How Ben Affleck’s Basketball Movie The Way Back Ended Up With An R Rating

Among the themes of the Ben Affleck-starring film The Way Back are both the competitive process of basketball and the grounded struggles of alcoholism. Traditionally, you could handle a drama like this with a PG-13 rating, making it be seen as more marketable and accessible to a wider audience. And yet, when the film was revealed to be R-rated, there was a pretty good reason for that classification sticking: language.

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