This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)

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NC-17 | 1 hr 37 mins | Documentary, Interview | Released: 9/1/2006 |Box Office Total: $0.3M

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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.

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Full Cast & Crew

Theatrical Release
9/1/2006

Director	Credit
Kirby Dick	Director
Cast	Credit
John Waters	Interviewee
Kevin Smith	Interviewee
Matt Stone	Interviewee
Kimberly Peirce	Interviewee
Atom Egoyan	Interviewee
Darren Aronofsky	Interviewee
Mary Harron	Interviewee
Maria Bello	Interviewee
Bingham Ray	Interviewee
Allison Anders	Interviewee
David Ansen	Interviewee
Jamie Babbit	Interviewee
Stephen Farber	Interviewee
Martin Garbus	Interviewee
Richard Heffner	Interviewee
Wayne Kramer	Interviewee
Lawrence Lessig	Interviewee
David L Robb	Interviewee
Mark Urman	Interviewee
Dr Theresa Webb	Interviewee
Becky Altringer	Herself
Cheryl Howell	Herself
Lindsey Howell	Herself
Production Credits	Credit
Jessica Wolfson	Supervising Producer
Megan Parlen	Associate Producer
Eddie Schmidt	Producer
Alison Palmer Bourke	Executive Producer
Evan Shapiro	Executive Producer
Production Companies	Credit
Chain Camera Pictures	Production Company
IFC Originals	Production Company
Distribution Companies	Credit
IFC (Independent Film Channel)	Domestic TV Distributor
British Broadcasting Company	Foreign TV Distributor
IFC Films	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
IFC Films	Domestic Video Distributor
Netflix	Domestic Theatrical Distributor
Film Camera	Credit
Shana Hagan	Cinematographer
Kirsten Johnson	Cinematographer
Amy Vincent	Cinematographer
Music	Credit
Dondi Bastone	Music Supervisor
Sound	Credit
Frank Smathers	Supervising Sound Editor

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