Controversial movie on child rape debuts at Sundance.

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ARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) -- A flurry of movie deals were struck as the Sundance Film Festival reached its midpoint Tuesday, and the widely anticipated film "Hounddog" debuted, starring young Dakota Fanning as the victim of a child rape.

The movie by writer/director Deborah Kampmeier received a storm of complaints before the festival from groups concerned about a scene in which a 12-year-old girl named Lewellen is raped by a teen-age boy. The groups had not yet seen the film.

The New York-based Catholic League earlier this month called for a federal probe to determine whether child pornography laws were violated because Fanning, like the character she plays, is 12 years old.

In the rape scene, only Fanning's face, neck, shoulders, hand and foot appear onscreen. Much of the rape is depicted in darkness with flashes of lightning and the sound of Lewellen screaming "stop it, stop it."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/23/hounddog.fanning.reut/index.html

The Catholic League is asking for a federal probe about a piece of FICTION? Where were they when FACTUALLY a bunch of pedophile priests were running around raping half of their parishoners?

They were stonewalling left and right, saying that the accusers were lying.