You have my uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-unmitigated support
First the nekkid and necking
Batman and Robin. And now it's official, Canadian movie darling
Atom Egoyan's new flick was
"stamped [with] a harsh 'NC-17' rating Wednesday... a move the acclaimed director has said will sharply limit the film's American audience.
"The rating was earned 'for some explicit sexuality,' Joan Graves, of the
Motion Picture Association of America, said from Los Angeles. The decision means that no one 17 years of age or under in the United States can see the film, even with a parent or guardian."
Y'all know the drill -- in the words of AfterEllen.com
columnist Sarah Warn, "Director Atom Egoyan's latest film
'Where the Truth Lies,' starring
Kevin Bacon, Rachel Blanchard and
Colin Firth, has reportedly received the dreaded NC-17 rating due to an extended threesome with the lead actors, and a lesbian sex scene involving a woman dressed as Alice in Wonderland. Not surprisingly, the ratings board had a bigger problem with the threesome than the lesbian scene, according to the New York Daily News. It's one big version of Rock, Paper, Scissors: two naked men in the same room together will trump gratuitous lesbianism every time."
Yup. Homophobic yuckiness. And Egoyan will fight the rating. But dammit, I'm sooooo tired of having to defend bad art. Egoyan's movies can be silly and dumb.
Rah, rah, Atom Egoyan. Sigh.