Question: What was your first R-rated movie?
No longer for children? Depends whose child!My friend Matt got a great dialogue going on Facebook yesterday when he asked his friends to tell him what the first R-rated movie they ever saw was. (He thinks his was "Caddyshack," although he'd been sneaking them on cable prior to that.)
Mine was a little bit more bizarre, although it's kind of funny (and more than borderline campy) in retrospect. The year was 1974 -- I had just turned 7 -- and my stepaunt Linda had taken my brothers and me to see "For Pete's Sake," the Barbra Streisand farce about pork bellies and loan sharks. (The fab Estelle Parsons plays Bab's annoying sister-in-law.) My whole family LOVED "What's Up, Doc?," so we were game for anything new from Babs. For whatever reason, the theater we saw it in was showing it as a double feature -- with "The Owl and the Pussycat," the R-rated romantic comedy also starring Streisand from 1970, in which Barbra plays an actress slash model slash part-time prostitute(!) who ends up falling in love her busybody neighbor (George Segal) after he gets her evicted for turning tricks. (Hey, I was a precocious 7-year-old! I later came to learn that future porn star Marilyn Chambers was in the film, too!)
I don't remember a whole lot about the film, but a scene with Segal in a skeleton suit and Barbra in lingerie with "hands" around her breasts has always stayed in mind!So tell me, what was your first first R-rated movie?
22 comments:
My first rated R was PRETTY BABY with Brooke Shields. Huge impact. I don't want to be a prepubescent whore but I am still attracted to the south and large, old houses and strange old women like the madam in PRETTY BABY.
As with so many things from that era, I remember Mad magazine's treatment of "The Owl and the Pussycat" more clearly than I do the movie.
Dirty Harry
Vacation, I think. I remember my parents kicking me and my sisters out of the room when Christie Brinkley started stripping.
Flatliners...pretty bad ;)
Either Bachelor Party or Friday the 13th part 4...can't be sure.
"Saturday Night Fever."
he Omen...then years later I dated a couple of dudes who acted pretty much like Damian...so there's that.
Purple Rain
I think it was "Myra Breckenridge", but it might have been rated "X" when it first came out, like "Midnight Cowboy" was.
White Buffalo with Charles Bronson. I went with Joe Lockemy. I'm sure we were still in Jr High and I think his older brother bought us the tickets.
Walkabout at the age of 7. Made my dad promise not to take me to Australia and here I go and move to New Zealand....!
The first R movie I went to see in a theater was "And Justice For All" That was a class assignment for US Law in high school.
The Omen (8th grade) sneaked into a Chicago drive in. Risky Business at 17 wore a micro mini & 4" wedged Candies thinking I was something real special. I may have even thought I'd run into Tom.
Lol @ Wayne was YEARS ago but mom n dad decide to go to drive in with me and my younger brother and they pick Saturday Night Fever and parents soooo embarrassed because every other word in the movie is F$&@ this and F that hahahahaha have a good day all ;))
When I was still a young thing I was fortunate to spend a week with Frances Faye not all that long after she did Pretty Baby.........in her words, "It was a fucking wild ride"........
I'm pretty sure it was "First Monday in October" because I was bored until people got naked. Then I got embarrassed because I was sitting there with my dad. I was 6!
The Jerk
Saturday night fever...
Children of the Corn
Saturday Night Fever was my first R, the weekend it opened. I wasn't old enough yet, but my Mom bought the tickets for me and my date (a girl!) earlier in the day, and we breezed right in.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. My mom took me to see it. I think she thought it would be some sort of comedy. I'll never forget hearing the F word on screen for the first time, sitting next to my mother.
Post a Comment