Warning: Parental Advisory (TV 2002)

The story of the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with "obscene" lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it.

Director:

Mark Waters

Writer:

Jay Martel

Stars:

Jason Priestley, Mariel Hemingway, Dee Snider

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jason Priestley	...	Charlie Burner
Mariel Hemingway	...	Tipper Gore
Dee Snider	...	Himself
Deborah Yates	...	Pamela Stone
Lois Chiles	...	Susan Baker
Tim Guinee	...	John Denver
Deborah Jolly	...	Shirley
Lee Burns	...	Andrew Norris
John S. Davies
Griffin Dunne	...	Frank Zappa
Jim Beatty	...	Al Gore
Richard Dillard	...	Senator Sam
Gail Cronauer	...	Sen. Paula Hawkins
Joe Berryman	...	Donald Bean
David Born	...	James Baker

Storyline

The story of the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with "obscene" lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it.

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Plot Keywords:

heavy metal | censorship | music industry | 1980s | free speech | 

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Taglines:

Censorship is a dirty word.

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Genres:

Drama | Comedy | Music

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 April 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

PMRC

Filming Locations:

Houston, Texas, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Charter Films Inc., Haft Entertainment, R.O.I. Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The music store depicted in the film is the interior of Sound Exchange, located at 1846 Richmond Avenue in the Montrose District in Houston, Texas. The "Sound Exchange" banner seen before the movie's end is actually the real banner used at the original location, at 1718 Westheimer, before the record store moved to its current location in 1997.

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Goofs

The end credits state none of Frank Zappa's albums received a Parental Advisory sticker, when in fact "Jazz From Hell" (ironically a purely instrumental album) was tagged with a Parental Advisory warning by the distributor.

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Crazy Credits

During the final credits, the movie cuts back and forth between the video for the Twisted Sister song "We're Not Gonna Take It" and shots of the movie's cast and crew dancing and singing along with the song.

User Reviews

Cartoonish, insulting and one-sided

Instead of creating an interesting in-depth documentary on the PMRC hearings the brains down at VH1 thought a made-for-tv comedy would be more interesting. Unfortunatly this ill conceived movie comes off as cartoonish, insulting and one-sided. The characterization is pretty ridiculous too, all the rock stars come off looking like lunatics and all the PMRC women come off looking like fascist whores!

On the plus side, the actors were all fairly convincing in their roles, with the exception of Dee Snider who cant even convincingly play himself.

Skip it! Hopefully a real documentary on the PMRC hearings will come along.