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Q. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" has always been one of my favorite films. I was astounded to discover that Blockbuster Video has tagged the DVD as an "adults only" rental due to its nonrating by the MPAA. Tell me something. Do the people who work at Blockbuster watch their own movies before deciding who can and can't check them out? (Joe Schwind, Frederick Md.)
A. "Picnic at Hanging Rock," one of the titles in my series of Great Movies reviews, is far from an "adults only" movie. Blockbuster slaps the same "Youth-Restricted Viewing" sticker on any movie that is not rated, whether it's a wet T-shirt documentary or a children's film from Czechoslovakia. It's their way to score points as a family store without making the slightest effort to actually evaluate the films in question. More hypocrisy: It will not carry NC-17 movies, but it will carry the unrated "director's cuts" of R-rated movies which sometimes must, by definition, be the NC-17 versions.