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15938, Banned by the government
Posted by izzattafakt, Mon Mar-25-02 07:50 AM
Unofficially, of course, because the U.S. doesn't censor :-)

I took a class once where we saw this film. I had heard about it but when I actually saw it I was blown away. I got a copy but it was kind hard to come by, I dunno if the distribution has picked up recently...

But when the film first came out the prof. was telling us that it freaked out a lot of people, that the distributor pulled it from theaters after a short time, even though it was doing well at the box office, and that the original master print was mysteriously destroyed in a warehouse fire...hmmm....

Well worth seeing if you can find it, but you'll prolly have to look deeper than Blockbuster...A movie anywhere even CLOSE to that would never get greenlit today by a studio, but I could see an adventurous indie cat doing something like that...If they weren't ever interested in crossing over to do studio work, cause they'd prolly get blacklisted...

peace

Iz

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