EXCLUSIVE: Sony and Wayfarer Studios’ Blake Lively romance drama It Ends With Us has been blocked for theatrical release in Qatar due to kissing scenes, sources inform us.
The country’s Censorship Committee is the clearance authority on what plays in theaters. Note that the Justin Baldoni starring and directed feature based on the Colleen Hoover novel is rated PG-13.
The movie deals heavily with the issue of domestic abuse and centers around a woman’s psyche as she straddles between staying in a toxic relationship or departing it.
Qatar, situated on the Qatar Peninsula on the NE coast of the Arabian Peninsula of the Middle East, is predominantly Muslim.
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