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MPAA ON TRIAL: “BAD EDUCATION”

By | March 2005

For the most part, the MPAA offers a great service to the community by rating films in appropriation to age. Every once in a while, however, things go terribly awry. Michael Ferraro takes a look at some of these more questionable calls by the MPAA…this week, Pedro Almodovar’s “Bad Education”…

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