David Schwimmer, MPAA Flap: 'R' Rating For Movie Trust

by NowPublic Staff | December 22, 2010 at 05:59 am

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MPAA Slaps David Schwimmer Directed Movie Trust With "R" Rating

David Schwimmer is calling out the MPAA for slapping his new movie Trust with a "R" rating.

The Motion Picture Association of America gave his movie Trust the adult rating because a scene involving a rape of 14 year old girl.

"There is no nudity, no overt sexuality other than what needed to be implied for a scene in the hotel room where we learn that a rape took place - I think the scene was tastefully handled," David told Deadline.

"What I find frustrating is there are plenty of films that get PG-13 that are so violent. There is a double standard. You can't show nudity or hear the F-word, but you can show people being blown to bits and chopped up."

He reckoned it's about time the MPAA got with the times.

Trust is about a family struggles to cope with their daughter's rape after she meets an online predator.

Safe and sound in their suburban home, Will and Lynn Cameron (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) used to sleep well at night. When their 14-year-old daughter, Annie, made a new friend on-line – a 16-year-old boy named Charlie – Will and Lynn didn?t think much of it. But when Annie and Charlie make a plan to meet what happens in the next twenty-four hours changes the entire family forever. Charlie is really a 40-year-old serial pedophile (Tom McCarthy) and, once Annie?s rape comes to light, it becomes a touchstone event that reverberates through the entire family.