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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: WITNESS (spoiler) and R ratings
Message-ID: <2368@mit-hermes.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 20:20:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 20:20:04 1985
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> But I too am bothered by the inclusion of the "tit shot".  This 
> ... was included strictly to get the coveted "R" rating.
> Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug

If this is true, then I'm pretty disgusted. Here's a movie with three people
getting killed (one cut throat, one suffocated in a grain silo (at least 
that one's original) and one shot right through the body with blood on the
wall behind him), along with a couple of beatings and a family being held
hostage by a desperate drug dealer. And this would get rated PG? While
we'd keep kids out of the theater in case they saw--(wait for it)--
a pair of breasts?

Just what are our priorities?