The US poster for Everything's Gone Green, the film scripted by author Douglas Coupland, has just hit the web and while I greatly prefer the Canadian one myself - you can see that here - this is noteworthy thanks to the general idiocy of the MPAA.
See, this poster should've been done a while ago. But the MPAA wouldn't allow the original design to be used because it included a pot leaf within it. And, bizarrely, they have also hit the film with an R rating, meaning nobody under 18 can go see it without being accompanied by an adult. Now, I've seen this film and it aint R rated. Here in Canada the harshest rating it has received is 14A - adult accompaniment under 14 - with most provinces giving it a PG and Quebec actually rating it General Admission. Go figure.
Check a larger version of the poster here.
Official Website Here.
My review here.
i never understood why censorship is so harsh in the states. wasn't Bridget Jones Diary rated R over there? everytime i hit the theatres here in Toronto, i mostly see PG and 14A
i guess being too lax can be an issue too though. Pan's Labyrinth is rated 14A here and i remember a lot of ignorant parents brought their children to watch that film at the cinema i was at. most of them left after that scene with the knife in the mouth...