This Film Is Not Yet Rated

This Film Is Not Yet Rated
The poster shows a nude person (seen with an MPAA tattoo) who was branded on its buttock with a sign reading "This film is not yet Rated" with the sign being shown. The word "RATED" is seen separated with the letter "R" in its own square. Text below it reads "censorship, uncensored."
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKirby Dick
Written by
Produced byEddie Schmidt
Starring
  • Kirby Dick
  • Becky Altringer
Cinematography
Edited byMatthew Clarke
Music byMichael S. Patterson
Production
companies
  • Chain Camera
  • BBC
Distributed byIFC
Release dates
  • January 25, 2006 (2006-01-25) (Sundance)
  • September 1, 2006 (2006-09-01) (United States)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States[1][2]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$339,609[3]

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is a 2006 American documentary film about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture, directed by Kirby Dick and produced by Eddie Schmidt. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and received a limited theatrical release on September 1, 2006. IFC, the film's distributor, aired the film later that year.

The film discusses a number of alleged disparities in the ratings the MPAA gives films and the feedback it gives filmmakers based on whether the project is a studio or independent film, whether the questionable content is violent or sexual in nature, and whether sexual content is heterosexual or homosexual and it centers on male or female pleasure.

The film includes numerous clips from films rated NC-17 to illustrate content that had garnered the rating. Therefore, the MPAA rated an early version of the film NC-17 due to "some graphic sexual content". Dick appealed this rating so he could chronicle both the rating and appeals process of the early version of the film in the final version, which, true to the title, is not rated.

  1. ^ "This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
  2. ^ "This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)". British Film Institute. Retrieved December 10, 2023.
  3. ^ "This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. December 21, 2006. Retrieved September 7, 2014.