From the course: 2011 SBIFF Producers' Panel: Movers and Shakers

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The MPAA and ratings

The MPAA and ratings

Patrick Goldstein: So I want to put you on the spot, because I read the other day that Harvey Weinstein, who is distributing the film and helping bring it to a wider audience, he has been--I think he sort of floated a trial balloon talking about cutting the now legendary moment where the king curses. As a way to get him through his stutter, he starts rattling off a whole list of obscenities, and that is the one moment in this otherwise very traditional film that earned it an R rating, and there's been a lot of hubbub about the unfairness of that. So Harvey is talking about cutting that to get a PG-13 to find a broader audience, and I assume your director, Tom Hooper, will have to weigh in on this, but I'd like to know what do you think. Iain Canning: I love the "cut," such a dramatic word in that sense. We did--we have all been involved in the conversations. We just feel that we want as many people to see the film as possible. Certainly in the UK it is widening out in terms of the…

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