What’s the difference between unrated and theatrical version of a movie?!
Question: It depends on the film. There could be different reasons for a change. Most often, a film will be edited to get a certain rating. For instance, it might have scenes making it NC-17, so they edit out parts to get it to "R." Then, for video release, they might release it in it's original version, and not submit that for rating. They will call it "unrated" because it hasn't gone to the rating board a second time and therefore does not have one in this version. So now it exists in two forms, "unrated" and "theatrical (because it's the form shown in theaters)."
Answers: It depends on the film. There could be different reasons for a change. Most often, a film will be edited to get a certain rating. For instance, it might have scenes making it NC-17, so they edit out parts to get it to "R." Then, for video release, they might release it in it's original version, and not submit that for rating. They will call it "unrated" because it hasn't gone to the rating board a second time and therefore does not have one in this version. So now it exists in two forms, "unrated" and "theatrical (because it's the form shown in theaters)."
The theatrical version of a movie is exactly frame for frame what you see in the movie theatre. The unrated has added or alternate scenes. For example they may have cut out or softened a few scenes for ratings or timing, and in the uncut/unrated versions you get extra stuff.
Unrated means it wasn't rated by the MPAA (G, PG, R, etc.). Theatrical versions are rated. Often to get a rating that will get the most viewers, a movie will be edited to remove some of the racier content. The unrated has that stuff restored and is closer to what the director intended.
Unrated has either extended scenes or additional scends that were not in the theater, but since the film has not been resuvbmitted to the MPAA for rerating, cannot and are not rated.
The theatrical release is whatever you saw in the theaters
The theatrical version is the version that you saw in theaters. It depends on unrated. If the theatrical version was PG-13 the unrated might include R material like uses of the f word, explicit nudity, or if it's horror probably violence on-screen. If you have a theatrical R version the unrated version will include NC-17 with more nudity and sex that happens on screen or sexual terms and violence on-screen.