rick_d_tech

The following is a rant brought to you by your local theater worker... or me. Also, this is a bit of long rant.

Okay, to start this off, I'd like to say I work at a movie theater. I won't say the company because it's not my place, but it is one of the big ones. 99.5% of the time, I'm box office because that's where I'm best, so I know what to in almost every situation.

For movies, the ratings are mainly a guideline for what to do, PG13 doesn't mean you can't see a movie unless you're 13, it just means it's not suggested that you watch it unless you're 13, but you can watch it on your own if you're younger. The only ones that ARE supposed to be followed are R and NC-17, which mean that you have to be 17 or accompanied by a 21 year old for R, and only 17 and older for NC-17. Also you need to have ID for those types of movies unless you definitely seem old enough, or else you don't get to buy tickets, and it's one ID per ticket if you're under 21. We do get fined if caught, and will be held responsible.

This doesn't mean you can go in if only one of you has an ID, or if you say you're old enough, or if an adult buys the tickets and lets you go in without them or sees a different movie. Also, if you sneak into another movie and caught, you will get thrown out, and depending on the manager, you may or may not get a refund for your tickets.

Aaaaanyway, back to my point. On Friday, we got "Silent House" which is rated R, and today, a group of about 8 teenagers decided they wanted to see it. About 7 of them were old enough to see it, one wasn't, and only one, ONE had ID, and they weren't even 20. First they tried getting me to just give them the tickets and even just say that the ID was enough for them to go in. When that didn't work, they left, came back, and the one with ID bought a ticket for the movie, and the rest bought tickets for another non-R movie, and I flagged their tickets(marked them in a way that makes it so theater workers know that the holders may be up to something). Now this could have gone two ways, 1) they accept they can't see the R-rated movie and go to the one they bought, or 2) they sneak in, and kicked out if everyone is paying attention like they should.