 The NC-17 rating has been described as a "kiss of death" for any film that receives it.<ref></ref> Like the X rating it replaced, NC-17 limits a film's prospects of being marketed, screened in theaters and sold in major video outlets.In 1995, United Artists released the big-budget film "Showgirls" (1995); it became the most widely distributed film with an NC-17 rating (showing in 1,388 cinemas simultaneously), but it was a financial failure that grossed only 45% of its $45 million budget.<ref></ref> Some modest successes can be found among NC-17 theatrical releases, however; Fox Searchlight Pictures released the original NC-17-rated American edition of the European film "The Dreamers" (2003) in theaters in the United States, and later released both the original NC-17 and the cut R-rated version on DVD.A Fox Searchlight spokesman said the NC-17 rating did not give them much trouble in releasing this film (they had no problem booking it, and only the Salt Lake City newspaper "Deseret News" refused to take the film's ad), and Fox Searchlight was satisfied with this film's United States box office result.<ref name="lahiding"></ref> Another notable exception is "Bad Education" (2004), an NC-17 foreign-language film that grossed $5.2 million in the United States theatrically<ref></ref> (a moderate success for a foreign-language film<ref></ref>).