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...just when this sexual liberality looked imminent, or at least plausible, cinema boomeranged from a medium where adults could examine their passions to one where kids could get their thrills. Jaws, Star Warsand their countless progeny made the movie house a glorified baby sitter; and not just film sex but film romance came close to disappearing on the big screen. In mainstream movies, words got gamier, pictures more inhibited. A comedy called Meet the Fockerscould get a PG-13 rating (and clean up at the box office), but a comedy in which you would meet actual... fockers... was impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the F---ers | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

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