Revisiting Charlize Theron in a topless scene that you’ve never seen …

… unless you read Other Crap and the Fun House.

If you follow this page and others dedicated to film nudity, you have certainly seen some lovely captures of Charlize Theron’s butt in The Cider House Rules.


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But what you may not realize (unless you are a member at the Fun House) is that there was an earlier version of this scene which included lengthy topless exposure. To my knowledge, this variation has never appeared as “deleted footage” or “alternate footage” on any DVD or Blu-Ray. It is one of the rarest items in my collection. The quality is not good.


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My collages appeared in the Fun House on the page from March 27, 2000, and a single frame (from somebody else, I think) appeared on March 12.

The well-known film critic, James Berardinelli, wrote:

“The topless version of the Cider House Rules scene was in the version that was shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1999. It was subsequently re-edited to achieve a PG-13 rating for its theatrical release. To my knowledge, there was only a single print struck with the full scene so, somehow, you have footage from it. It was likely made internally at the studio or at the festival. It likely no longer exists except possibly in a private collection.”

Somebody must have made a bootleg cam recording at the Toronto screening, and I somehow stumbled over it, probably on an IRC channel, way back in the year 2000.

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Find three other rare nude scenes here. They are Pier Angeli in Addio, Alexandra; Rebecca Romijn in the original version of Godsend; and Sienna Miller in a film that was never completed, Hippie, Hippie Shake.

10 thoughts on “Revisiting Charlize Theron in a topless scene that you’ve never seen …

  1. Thanks, I’ve been wanking to those Sienna shots for 15 yrs but yeah, we’re never gonna see that footage, unless Sienna becomes Scarlett-level famous

  2. Cinematographer Oliver Stapleton deserved at least an Oscar nomination for doing such a wonderful job lighting Charlize’s terrific tush.

  3. Thank God the censors removed Charlize’s lovely tits from the PG-13 version. Would our society even still exist today if they hadn’t? Who knows, but would we really want to take that chance?

    1. If I remember right, Gibbon claimed that the Western Roman Empire actually fell because the emperor Orestes saw the breasts of one of Charlize Theron’s Germanic ancestors, and was so mesmerized by the sight of this beautiful blond barbarian that he left the gates to the city of Pavia unlocked, allowing Odoacer’s army inside without a struggle.

  4. The topless version of the “Cider House Rules” scene was in the version that was shown at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1999. It was subsequently re-edited to achieve a PG-13 rating for its theatrical release. To my knowledge, there was only a single print struck with the full scene so, somehow, you have footage from it. It was likely made internally at the studio or at the festival. It likely no longer exists except possibly in a private collection.

    1. The main reason he has caps of it is because he used to have a studio screener that was the R-rated version. Sadly, (if I remember correctly) he said he threw it out because he expected a higher quality retail release to come out with the scene intact.

      Sadly, if one didn’t keep the screener, then the seen in motion no longer exists.

      1. I was wrong about the screener. It turned out to be a costly error. I located a copy of that industry screener (VHS!) quite recently, and bought it, trusting my memory, thinking to get a clip of the uncut scene. Turns out the scene in the screener was identical to the commercial DVD version.

        Therefore, I must have captured it from a cam from the very beginning, and it must have been created at the 1999 TIFF, based on JB’s recollections. The rest of the story is just as you wrote it. I did have the whole scene in motion at one time and tossed it because it was crappy and I expected the scene to re-appear in top quality on a DVD.

        1. Glad to hear about the update to the story, I only knew what you said years ago.

          Makes me wonder if someone else had a copy of the cam version from TIFF then. I mean it’s the internet, it’s gotta be in here somewhere right? Maybe it’ll turn up one day.

          1. I do a search for it now and then because I agree with you. I think I must have picked it up from the undernet somewhere, so at one time it was possessed by the guy who created it and others who may have downloaded it. Of course, many people must have done what I did – tossed it out when better sources became available – and I don’t think anyone ever posted the clip, or I probably would have noticed! Not many clips were posted to the internet back in 2000 because broadband was still in its infancy. But at least one copy of that cam is likely to be out there somewhere, probably in the hands of someone who is unaware that it is unique.

            I never look at IRC channels any more because it’s so easy to find new material on the web. I don’t even remember how to connect to IRC, or even what client is required. I do remember that it was tedious, and involved queuing up a lot, then downloading in small bits that had to be stitched together, but for all I know that cam itself could still be floating around on one of those channels … somewhere in the ether.

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