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Overview
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Jay Martel (written by)
Release Date:
21 April 2002 (USA) more
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Censorship is a dirty word.
Plot:
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. | add synopsis
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Better than I expected (more than the usual VH1 movie dramatization) more (19 total)
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 |
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PMRC (USA) (working title)
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100 min
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The Senate hearing room is actually the Houston City Council chambers, located on the second floor at the Houston City Hall building, 901 Bagby, in Houston, Texas. The council members names were digitally erased during filming at City Hall. A brief scene takes place in front of the Sam Houston statue at Hermann Park, which resembles part of Washington, D.C. more
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Factual errors: 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. more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Warning: Parental Advisory (2002) (TV)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| No DVD in the US? | MetalGeek |
| DVD | spensolo |
| i need it! | grenadinecros |
| The accuracy of the musicians statements. | slipzen |
| Golden Shower Song | jay_wyer |
| Zappa tape... | spotts-2 |
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While Warning: Parental Advisory lags when it focuses on the worries and quandaries of the character played by Jason Priestly (he seems like the only character not based on fact in this movie), it gives more than you'd think. Griffin Dunne transforms amazingly into Frank Zappa and plays it with a great deal of realism, along with some lone clichés, and humor. Dee Snider plays himself, and I wasn't covering my eyes, and whoever played John Denver didn't do that bad of a job either. Even Mariel Hemmingway gets props for playing the strident and uptight Tipper Gore who headed the PMRC. These characters come together, more or less, to enact the events that came about in the mid-80's due to rock content. When it makes its points, they are made with a degree of corniness, and also poignancy. Possibly the only good VH1 movie to date. B+