Well, here is the story: In 2015, Christopher Columbus, director of sincerely crazy Comedy Robin Williams Mrs. Doubtfire, gave a Yahoo Movies interview in which he claimed that, thanks to Williams’ well-known penchant for ugly-mouthed improvisations, he had managed to put together four complete pieces of 1993’s increasingly vulgar comedy. Columbus probably unwise called these cuts (which, as far as we know, were never designed for the MPAA), in terms of the film’s standard ratings: “A PG rated version of the film, PG-13, R and NC-17. ‘(Mrs. Doubtfire was eventually released as a PG-13 movie.) The interview itself is no longer online, but there is no indication that Columbus ever did anything with these cuts or if – in the days when movies were cut on film real – even physically existed. (Unlike, say, being assembled in the head with the material he knew he had at hand.) But he said it, and so the seeds of desire are planted.
Reduced to this day, when – encouraged by its successful efforts to intimidate a liberating multinational corporation Snyder Cut of Justice League—The Internet began to search around, wondering what other requirements it might meet. Several people on Twitter were hindered by Columbus’ old statements and thus the call for the “NC-17 cut” Mrs. Doubtfire has now been released.
As mentioned by Snopes, however, it is extremely it is not clear if this fabulous artifact actually exists or if it would …like Snyder Cut, now that we’re thinking about it– it had to be carefully assembled from a bunch of old parts and a lot of someone else’s money. Surely, Mrs. Doubtfire said star Mara Wilson (back in 2016) that he had never heard of an NC-17 version (although he noticed that he wouldn’t be surprised if an R cut was once made, given Williams’ love of ad-libbing.) And even if the film is the screenwriter, Randi Mayem Singer, who responded today with happy memories of the film’s “dirty dailies,” could not confirm that the cut was ever made. So definitely sound as if there is probably no real edition of the NC-17 movie, as long as there are a bunch of very blue captures that could exist, just waiting to destroy a new Blu-ray version.
In the meantime, there’s another question here, to say: We really have, uh, want to hear Robin Williams make NC-17 graded material – which, by the definition of the day, should be sexually explicit enough – in a movie where he’s dressed like a woman so he can fool his ex-wife to let him come back into her life? Williams was one of the gifted improvisers of comedy, but also one of his most determined filters; listening to his attitudes (and attitudes of the time) towards sex (and, as an assumption, trans people) thrown like a hand grenade into a beloved classic would probably be a hell of a lot less fun than it sounds at first blushes .
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Still, though: the internet demanded. God only knows what happens next.