This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Directed by Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America 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.
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Jamie Babbit, who directed the lesbian-themed teen comedy "But I'm a Cheerleader," discovered that Jason Biggs violating a pastry in "American Pie" got an R, but Natasha Lyonne pleasuring herself (while thinking of a girl) got an NC-17.
That's what America believes," says John Waters (Pink Flamingos), who succinctly describes the dubious MPAA mindset.
Anyone who pays attention to ratings controversies, or who has seen Kirby Dick's excellent 2006 documentary on the MPAA, This Film is Not Yet Rated, knows that the ratings board is notoriously arbitrary and not prone to explaining their actions publicly.
If you have seen Kirby Dick’s excellent “This Film is Not Yet Rated,” you know that the MPAA ratings board is especially skittish about two things: sex between people of the same gender, and oral sex.