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Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Kirby Dick
Kimberly Peirce
Richard Heffner
Bingham Ray
Cheryl Howell
David Ansen
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The MPAA, a lobbying organization for the movie industry, maintains a rating system first implemented in 1968 by longtime president Jack Valenti. This system, with its age based content classification using letter grades G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 (formerly X), has become a cultural icon. But behind its simple façade is a censoring process kept entirely secret. Board members are anonymous; deliberations are private; standards are seemingly arbitrary. Thus, the trade organization for the largest media corporations in America also keeps a trademarked lock on content regulation over our most unique and popular art form. Filmmaker Kirby Dick asks whether Hollywood movies and independent films are rated equally for comparable content; whether sexual content in gay-themed movies is given harsher ratings penalties than their heterosexual counterparts; whether it makes sense that extreme violence is given an R rating while sexuality is banished to the cutting room floor; whether Hollywood studios receive detailed directions as to how to change an NC-17 film into an R, while independent film producers are left guessing; and finally, whether keeping the raters and the rating process secret leaves the MPAA entirely unaccountable for its decisions.
Director
Kirby Dick
Cast
Kimberly Peirce
Richard Heffner
Bingham Ray
Cheryl Howell
David Ansen
Stephen Farber
Dr. Theresa Webb
Lindsey Howell
Darren Aronofsky
Martin Garbus
Maria Bello
Kevin Smith
Jamie Babbit
John Waters
Becky Altringer
Mary Harron
Lawrence Lessig
Allison Anders
Matt Stone
David L Robb
Wayne Kramer
Mark Urman
Atom Egoyan
Crew
Becky Altringer
Dondi Bastone
Matt Clarke
Shana Hagan
Shana Hagan
Cheryl Howell
Lindsey Howell
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson
Alison Palmer
Megan Parlen
Bingham Ray
Eddie Schmidt
Evan Shapiro
Frank Smathers
Amy Vincent
Amy Vincent
Jessica Wolfson
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States January 2006
Released in United States March 2006
Released in United States on Video January 23, 2007
Released in United States Summer September 1, 2006
Shown at South by Southwest Film Festival ('Round Midnight) March 10-18, 2006.
Picked up to production for the 2006-2007 season.
BBC acquired British broadcast rights at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Scheduled to air in USA on IFC Network in Fall 2006.
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States January 2006 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (Premiere) January 19-29, 2006.)
Released in United States on Video January 23, 2007
Released in United States March 2006 (Shown at South by Southwest Film Festival ('Round Midnight) March 10-18, 2006.)
Released in United States Summer September 1, 2006
