Since it is Woody Allen, it wouldn't be violence but I also doubt that it is graphic sex or nudity. Mostly just because of language and adult themes, right?
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Yeah there's a couple of f words but that's about it really. It's rated 15 in the UK but even that's a little strong I think.
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I don't even think it has the F-word in it.
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It does. After Yale dumps Mary, he suggests she take Isaac to some even they were going to go to together and she replies "f|_|ck off Yale".
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Yes, I watched it again since I wrote this and I noticed she also said, "I say what's on my mind and if you don't like it, well, *eff* off!"
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Forget the F word. It's because it shows an illegal relationship with a minor in a favorable light and female homosexuality as routine. Further you have to put it in late 70's context. But come to think, even today I would say the R classification is in line with what would be the preferred criteria of most parents.
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yes it has it, when Mary is talking to Yale and they are breaking up and having coffee, she says "*beep* off" or something like that...
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Yes. The F word is dropped twice in Manhattan and that's what gives it the R rating. It's actually the MPAA's most straightforward and uncomplicated rule: If the F word appears once -no problem. If it appears twice - automatic R rating.
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It's probably because he's dating a minor in the movie and that's terribly frowned upon.
shareThat's it exactly! In the book "The Final Cut" the author was an executive at United Artists when "Manhattan" was being rated. They were told it was getting an R because Diane Keaton used the "f" word one too often. They appealed it and the head of the MPAA saw it and said it was R because Allen was sleeping with a teenage girl. Nothing is shown but that was pretty extreme for 1979.
shareIt would be soft (PG-13) standards today (consdiering some PG-13 titles have worse langauge), but the underage sex may seem be to be still controversial (but less so).
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but the underage sex may seem be to be still controversial (but less so).
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watching a peado seduce a child is an R rating worthy
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I remember reading at the time that Woody Allen appealed the R-rating, which was for use of the F word. He lost the appeal. There was no PG-13 yet, so it fell into the "soft-R" category.
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I think its possibly because of Allen's near-paedophillic courtship with Tracy? I'm just guessing it didn't sit well with many regulators back in those days. Adultery theme wasn't enough and the F words were only a few for it to have earned an 'R'.
shareI thought I remember reading that the MPAA would allow a PG movie one "F bomb" before being downgraded to the dreaded R rating. (Tootsie, for example, got away with one.) Manhattan has at least two, and that apparently was enough to give it the R rating.
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