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Happy Friday, kids! It's an oldie but a goodie.
To keep Matt's memo company, here is my favorite "R" rated ticket policy, courtesy of the good people at the Nugget Theaters in Hanover, NH.
Nugget Theatre “R” rated ticket policy:
Our policy is to affirm the responsibility and the right of all parents and guardians to guide their own children’s movie viewing.
Any request for a child admission must have an accompanying adult admission or the child ticket will not be sold. Anyone requesting a ticket for to an “R” rated film pays for an adult ticket (unless they qualify for a senior ticket). The Nugget Theatre reserves the right to check for I.D. when tickets are purchased.
Film Ratings are intended as guidelines and are voluntarily enforced within the movie industry. Ratings are meant primarily for parents, so they know which movies are suitable for their children.
The Ratings system is administered by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The MPAA is a trade organization of mainstream Hollywood studios whose purpose is promotion of Hollywood films. The following is from the MPAA December 1996 statement concerning the purpose of the MPAA Rating System:
The basic mission of the Rating System is a simple one: to offer parents some advance information about movies so that parents can decide what movies they want their children to see or not to see. The entire rostrum of the Rating Program rests on the assumption of responsibility by parents. If Parents don’t care, or are languid in guiding their children’s moviegoing, the ratings system becomes useless. Indeed if you are 18 or over, or if you have no children, the Ratings System has no meaning for you. Ratings are meant for parents, no one else.
Amen to that. [And thanks, Donald!]
That reminds me, Kirby Dick's This Film Is Not Yet Rated opens September 1.
