# What R/NC-17 rated movies did you sneak into as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400 "2009-08-23T17:21:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/21 "2009-08-24T19:24:08Z")
Age 13 (or maybe 14): bought tickets to _Ghostbusters_, instead snuck into _Revenge of the Nerds_. ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/22 "2009-08-24T19:29:11Z")
I was 12 or 13 and bought a ticket to see **Kiss Me Goodbye**. Snuck into the other theatre to see **First Blood**. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/23 "2009-08-24T19:33:36Z")
I don’t recall which movies I was able to get into, as it wasn’t usually an issue getting into R-rated films when I was 14-16. The only time I ever got stopped was when I tried to see **Silence of the Lambs**. Actually, I got stopped both times I tried seeing that movie. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/24 "2009-08-24T19:38:31Z")
They didn’t enforce the “no one under 17” when I was a kid, either, so pretty much everything I saw was R-rated. Earliest I remember seeing without parents was probably _Caddyshack_ when I was 10 - I recall going to see that and _Airplane!_ (which was PG) at least once a week for a month at the time. I also recall a bunch of us (boys and girls) from my 6th grade class going to see _Porky’s_ without parental supervision - must have been 11 or 12 at the time. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/25 "2009-08-24T19:39:19Z")
I went to see Fortress when I was 13, it was 18s in the cinema here. God but it was shite. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/26 "2009-08-24T19:44:14Z")
Way back when _Christine_ was in theaters, I went with my then boyfriend who was 18 to my 14. He was carded. I wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/27 "2009-08-24T20:07:20Z")
R-ratings were never enforced when I was growing up. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/28 "2009-08-24T20:46:52Z")
No sneaking necessary in my day (late 1970s-early 1980s). If you had the money and had most likely hit puberty, you were in. The only time I ever saw a problem was when some high school kid was trying to take his 9-10 year old brother in to see Carpenter’s remake of _The Thing_. The ticket seller wouldn’ t budge. My first theatrical R was either _10_ or _Life of Brian_, both of which came out when I was 13. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/29 "2009-08-24T21:23:15Z")
I never had to sneak into movies because I went to see whatever my parents and other adults went to see regardless of rating or content, whether it be scary or gory or sexual. I think the only thing I couldn’t get into was an NC-17 movie, which I think was one of the zombie remakes. The only censorship I remember is my Dad’s girlfriend not wanting me or her kid to watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show on TV. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/30 "2009-08-24T21:26:52Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > [The Blue Lagoon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080453/) was probabaly the first R movie I saw without my mom knowing. I would have been about 14 that summer. Heh we saw this in high school in health class. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/31 "2009-08-24T21:32:40Z")
I snuck into American Beauty. They wouldn’t let my friend and I see it, so we bought tickets for something else and casually walked into the AB screen when we got near it. Nothing spectacular. The sequence of events leading me to see the movie that is. The movie was much more special. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/32 "2009-08-24T22:51:43Z")
> [@Mr\_Buttons](#): > > When I was 15, 2 friends and Ibought some tickets for some mediocre PG rated movie, then proceeded to head into the theater to watch [Barb Wire.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/) Truly awful movie, but as a 15 year old boy it was well worth wasting 1 1/2 hours of my life for a 30 second shower scene with Pamela Anderson in her prime. That was before the sex tape thing, so her boobs weren’t as easy to find back then. 🙂 Pam Anderson’s boobs have always been pretty easy to find. Even pre-sex tape, pre-Barb Wire, she was in Playboy and made some of those Playboy videos where she dances around naked and stuff. Granted, it was probably easier for a 15 year old to sneak into Barb Wire than get up the nerve to try and buy a Playboy (magazine or video form) and I won’t even guess at how successful such an attempt at that purchase would be. I just felt I had to correct the record about the easiness of seeing Pam’s boobs. I never snuck (or sneaked even) into any movie, of any rating. I’m such a dork that if I go to two movies on the same night at the same theater, I’ll go out and buy a ticket to the second movie instead of just walking over to the other screen after the first movie. (I don’t say this to try and come across as a goody-goody, honestly!) ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/33 "2009-08-24T23:17:49Z")
I saw Kids ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/)) when I was about 13 or 14. That was a lot for me to take in. Drugs, sex, violence, and pretty suggestive scenes. It remains somewhat of a cult classic. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/34 "2009-08-25T02:25:06Z")
> [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](#): > > [The Blue Lagoon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080453/) was probably the first R movie I saw without my mom knowing. I would have been about 14 that summer. Mine was “Blue Lagoon” also. I was 10 at the time. My aunt took me and her teenage sister into the theater and no one batted an eye. It was the second movie on a double bill with “Endless Love,” which we also watched. I learned a _lot_ that evening, let me tell you. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/35 "2009-08-25T03:50:22Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Risky Business and Flash Dance. Easy to do, as we just bought tickets to see something else at the multiplex and then walked in. I snuck in to see these two films in as well (in 1983, age 10). However, the first film I snuck into was _ **My Tutor** _ earlier the same year. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/36 "2009-08-25T04:05:24Z")
In high school I was with 2 friends who really wanted to see Not Another Teen Movie. Yeah. So we bought tickets for Harry Potter IIRC and planned on just walking into the other theater. We were at a theater at a mall we never went to, Friday night. Turns out the theater was split into 2 non-connecting hallways, and since it was a weekend the ticket takers were stationed at both hallway entrances instead of 1 before the snack bar. Our ticketed movie and intended movie were in different hallways. :smack: But my friend kinda flirted/fast talked the ticket kid and we got in anyway. The movie was a POS. Also I am now remembering getting into movies like Cruel Intentions in junior high. Not sure how. We went to the movies almost every Friday back then. Saw lots of crap! ---
**Author:** ![Peanut\_Gallery](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/838e76/32.png) [@Peanut\_Gallery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanut_Gallery)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2009, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/37 "2009-08-26T01:14:33Z")
At 15-16, friends and I got turned away from buying tickets to _Natural Born Killers_, but eventually found a theater/cashier that let us slide, so we paid. and to further disqualify myself … turns out it was cut to make R at release, but there was still a lot of controversy about it. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/38 "2009-08-30T04:49:20Z")
Only such movie I can think of is _Air Force One_ (I think I was about 13). Told my aunt I wanted to see it, she drove me to the theatre, bought the ticket for me, and let me go in while she went to watch something else. Later she got upset because she didn’t realize it was Rated R. I dunno if this counts, since I didn’t intend to sneak in, and actually asked an adult relative to buy me the ticket, but eh. Great movie. Loved the dogfight. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2009, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400/39 "2009-08-30T06:19:46Z")
A friend and I snuck into [Single White Female](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105414/) (rated R) when we were in grade seven (bought tickets for some G movie and then went into the other theater). Most movie theaters generally didn’t enforce ratings very often where I lived - likely we could have just bought tickets, but they might not have sold them to me since I was a really young looking 13 year old. Hilariously, the only time a ticket seller ever asked me my age was when I was about 23 or 24 and I was going to see an R movie with a bunch of friends who were 17 to 19 years old. None of them were asked their age, and I was. I guess I’ve always looked young for my age. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-r-nc-17-rated-movies-did-you-sneak-into-as-a-kid/507400.md?page=1)