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User Rating:
6.5/10   275 votes
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Director:
Mark Waters
Writer (WGA):
Jay Martel (written by)
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Release Date:
21 April 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy | Music more
Tagline:
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
User Comments:
Better than I expected (more than the usual VH1 movie dramatization) more

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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Additional Details

Also Known As:
PMRC (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Australia:M | Argentina:13
Filming Locations:
Houston, Texas, USA more

Fun Stuff

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. more
Goofs:
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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3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Better than I expected (more than the usual VH1 movie dramatization), 22 April 2002
Author: JackGattanella from United States

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+

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