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The ticket must be purchased by the parent or legal guardian.

The phone calls amaze me.

"Can my kid watch Patriot?"

"Well sir, it posesses graphic violence... arms, legs and heads violently seperated from bodies, much screaming and death".

"So?"

"Okay sir, it also has implied violence where innocent women and children are corraled into an enclosed structure and slowly burned alive".

"Um, nobody gets naked, right?"

"No sir, they don't".

"Okay, sell me a ticket for each of my kids".

... Folks, you just can't legislate against stupidity.

Parents know what their kids have already seen, and they don't mind them seeing more. It's the Senior Citizens who have the problem, who come out and yell at me and ask me why we allow this to happen.

I usually have to reply with "How would you react if we told YOU your child can't do something you feel is perfectly okay?" They usually stop right after that...

The only problems we have are the unattended kids running around making idiots out of themselves. So we warn all parents who give permission to their kids, that if we get ONE SINGLE COMPLAINT, justified or not, we will kick their kids out without warning. ZERO tolerance...

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I think "South Park" was a movie that shocked a lot of parents if they were unfamiliar with it. "Oh, an animated movie; it'll be perfect for the kids." I saw it several times but never saw any parents leaving with small children.

The showings of "Scary Movie" I've attended have had great audiences: ones composed of nobody under teen age and mostly adults. I've heard practically no stray talking or crying babies in these two audiences -- just a lot of appropriate laughter. I believe everyone who came to see this movie knew exactly what to expect, and based on their reactions, most seemed to enjoy it thoroughly.

Believe it or not, "Dinosaur" has been the worst movie ever for terrible audiences. Parents brought their kids and babies, the dinosaur action scenes scared them, and they cried all through the movie. Simply awful. Many parents had to take their children out of this one for misbehaviour and crying. Either go to the latest available showing for this one (fewer kids) or wait for the DVD.

Evans

My concern is, that if parents allow their children in to see an excplicitly "R" rated film, then they should KNOW why it's rated R so they don't come back and get high and mighty to me about why their kid is walking around singing "You're a dirty Uncle F*&!er!".

My other concern is that when the kids ARE in the theatre, they behave themselves and maintain an atmoshpere worthy of the film that they are seeing. SCARY MOVIE = RAUCUS LAUGHTER is fine by me. A serious adult film, kids who wish to see it should remain quiet as a church mouse, if they can't do that, then I will kick them out.

I think what people are forgetting, is that MOVIES aren't REAL. Allowing children to believe that it's OKAY to go shoot people because they saw it in a movie is simply idiotic; and that is EXACTLY what critics have been doing. Movie violence doesn't cause people to do stupid stuff, stupid parents and stupid people who don't have a firm grip on reality and make believe - THEY do stupid stuff.

Arrghh -- it can be so frustrating. Luckily I haven't had to deal with any REALLY tough customers lately.

We were winding down from a rather lengthy run of Boys Don't Cry and after the show one day, an older couple approached our cashier and demanded to speak to a manager. Since I was busy starting a movie (good thing as it turned out) I told the cashier to call Ian. So Ian went down to find out what was up. This couple were outraged that we had let a father bring his 8 year-old son to see Boys Don't Cry. They thought it was totally inappropriate and we should firmly police who attends what movie. Ian thanked them for their comments and explained that the ratings weren't law and as long as the kid was accompanied by a parent niether we, nor they, had any grounds to object.

Apparently the couple must have made some comment to the parent as he had hung around and was sitting in the cafe when the couple pointed he and his son out. Ian went over to talk to them and the first words out of the father's mouth were - "So what was that about?" Ian congratulated the father on being voted pariah of the day - much to their amusement. Turns out the kid is 11 and the father specifically brought him to see this movie because it dealt with homophobia and harassment - which is apparently an issue at the kid's school. Ian thanked the father for supporting our theatre and gave him some passes. Oh, and the kid piped up that he had seen far more violence and sex on tv than were in Boys Don't Cry.

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One drive-in owner we spoke with last summer told us that an elderly lady, apparently the grandmother of a van full of children, pulled up to his box office just before a screening of "South Park." When he advised her of the
film's content she became angry and said, "Now you've ruined it! Now that the kids know what the movie contains I can't take them in!"