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"Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan have helped win a ratings appeal for their film Philomena. The Stephen Frears-directed film was handed an R-rating in the US, due to two uses of &amp;quot;f**k&amp;quot; in the script.  However, The Weinstein Co sought to overturn decision and bring the film down to a PG-13 with the Motion Picture Association of America&amp;#039;s Classification and Ratings Administration Board (MPAA). Dench recently reprised her James Bond role of M for a comedy sketch, in which she instructed Coogan&amp;#039;s 002 agent to change the rating. Coogan joined TWC executives at an appeals hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday (November 13), where they successfully won their bid. Harvey Weinstein said: &amp;quot;We owe this victory to Barbara Broccoli, producer of the James Bond series, Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes who because of their relationship with Judi Dench gave permission to spoof the ratings system using the M character. &amp;quot;We know that went a long way into shedding light on the themes of the movie and the fact that the PG-13 rating was correct.  &amp;quot;We are glad the MPAA has a good sense of humour and, with the co-operation of Barbara and her team, it was proven once again no-one does it better than James Bond. &amp;quot;And my sincerest congratulations to Steve Coogan, who went to the MPAA and defended the case personally.&amp;quot; Philomena is based on the true-life story of an Irish woman&amp;#039;s search for the son she was forced to give up. It was released in the UK on November 1. The film will premiere in New York and Los Angeles on November 22 before releasing US-wide on November 27. Watch the Philomena trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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