Henry & June (1990)

Academy Award for Best Cinematography: 1990's (51 movies items)

"Philippe Rousselot "

Movies About Writers (117 movies items)

"Henry Miller (1891-1980) Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)"

The 101 Most Controversial Films of All-Time (101 movies items)

" The first major studio release rated NC-17, this arty biopic featured a guilt-free menage a trois, nudity and Uma Thurman in a lesbian kiss."

Pioneers (49 movies items)

" First NC-17 film."

Total Recall: Important Movie Firsts (10 movies items)

"FIRST MOVIE TO RECEIVE AN NC-17 RATING The MPAA had ditched the X-Rating, but lacked a specific "adults only" category, and in the late 1980s and early 1990s, some particularly racy and/or violent films (like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) opted out of the ratings system altogether. Philip Kaufman's Henry and June, about the wild dalliances of Henry Miller, his wife June, and writer Anais Nin in 1930s Paris, was the first film to go out with the new rating. It might have been sexually expl"