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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

The New Zealand Herald reports how a woman was turned away from seeing the R16 rated film The Reader because her 5 week old baby was underage. A staff member recommended she see the M-rated Terminator Salvation instead!

The manager said he had to follow the law or the theatre could be fined $35,000. The mother said "discretion and common sense" should have come into play, but the manager said "I have no more discretion here than a publican has with someone trying to get into a pub a day before they turn 18"

It's a curious dilemma!

Emperor Morphetine · Screen Legend Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 3576

Yeh, its an odd one- if the woman wanted to take her baby to the cinema surely she'd have been better off going to some kind of mother and baby club? But equally I guess it could have repercussions for the cinema itself given the political correctness culture and all that you get now.
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Scorpio · Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:08 am Post subject:

stupid cow - how noisy would that have been for a child.......and how inconsiderate for other viewers if the baby started crying................
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

I can't say as I've ever seen a mother and baby at any films I've been to but you're right about noise levels Scorp.....that wouldn't be good for a baby I'd have thought.

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

I have to say I find it very strange that a woman would take a child so young to a cinema...the noise of any film in there would be deafening to a child...and the words she uses too ..."discretion and common sense" perhaps she should employ these herself

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

It's a wonder someone hasn't tried the same thing in a UK cinema to see if they could claim discrimination and get compensation!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

you know your as likely to see someone brought up on a child abuse charge for bringing a child that young into a really loud cinema like that
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 8906

I haven't heard what happened in NZ and if the mother took matters any further but you're right about the noise......surely it would harm a baby so young?

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 12791

yeah a wee baby's ears shouldn't have to deal with that booming noise ...like i don't know what cinemas are like in the UK but here in Ireland you can't hear yourself think in a cinema particularly if there is explosions or loud sequences......
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K · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:36 am Post subject:

Maybe she was desperate to get out of the house; alone at home with no other adults to talk to or something; hormones running wild after childbirth make you do the stupidest things. Perhaps someone should have directed her to somewhere more suitable.