Winslow Boy, The
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Winslow Boy, The
-- Eloquent adaptation of Terence(R) attigan's stage play in which a father (Nigel Hawthorne) in 1910 London believes the naval academy has wrongly expelled his 14-year-old son for stealing a five-shilling postal order and at great cost, especially to his daughter (Rebecca Pidgeon), engages a prominent lawyer (Jeremy Northam) to prove the lad's innocence. Writer-director David Mamet unfolds the story through elegant dialogue and a marvelous cast of characters, honing and sharpening but not changing Rattigan's period piece about British justice upholding the rights of a citizen against the power of the state. Heavy sledding for pre-schoolers.(A-I) (G)
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1999
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The classifications are as follows:
- A-I -- general patronage;
- A-II -- adults and adolescents;
- A-III -- adults;
- A-IV**
- L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
- O -- morally offensive.
** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.