This Film is Not Yet Rated | RATED ARGGH Exasperation at the rating system leads Lindsey Howell and Becky Altringer (along with director Dick) to stake out the MPAA in This Film...
RATED ARGGH Exasperation at the rating system leads Lindsey Howell and Becky Altringer (along with director Dick) to stake out the MPAA in This Film...
DVD Review

This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2007)

Reviewed by Jeff Labrecque | Jan 19, 2007
EW's GRADE
B+

Details Release Date: Jan 23, 2007; DVD Release Date: Jan 23, 2007; Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Documentary; With: Kirby Dick; Distributor: IFC Films

Documentarian Kirby Dick exposes the Motion Picture Association of America's arcane ratings policy in This Film Is Not Yet Rated. (Certain depictions of sex are no-no's, while the MPAA looks the other way at excessive violence.) This Film... was initially slapped with an NC-17, due to ''naughty'' snippets of films like Boys Don't Cry, but Dick was tickled to learn his doc so spooked the MPAA that it violated its own piracy restrictions by making a secret copy. EXTRAS A highlight: John Waters' recollection of the MPAA's insistence on ''proper'' fellatio technique. B+

Originally posted Jan 19, 2007 Published in issue #917 Jan 26, 2007 Order article reprints
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