Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.
- sexuality
- orgasm
- bias
- private investigator
- rating
- hypocrisy
- censorship
- mpaa
- corporation
- film production
The bill
Kimberly Peirce
Self - Director of 'Boys Don't Cry'
Jon Lewis
Self - Author of 'Hollywood v. Hardcore'
David Ansen
Self - Film Critic at 'Newsweek'
Martin Garbus
Self - First Amendment Attorney
- Wayne Kramer — Self - Director of 'The Cooler'
- Paul Dergarabedian — Self - Box Office Analyst
- Kevin Smith — Self - Director of 'Clerks' and 'Jersey Girl'
- John Waters — Self - Director of 'A Dirty Shame'
- Matt Stone — Self - Producer of 'South Park' and 'Team America'
- Richard Heffner — Self - Former Rating Board Chairman
- Bingham Ray — Self - Co-Founder of October Films
- Joel Federman — Self - Author of 'Media Ratings'
- Kirby Dick — Self - Filmmaker and Interviewer
- Jay Rosenzweig — Self - Private Investigator
- Paul Huebl — Self - Private Investigator
- Directed
- Kirby Dick
- Written
- Kirby Dick, Eddie Schmidt, Matt Patterson
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 389 ratings
- Studio
- BBC, Chain Camera Pictures
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