NC-17 Definition & Meaning

NC-17

[en-see-sev-uhn-teen]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Trademark.��no children 17 and under: a rating assigned to a movie by the MPA advising that persons under the age of 18 will not be admitted to a theater showing the film.

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Origin of NC-17¹

An American designation established as a replacement for the rating designation X ³ ( def. 8 ) in 1990

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The original version was rated NC-17, but American audiences — thanks to paranoid distributors — got the slightly shorter, R-rated cut.

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The spicy NC-17 cut of David Cronenberg’s “Crash” will be virtually introduced by “You Must Remember This” podcaster and writer Karina Longworth.

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He considers the sex scenes in Passages, the first movie in years to get an NC-17 rating.

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Those scenes led the M.P.A. to give the film a surprise NC-17 rating.

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An NC-17 rating precludes anyone under 17 from being admitted, with or without a parent of guardian.

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