How this movie got only an R Rating?
It seemed to have a lot more in it than in some NC-17 movies I have seen.
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I had always thought that young male full frontal nudity was frowned upon by the board and the breast sucking scene while not sexual in nature I thought would raise eyebrows.
A movie like Bad Education though got a NC-17 and Ithought Pixote was a bit heavier, no slight to Almodovar
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It isn't a slasher flick, and it isn't porno trash. It is a brilliant and important film about something that is happening in our world. It should therefore have no silly rating, and be available to be seen by everybody.
shareIt isn't a slasher flick, and it isn't porno trash.Of course the same can be said for "Bad Education", and "Lust, Caution", and "Last Tango in Paris. All of which are rated NC-17.
I think when the movie first came out in the US in theaters, it played at art houses with an unrated version. That was quite common in the 70's, 80' and even the early 90's. Since there was a cost associated with submitting a film to the MPAA for a rating and many foreign and indie films had small profit margins, many were not submitted to the ratings board and released unrated.
If the film became a success at the art houses in the major cities, then it might be submitted to the MPAA for a rating so it could be given a wider release around the country. Most areas outside the major cities required that the film be rated and usually rated R. Also it helped to have a rating for when a film was released on VHS since some video stores would not stock an unrated or X rated movie. There were a number of foreign films that I saw in New York back in those days that I could tell had been cut when I saw them again on cable or VHS. And generally it is these edited down VHS and cable versions of the films that are floating around many years later (and transferred to DVD).
Nowadays the situation had flipped around. Usually a film needs the R rating to play in just about any theater (and to be advertised in most US newspapers). Then after the theatrical run, all the cut portions get restored for the unrated DVD and for late night cable screenings. So this is probably why there are different edits of "Pixote" still out there.
Also there are fewer truly "independent" distributors of these films. Most are owned by larger companies that are MPAA members, so they are required to only release films that have been rated.
As another poster commented, back in the 70's and 80's, movies could get an R rating with sexual content that would get you an NC-17 today.
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It's a Brazilian film... the MPAA is irrelevant.
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