Almodovar Loses Appeal of X Rating
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NEW YORK — Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar lost a bid today to lift an X rating the Motion Picture Assn. of America gave his latest film, “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down.”
The MPAA’s appeals board voted 6-6 to sustain the rating despite an impassioned plea by civil rights lawyer William Kunstler. A rating can be overturned only with a two-thirds majority vote.
At issue was a sex scene in Almodovar’s film, “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down,” a black comedy about an escaped mental patient who kidnaps a porn actress and then gets her to fall in love with him by tying her up. The X rating restricts audiences to age 17 and older.
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