Julia Roberts and Co. Fighting Off 'R' Rating for Eat Pray Love
The latest MPAA ratings bulletin reveals that Eat Pray Love -- that globetrotting, face-making paean to one woman's post-Franco self-discovery -- received an R from the association's ratings board. Unless someone spiked Julia Roberts's dialogue with a sexually connoted F-bomb, not even the folks at Sony seem to understand how this might have happened.
According to the bulletin released Wednesday, the R-rating will be appealed by Team EPL. Sony today declined Movieline's request for comment as to who exactly that would be (writer-director Ryan Murphy? Studio execs? Co-producers Roberts and Brad Pitt? All of the above and a ritualistic puppy sacrifice as required by the MPAA's Classification and Ratings Administrations?) or when that would occur. A studio rep also declined comment as to what constitutes the "brief strong language" to which the ratings board objects, or whether or not Murphy would be required to cut the offending language rather than release EPL with an R.
Ultimately, it's hard to imagine a scenario where an R-rating dramatically impacts this one. It's a single-quadrant film based on a single-quadrant bestseller. The only teens or kids who'd likely attend are the young girls who'd be going along with their mothers anyway. That said, anyone have any ideas what saltiness they'll be exposed to if Team EPL loses its appeal? Should we perhaps inquire if the C-word has any comment?
· MPAA ratings: May 19, 2010 [THR]
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The producers should shut their yaps. It can surely only be improved with an R rating.
Having seen a test screening, I can tell you the R rating means Rotten. Never read the book, but from what I hear about said book, at least it finds excuses for/addresses its horrific myopia somewhat cleverly. Possibly the most baffling, misbegotten exercise in the entire White Lady Has A Problem, Brown People Pitch In To Help oeuvre, this movie is going to sink to the bottom of the late summer release toilet like the tone-deaf, Ryan Murphy sized turd it is. Boy is it rotten. Goes nowhere interesting, says nothing new, and doesn't even do the basic job of selling the audience on the beauty of its locations. Huge, HUGE miss. Murphy needs to stay the hell away from movies. He just doesn't get it.
Huge, HUGE miss(take). Where have I heard that before....
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