Filmmakers use NC-17 rating as marketing ploy
Los Angeles report on the NC-17 rating as a tool for marketing explicit adult films and its mixed reception. Filmmakers, video stores, and newspapers weigh the rating's usefulness while critics and the AFA challenge its legitimacy, and Blockbuster shifts policy amid boycotts.
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