American Voices

IDing Teens At The Movies

June 23, 1999 | ISSUE 35•24

Attempting to shield teens from violent imagery, U.S. cinema owners agreed last week to require young people to show photo IDs when buying tickets for R-rated movies. What do you think?

  • Man, when I hear adults talk about carding me for a stupid movie, it makes me want to get a bunch of guns and shoot everyone at my school.&quo

    James Goltz
    Student

  • What's wrong with a bit of the old ultra-violence? Sometimes a droog needs a good tolchock on the old gulliver, O my brothers.

    Richard Borgmann
    Bond Trader

  • I'm just glad that when I see the South Park movie, the theater won't be filled with noisy juveniles annoying my husband and me.

    Dana Wynegar
    Florist

  • Well, you have to admit that similar measures have put an end to underage drinking.

    Michelle Kusick
    Speech Pathologist

  • Shit, man, this blows. I'm 43, but I don't have any ID.

    Fred Hisle
    Systems Analyst

  • There's a statute of limitations on this, right? Because I got into Stripes in 1981 when I was 12.

    Isaac Brye
    Dishwasher

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