 In June 1997, at the urging of a Christian fundamentalist group and  after viewing only a few isolated scenes, an Oklahoma County  District Court judge declared that this film contained child  pornography (as defined by Oklahomas obscenity laws) and as such  was illegal. Without obtaining the necessary search warrants or  court orders, police in Oklahoma City confiscated all copies of the  film from libraries and rental outlets. They intimidated video store  managers into supplying them with the addresses of those currently  renting the movie, went to those homes, and confiscated those tapes  as well. The local District Attorney declared that anyone possessing  a copy of the movie would be arrested. Within weeks the D.A. was  forced to back down on this statement, and by December most of the  seized videos had been returned. By October of 1998, over the course  of rulings in several related lawsuits, the U.S. federal courts  found that the confiscation of the tapes had been unconstitutional,  and ruled that the movie did not violate Oklahomas state laws. The  U.S. Court of Appeals closed the final case in May 2001, and the  movie is once again available for rental in Oklahoma County.