Okay, so here’s the story: In 2015, Christopher Columbus, director of the frankly crazy Comedy by Robin Williams Mrs. Doubtfire, did an interview on Yahoo Movies in which he claimed that, due to Williams’ well-known inclination for bad-mouthed improvisations, he had managed to mount four complete cuts of the 1993 comedy, of increasingly vulgar harvest. Columbus, possibly recklessly, christened these cuts (which, as far as we know, were never projected for the MPAA), in terms of the film’s standard rating: “A PG rated version of the film, PG-13, R and NC-17. “(Mrs. Doubtfire it was finally released as a PG-13 film.) The interview itself is no longer online, but there is no indication that Columbus did anything with these cuts, nor if, in the days when they were cut by the Films in real material, even physically existing. (Unlike, for example, meeting in your head with the material you knew you had on hand.) But he said it, and so the seeds of desire are planted.
To this day, when, encouraged by his successful efforts to intimidate a multinational corporation to free it the Snyder Cut of Justice League—The Internet has begun to look around, wondering what other demands it may meet. Several people on Twitter stumbled upon Columbus’ old statements and therefore the call for “the NC-17 cut” of Mrs. Doubtfire has now been published.
As he points out Snopes, however, it is so extremely it is not clear if this fabulous artifact exists or if …like the Snyder Cut, now that we think about it—Need to gather carefully from a lot of old pieces and a lot of someone else’s money. Certainly Mrs. Doubtfire said star Mara Wilson (in 2016) who had never heard of a version of the NC-17 (though he noted that it would come as no surprise that a cut had ever been made with the R, given Williams’ love of advertising). screenwriter Randi Mayem Singer responded today with happy memories of the film’s “dirty diaries,” but was unable to confirm that the cut in question was ever made. That is true sounds as if there was probably no real NC-17 edition of the film, no matter how many very blue captures that might still exist, waiting to smash a new version of Blu-ray.
Meanwhile, here’s another question, namely: seriously, eh, to want listen to Robin Williams doing NC-17 classified material — which, by the definition of the day, should be quite explicitly sexual — in a movie where she dresses as a woman so she can cheat his ex-wife to let him come back to his life? Williams was one of the gifted improvisers of comedy, but also one of the most determined without filtering; listening to their attitudes (and attitudes of the time) towards sex (and, of course, trans people) throwing themselves like a hand grenade at a beloved classic would probably be a much less fun hell that sounds like the initial blush.
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Still, though: The Internet has demanded it. God only knows what happens next.