Moms Booted for Bringing Children to R-Rated Movie ‘Bad Moms’
If you haven’t already seen the movie (or trailer), funny ladies Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, and Mila Kunis star in Bad Moms, an honest and humorous take on the struggles of being a parent.
As a new mom familiar with these struggles, Brookynn Cahill and fellow new mom Juliana Valverde decided to get together with a group of other moms in Fort Meyers, Texas, to check out the new film. Unfortunately, they were turned away.
What Cahill and her friends didn’t realize was that the movie’s R rating prohibited them from entering the theater with their kids.
“No one had communicated that children under 6 were not allowed in R-rated movies,” Amber Cebull told the News-Press. “We had breastfeeding moms with infants, one four weeks and one seven months, and they refused them entry.” Unfortunately, breastfeeding moms often cannot leave their infants, as they require regular feeding.
The women with children under 6 were directed to another screening room in the theater, where Ice Age: Collision Course had been playing for an hour.
An R-rating means that anyone younger than 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian. And Regal Cinemas (the chain that owns the theater the women went to) adds the restriction that no children younger than 6 may attend an R-rated movie after 6 p.m. The women were going to the 7:45 p.m. showing.
“They made me feel like a terrible person for bringing my child,” Cahill said told the News-Press.
Refusing to give up on their night out, Cahill and Valverde decided to sneak into the theater with their sleeping babies (bad moms!), only to have the manager find them and ask them to leave.
“I think that they have a right to have their rules for their theater,” she said. “But I think it needs to be a little different with the age limit. Young babies are sleeping and being perfectly fine. If our babies are going to make a noise, we know how to handle this situation.”
As she was being asked to leave, Valverde said she began to cry, and that’s when the rest of the group backed her up.
“I said, ‘OK then, we’re going to get our people out of the theater and leave, and you’re going to refund our tickets?’” Cebull told the News-Press.
The group of friends, in a show of mom solidarity, left the theater and continued their fun night elsewhere.
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