Posted: 02/20/07

Five-YEAR POLITICAL STUDY OF MOVIES

Moviegoers Prefer Conservative, Patriotic, Moral Movies

A new five-year study of the top 250 to 300 movies released by Hollywood each year in North America shows that moviegoers prefer conservative, patriotic, pro-American movies with traditional, Judeo-Christian values rather than movies pushing a left-wing, anti-capitalist, socialist, atheist, or homosexual agenda.

“Movies with very strong Judeo-Christian values, or capitalist ideals, patriotism and Pro-American attitudes, do much better at the box office than movies promoting socialism, Marxism, radical feminism, left-wing political correctness, atheism, and homosexuality,” says Dr. Ted Baehr, publisher of MOVIEGUIDE®:  A Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment and chairman of the Christian Film & Television Commission™ ministry, a Christian advocacy group in Hollywood.

For example, movies in 2006 with very strong Judeo-Christian values, strong pro-capitalist content, and/or pro-American or patriotic attitudes, such as CARS, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS, ROCKY BALBOA, THE PINK PANTHER, SUPERMAN RETURNS, MISSION:  IMPOSSIBLE III, FACING THE GIANTS, THE NATIVITY STORY, LOVE'S ABIDING JOY, LASSIE, WORLD TRADE CENTER, CHARLOTTE'S WEB, UNITED 93, and SOPHIE SCHOLL, earned far more money per movie than movies with politically correct, socialist, Marxist, Anti-American, strong anti-capitalist, and/or very strong atheist, feminist, or homosexual content, such as TALLADEGA NIGHTS, BORAT, SCARY MOVIE 4, V FOR VENDETTA, THE ANT BULLY, ANOTHER GAY MOVIE, AN INCONVENTIENT TRUTH, CLERKS II, THE NIGHT LISTENER, SLITHER, HALF NELSON, WHY WE FIGHT, AL FRANKEN:  AND GOD SPOKE, SWEET LAND, FAST FOOD NATION, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, THE GOOD GERMAN, EDMOND, CSA, and MAN OF THE YEAR.

MOVIEGUIDE® will release the full details of its 2007 Annual Report to the Entertainment Industry, which includes figures on Christian content, pagan worldview, occult content, environmentalist content, anti-Christian content, MPAA ratings, as well as box office averages on the amount of foul language, sex, nudity, violence, and substance abuse, in 2006 movies, at its 15^th Annual Faith & Values Awards Gala, Feb. 20 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

MOVIEGUIDE® is dedicated to redeeming the values of the entertainment industry by influencing industry executives and informing the public about the influence of the entertainment media.

For more information about Movieguide® and the Awards Gala, please visit www.movieguide.org and www.movieguideawards.com or call 1-800-577-6684.

To arrange a personal interview with Dr. Ted Baehr, , please contact Joe Turman at Shirley & Banister Public Affairs at 703-739-5920 or jturman@sbpublicaffairs.com.

Political Content Charts, 2002-2006

2006 Movie Content

Number of Movies Analyzed -- 300

* MOVIEGUIDE® believes that the basic moral principles in both the New Testament and the Hebrew Scriptures are the same, though individual Bible-believing Jews and Christians, or individual churches and synagogues, may differ greatly on the issue of morality in the past, now or in the future due to non-biblical influences. The term Judeo-Christian Morality refers to MOVIEGUIDE®'s traditional understanding of what the Bible teaches, morally speaking.

2005 Movie Content

Number of Movies Analyzed -- 268

2004 Movie Content

Number of Movies Analyzed -- 282

2003 Movie Content

Number of Movies Analyzed -- 279

2002 Movie Content

Number of Movies Analyzed -- 299