This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)

Directed by

Kirby Dick

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 380 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary investigates the Motion Picture Association of America's film rating system. It examines how the ratings treat violence versus sex and independent versus studio films.

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What happens

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a 2006 American documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release on September 1, 2006. IFC, the film's distributor, aired the film later that year. The film discusses a number of alleged disparities in the ratings the MPAA gives films and the feedback it gives filmmakers based on whether the project is a studio or independent film, whether the questionable content is violent or sexual in nature, and whether sexual content is heterosexual or homosexual and it centers on male or female pleasure. The film includes numerous clips from films rated NC-17 to illustrate content that had garnered the rating. Therefore, the MPAA rated an early version of the film NC-17 due to "some graphic sexual content". Dick appealed this rating so he could chronicle both the rating and appeals process of the early version of the film in the final version, which, true to the title, is not rated. (It should however be noted that this film has been classified in the UK by the BBFC, and has been classified at 18. The 18 rating has much less stigma in the UK than NC-17 has in the USA.) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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