NC-17


Did this flick actually get an NC-17 rating, or did someone just put that in IMDB to get more people to want to see a "racy" flick? If it did receive an NC-17 from the MPAA, what was the reason for the rating? Thanks for your help.

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Very explicit

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That's ridiculous! I just saw this film in Germany today and it was rated 16.
The USA is SO sexually prudish but doesn't mind violence. I don't get it!

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The film does contain real sex - i.e not simulated. It does contain one shocking scene though where a client is shown pissing on one of the student escorts.

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It's the christian element that seems to be so popular in public policy. Sex is no no, mary was a virgin, jesus probably never got laid, gays are evil etc...
But violence of yes our bloody violent god destroying entire cities, prefers rape of virgins than rap of an angel, suggests enslaving young children and raping all the virgins of the tribe you just slaughtered etc

You see it makes a lot of sense when you take it in context of the violent immoral cult of christianity.

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Violence = PG13
Language = R
Sex = NC17
MPAA = Puratanical @$$holes!

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Agreed

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The USA is the porn capital of the world, idiot. We watch what we want. It is simply a rating.

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Haha, sorry but 16 instead of 17 is not that much of an improvement...

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From what I gathered NC-17 means you must be 18. 16 in Europe means 16, so it's a 2-year difference. Furthermore when I was a teen (in France) enforcement wasn't strong, as long as you looked about 14 you could enter and see a movie rated 16, without a parent. With an adult you could see it at any age, apparently NC-17 means you can't see it even with an adult.

Finally, this movie (Elles) was classed 12 in France !

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It's far from "very explicit", no penetration or that kind of scenes. They are however, sexual, and don't
fake some things that other films do (such as what the nature of sex is)

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Just saw it in NYC and it didn't deserve a NC-17 rating.

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its very good. almost as good as porn

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Bought it, watched it, liked it; I don't really think it deserved an NC-17 either other than the general tone of the film (sex, sex, sex!) The (***SPOILER***) water sports scene was no doubt what put the MPAA board over the edge. I bought it and it is packaged as unrated, yet the trailers (both green & red band versions available on the DVD) show an NC-17 rating. Love it!

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NC-17 is just a rating, infact it is the exact same rating as 18 in the UK the only difference is the perception. As long as people think of NC-17 must mean porn, then the stigma will stand. Also plenty of horror films get rated NC-17 for violence, then the directors go back and edit frame by frame until the MPAA allows an R rating. Usually movies that are rated NC-17 for sex don't have the same commercial appeal as horror, so it is less necessary to do that, seriously anyone who wants to see a French movie about prostitution won't be turned away by an NC-17 rating, and let's face it, even if it were R it was never going to get a wide release.

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Exactly. Unless you're under 17 and can't get into see them it seems very childish to rant and whine about MPAA ratings. And it's very true, many horror films do get reedited (every since Friday The 13th did have to go back for reediting). But if we must blame anyone we should blame the Theater Owners and Newspapers not hte MPAA though the MPAA was unwittingly the cuase of the problem. To make a long story short, in an effort to remove the stigma of the X rating (due to the porn industry usurping it) they created the NC-17 in 1990 to solve the very problem many of you are gripping about. It didn't work (Showgirls didn't help). So regardless of wheater or not sex is disproportionately singled out, if theaters and advertisers would be more willing to show the film/ads for hte film we wouldn't be having this discussion. But the MPAA is still better than the BBFC which requires a certificate. the MPAA is voluntary though studios usually do go through it and often have contracts to require directors to deliver R-rated cuts. So more is in play than some Christian Fascist MPAA

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