Medium Cool (1969) [reclassified 2018]

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Synopsis

Drama. A news cameraman (Robert Forester) begins a relationship with a single mother (Verna Bloom) amidst the turmoil surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions
• Infrequent depictions and portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence, some in a civil unrest context - some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - breast nudity, some detail
• Infrequent male and female frontal and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol and tobacco use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• The role of the media
• Sensationalism and exploitation
• Race and class in America

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for coarse language, nudity, and sexual content in a dramatic context

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