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The Tin Drum was one of the most financially successful German films of the 1970s, taking in 25 million marks at the German box office. [2] New World Pictures paid $400,000 for the U.S. rights, [ 7 ] and the film became the highest-grossing German film in the United States, with a gross of $4 million, beating the record set a year earlier by ...
When he was 11 he starred in The Tin Drum, [2] which caused much controversy because he was shown in sex scenes with an adult. At age 17, he starred as Honeythorn Gump in the film Legend, co-starring with Tom Cruise and Mia Sara. [2]
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film , which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
Banned in several towns for showing controversial themes about Christianity. [3] The Tin Drum: 1979 1997 Briefly banned in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, when a district court judge deemed the film child pornography. The shot in question depicted a child embracing a naked woman. The verdict was overturned on appeal. [81] The Berenstain Bears Meet ...
In 1997, the system was placed in the center of a dispute regarding the film "The Tin Drum". The conservative group "Oklahomans for Children and Families" checked out the film, as well as other material from the Library, and began accusing the library of being a harbor for "obscene" material, including the film in question.
A controversial new drama eight years in the making has become a surprise hit at the box office. On Independence Day (4 July) in the US, a brand new movie starring The Passion of the Christ star ...
The Tin Drum: Edited, and later banned outright as child pornography by the Ontario Film Classification Board. [27] 1981 Not a Love Story: The feminist documentary critique of the pornography industry was itself banned in Ontario for its pornographic content, although that decision was ultimately reversed. [28] 1981 Beau-père
Even as controversy clung to Song of the South, it took Disney decades to fully reckon with its legacy.The movie was re-released in theaters multiple times, most recently on its 40th anniversary ...