Bertolucci Film Receives NC-17 Rating

Fox Searchlight Pictures will release the original version of Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic drama "The Dreamers" with an NC-17 designation, AP reports. Bertolucci praised the studio's decision not to cut the sexually explicit film for an R rating. "After all," the director said, "an orgasm is better than a bomb." Set in 1968, "The Dreamers" tells the story of a young American student (Michael Pitt of Hedwig and The Angry Inch) who falls in with two French twins and fellow film fanatics whose wild ways change him forever. The film opens on February 6.