Nish-Nish! Gay comedy ‘Bruno’ gets an NC-17 rating
From TheWrap.com about Sacha Baron Cohen‘s comedy/documentary ”Bruno” which features the cross-the-line behavior of the Cohen’s title character, a swishy gay fashion reporter from Austria, which often plays off of people’s homophobia & vapid viewpoints about fashion trends:
Among the objectionable scenes is one in which Bruno–a gay Austrian fashionista played by Baron Cohen–appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor. A Universal spokesman confirmed the rating on Sunday, saying: ‘On its first submission the film did not receive an R but it is far too early to say that there is any struggle to get there as the process is only at its inception.”
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