The controversial movie Hounddog, starring child actress Dakota Fanning, will soon be available on DVD, but a campaign has been launched to fight its distribution.
Donna Miller, the prayer and action chapter leader for Concerned Women for America (CWA) of North Carolina, notes the movie did not perform well in theaters because pro-family organizations contacted theater managers and asked them to pull the movie. According to a CWA article, she believes theater chains noticed serious problems with the movie and declined to show it. Fanning's Hounddog character, a nine-year-old girl, is raped. Miller adds that the movie features other objectionable and sexually oriented scenes featuring this child, so she is calling on concerned citizens to halt the widespread distribution of the film on DVD. "Concerned Women for America is asking citizens to contact their local managers of retailers to ask them to please not stock this movie," she explains. Miller fears that a parent might purchase or rent the movie for a child thinking it suitable for children, when it is actually R-rated. "We have to decide whether or not we want to sexualize fourth-graders because the character in this film is nine years old," she adds. She is also asking people to contact national movie distributors. "Right now on the Concerned Women website, we have the addresses for Amazon.com and Netflix as well as the phone numbers," Miller points out. "They can contact them because they're taking pre-orders." Miller believes that companies -- local or national -- that consider their firms family-friendly should not stock the film. She concludes they could be complicit in child sexual abuse by distributing Hounddog.
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