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Well this is interesting about his early efforts as a film producer (from Wikipedia)... in the late '80s/early '90s he was involved with some psycho-sexual dramas which blurred the "X" rating in movies and led to the MPAA introducing the "NC-17" rating category between X and R:

... In 1989, their successful launch release of Steven Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape propelled Miramax to become the most successful independent studio in America.[10]

Also in 1989, Miramax released two art-house films, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover and director Pedro Almodóvar's film Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, both of which the MPAA rating board gave an X-rating, effectively stopping nationwide release for these films. Weinstein sued the MPAA over the rating system. His lawsuit was later thrown out, but got the MPAA to agree to introduce the new NC-17 rating.

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I remember when the Soderbergh and Almodovar films were coming out because I was around a lot of university people who talked about them as though they were a big deal. I walked OUT on a theater showing of “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” which distressed some of my avant garde friends of the time. I have sat through some sordid films before, but I thought that Almodovar was just too sicko perverted to endure, and I could not sit through the film, not even for the sake of “art”....

Figures that Harvey Weinstein launched his career trying to “mainstream” crap like that in America.