R-rating is gonna sink this movie.
Who is the audience? Anyone?
shareThat's what I was thinking. I suspect it's a very soft R that the filmmakers thought they could get a PG13 for. If you look at the rating description "For sexual content and brief drug use" this suggests my point. If they knew it was going to get an R they would have surely inserted some language into it and I notice the rating description says "sex" but not "nudity." Probably the MPAA being overly prude as usual. I reckon this will get a 12A in the UK, normally equivalent to a PG13.
shareOnly "some sexual content" which suggests sex is fairly limited.
shareit's only R for Dialogue and sexual themes, theres only one F-bomb and theres barely anything else, some dialogue may be questionable but its a very very soft R
shareYeah, that makes it weirder. With slight edits, it could've been a hard PG13, and more families would go to this.
Maybe a National Lampoon movie was the last R-rated movie about a comedic family? "Liitle Miss Sunshine"? But that movie was real good.
i just saw a screening of it with the director present and he was asked why he didnt appeal and simply put, the budget is too low for them to pay for the appeal process, and they edited it down as much as possible and they still got R,
apparently the shot that had the most issue was a close up of an xtc pill, but the shot was needed for story reason so it couldnt be cut.