Despite frantically chopping and trimming and sawing and hacking, Atom Egoyan and the producers of his new movie, Where the Truth Lies, failed to have the film's NC-17 rating overturned yesterday. Egoyan was quoted in the Hollywood Reporter as saying, "We couldn't trim any more without destroying the heart of the movie." And as it turns out, the beating, blood-pumping life force of this particular flick happens to be a three-way. And we're not talkin' 'bout the Skyline Chili kind, neither.
After failing to secure a more acceptable R rating after cutting, ThinkFilm (Where the Truth Lies's distributor) said "fuck it" and are just going to release the megadirty, uncut original version that premiered at Cannes. And speaking of uncut, British stuffed shirt Colin Firth is a piece of bread in the man sandwich, as is Kevin Bacon, a delightful actor who cheerfully agrees to appear in any film that includes a nice mÈnage. The meat is played by one Rachel Blanchard, who makes her debut nude scene count here. Although Rachel ponies up some T&A action, we're not sure whether or not we see Bacon's bacon or Firth's girth–it seems that what the censors objected to was not frontal weenis flesh, but the depicition of "thrusting". At any rate, the NC-17 rating stays, and said thrusting will only be able to be viewed by grown-ups, teens who sneak in under the ruse of seeing Undiscovered, and 8-year-olds accompanying their terrible parents. Thanks for keeping us safe from the thrusting, censor guys!
More Rachel Blanchard at MrSkin.com.
More Bacon at MaleStars.com.
And more Firth at MaleStars.com.
Where the Truth Lies: In Kevin Bacon's Pants, Natch
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