Almodóvar's Bad Education slapped with NC-17 rating

The Motion Picture Association of America announced Tuesday that Pedro Almodovar's new film, Bad Education, was given an NC-17 rating, barring anyone under the age of 17 from seeing the film. Distributor Sony Pictures Classics said it would release the film uncut under the NC-17 rating, which the film's publicists say was given because of one scene involving actor Gael Garcia Bernal's head bobbing during a depiction of oral sex. Almodovar previously clashed with the MPAA in 1990 when the ratings board gave the NC-17 to his film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!