A spiritual-themed comedy that starred a post-Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, as very well as Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, George Carlin, Alan Rickman, Linda Fiorentino, and Lee and Mewes, it was criticized by the Catholic League. Miramax employed Alan Dershowitz to sue the MPAA. Initially, the movie obtained an NC-17 ranking from the MPAA for sexually graphic language.