)

User Reviews:
Very good insight in American censorship and media manipulation more (81 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kimberly Peirce ... Herself - Director of 'Boys Don't Cry'
Jon Lewis ... Himself - Author of 'Hollywood v. Hardcore'
David Ansen ... Himself - Film Critic at 'Newsweek'
Martin Garbus ... Himself - First Amendment Attorney and Filmmakers Representative at Appeals

Wayne Kramer ... Himself - Director of 'The Cooler'
Paul Dergarabedian ... Himself - Box Office Analyst

Kevin Smith ... Himself - Director of 'Clerks' and 'Jersey Girl'

John Waters ... Himself - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'

Matt Stone ... Himself - Producer of 'South Park' and 'Team America'
Richard Heffner ... Himself - Former Rating Board Chairman
Bingham Ray ... Himself - Co-Founder of October Films
Joel Federman ... Himself - Author of 'Media Ratings'
Kirby Dick ... Himself - Filmmaker and Interviewer
Jay Rosenzweig ... Himself - Private Investigator (as Jay)
Paul Huebl ... Himself - Private Investigator (as Paul)
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MPAA:
Rating surrendered; previous version rated NC-17 for some graphic sexual content.
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97 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Malaysia:(Banned) | UK:18 | Singapore:R21 | USA:Unrated (rating surrendered) | Netherlands:16 | USA:NC-17 (rating surrendered) | Argentina:18 | Canada:14A (Canadian Home Video rating/Manitoba/Ontario) | Australia:MA | Greece:K | USA:TV-MA (TV rating) | Portugal:M/12 | New Zealand:R13

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Trivia:
The MPAA announced that starting in March of 2007, it will change their policy and allow filmmakers to cite other film's ratings as comparison. The MPAA will also provide information about the demographics of its board. more
Quotes:
Herself - Rating Board Chairperson: We don't give out that information. more
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Features Strange Days (1995) more
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Cutie Pie more

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36 out of 42 people found the following review useful.
Very good insight in American censorship and media manipulation, 20 January 2007
8/10
Author: siderite from Romania

America is the land of the free, so in order to constrain people to do what you want them to do, you have to let them think it's their choice. How do you do that? You create a completely anonymous committee, supposedly composed of concerned parents, to rate the films that appear and, depending on that rating, they will get more or less media coverage, distribution, target audience size. You also finance this body with the money of the seven largest film studios in the US. This functioning censorship committee is called the MPAA.

The film is highly biased, to a point where it gets a little annoying, but the information contained in it is sound, proved and makes one think about the way public opinion is manipulated, ever so slightly, towards a desired average point of view. If you ever wondered how Americans can seem so ordinary, yet have completely different opinions about the same subjects as any other people, then this movie will answer part of that question. Very insightful is the presentation of the seven major film studios who own 95% of the American film industry, parts of larger conglomerates that own 90% of all mass-media. Also interesting, the role of the clergy in movie rating. Yes, I did say clergy, as in priests. In the appeals commission there are always an episcopalian priest and a catholic one. No other religions get to add their input.

A must see movie, not a conspiracy theory film, but certainly one that is against the system. The system here being the absurd movie rating system of the MPAA.

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