This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a documentary about the shady, underside of the film industry, the MPAA, and it's secretive rating system. Director Kirby Dick exposes the biases in the rating system between sex and violence in film, homosexual versus heterosexual sex scenes, and the lack of any kind of published guidelines as to why one movie may get a PG-13 for instance while another very similar movie will get an R, or NC-17.
From there he segways into the secretive world of the raters themselves, interviewing some former raters, exposing current raters, and how they differ from the 'normal parents of 5-17 year old kids' that the MPAA claims they are, and finally exposes the appeals process. Dick manages to make the documentary light and fun with lots of interviews from film-makers like John Waters, Kevin Smith and Matt Stone. I definitely enjoyed this doc.
From there he segways into the secretive world of the raters themselves, interviewing some former raters, exposing current raters, and how they differ from the 'normal parents of 5-17 year old kids' that the MPAA claims they are, and finally exposes the appeals process. Dick manages to make the documentary light and fun with lots of interviews from film-makers like John Waters, Kevin Smith and Matt Stone. I definitely enjoyed this doc.
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