This Film Is Not Yet Rated

(2006)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 390 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2006

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Director: Kirby Dick

Cast: Кимберли Пирс, Jon Lewis, David Ansen, Martin Garbus, Wayne Kramer, Paul Dergarabedian, Кевин Смит, Джон Уотерс, Мэтт Стоун, Richard Heffner

Plot

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

In a rare and refreshing reversal of roles, filmmakers put the powerful Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA for short) under the microscope for inspection in Academy Award-nominated director Kirby Dick's incisive look at stateside cinema's most notorious non-censoring censors. Compelled by the staggering amount of power that the MPAA ratings board wields, the filmmaker seeks out the true identities of the anonymous elite who control what films make it to the multiplex. He even goes so far as to hire a private investigator to stake out MPAA headquarters and expose Hollywood's best-kept secret. Along the way, Dick speaks with numerous filmmakers whose careers have been affected by the seemingly random and sexual-content obsessed judgments of the MPAA, including John Waters, Mary Harron, Darren Aronofsky, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, and Atom Egoyan.