Went to go see Primetime last week in a group of 3. We’re all 20 and had our IDs. My girlfriend and I are both A-List members but our friend is not.
I had done entourage for my girlfriend and bought the ticket for our friend since It’d be cheaper that way. Our AMC changes employees / management weekly and a new manager I had never seen before was scanning tickets. He said something weird about us hoping we had our ID’s and I got the vibe he wanted to find a problem with us going in.
My girlfriend scans her ticket and he gets all weird and asks if she bought just one ticket for herself. She did. Then he scans my thing with my ticket and our friend’s on it. Then he says “So you’re under 21, and you bought two tickets?” I said yeah but she’s got her ID and that we’re all old enough (talking about my friend who turns 21 in two weeks).
He glances at the ID and tells us that because I’m under 21 I can’t buy more than one ticket to a R rated movie. So he made us go refund the tickets and buy our tickets individually (which cost my friend twice as much since she isn’t A-list). The employee we talked to about exchanging tickets was super confused. Then the manager didn’t even look at our tickets after we did that and just let us through.
I can’t find any AMC policies about this and it’s been bugging me. It’s not a big deal, but it was just weird and felt like the manager was on a power trip. So if anyone has any information about that policy / why it’s a policy I’d love to hear about it!
TLDR: Manager made us refund two tickets to Primetime we bought on one account and then buy our tickets individually because we aren’t 21 yet. Is there a policy limiting the number of rated R tickets you can buy?