This Film Is Not Yet Rated

This Film is Not Yet Rated is a 2006 American documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of Americas rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released limited on September 1, 2006. The Independent Film Channel, the films producer, aired the film later that year. It was rated TVMA in the United States.

Much of the films press coverage was devoted to Dick and his crews use of private investigator Becky Altringer to unmask the identities of the ratings and appeals board members.Other revelations in the film include the discovery that many ratings board members either have childrenand over or have no children at all typically, the MPAA has suggested it hires only parents with children between the ages ofandthat the board seems to treat homosexual material much more harshly than heterosexual material this assertion is supported by an MPAA spokespersons statement in USA Today that We dont create standards we just follow them that the boards raters receive no training and are deliberately chosen because of their lack of expertise in media literacy or child development that senior raters have direct contact in the form of mandatory meetings with studio personnel after movie screenings and that the MPAAs appeals board is just as secretive as the ratings board, its members being mostly movie theater chain and studio executives. Also included on the appeals board are two members of the clergy one Catholic and one Protestant, who may or may not have voting power. ........

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