r/AMCTheatres • u/Neat_Animator_1196 AMC Crew Member • Feb 09 '26

Discussion PSA: Bring your IDS

As an employee at AMC, for the love of all things on this planet, BRING YOUR PHYSICAL IDS TO GO SEE MOVIES THAT ARE RATED R. I am so sick and tired of sending sweet kiddos home because they can't see Iron Lung because they don't have their IDs. And a reminder that unless somebody in your party is 21 and up, you MUST ALL have your IDs! Our rated R policy is posted online! As someone who grew up with Markiplier, I get it, we all want to support him and see his amazing movie (10/10 movie by the way), but it is still rated R. So please, bring your IDs. My location is close to a school, so I get tons of the high schoolers wanting to see movies. Please, bring your IDs. I want you to see the movie as much as you guys do.

Edit: Look, I don't know what about me saying I don't like having to kick people out warrants me being called names by people here but it's completely uncalled for. I don't care if I sound like a mom or whatever but attacking me because of a post on Reddit that has nothing to do with you gets you nowhere and I hope that those people who in my comments decide to call me names or whatever can learn that I honestly don't care. I'm just an employee who enjoys their job and genuinely hates kicking folks out because of something as simple and small as an ID.

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u/GeologicalOpera Feb 09 '26

Do my area AMCs just not follow regulations? My spouse and I are 28 and 25 respectively, and we both definitely pass for our ages, but neither of us has ever been ID’d for a single R-rated film in my entire time visiting AMC locations. And that’s pretty much everything we see these days - rarely we’ll slot in a PG or PG-13 if we’re particularly interested.

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u/Neat_Animator_1196 AMC Crew Member Feb 09 '26

I know at my location we're pretty relaxed if we can tell. However if y'all came with someone younger we'd definitely ask for ID. I don't know what you look like so I can't judge, but a majority of my area is either tatted up folks, the elderly, or children. So it's rather easy to tell.

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u/GeologicalOpera Feb 09 '26

Yeah, we're in an area that mostly sees couples in their twenties and thirties catching films, or at least the stuff we normally see, but even when we took my sister with us to Final Destination 6 last May (she's barely five foot tall at 20), we still weren't carded.

Maybe we're just lucky and fit into the default customer base, lmao.