The Weinstein Company has persuaded the MPAA to overturn its initial, incredibly lame decision to give Stephen Frears‘ Philomena an R rating, and thereby changing it to PG-13. It was all over the second use of an eff word in the film. (The MPAA will let you slide with one eff but two means an R.) The Weinstein argument was presented to the appeals board by Bert Fields, Motion Picture Consulting LLC’s Ethan Noble and Philomena star, producer and co-screenwriter Steve Coogan.

November 13, 2013by Jeffrey Wells7 Comments