Age limit on R-rated movies

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Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any laws passed in America in recent years that raised the age limit for going to see R rated movies?

The reason why I'm asking is because I was on a dinner/movie date last night. Our original plan was to go see Friday the 13th (which is rated R). Both me and my date are 17 and about 2.5 weeks away from our 18th birthdays, and I could've sworn that the lower limit for going to see an R movie was 17, but when I went to the box office to get tickets, they said we had to be 18. So instead we went to see the movie Push, which was PG-13. In retrospect I think we enjoyed seeing Push more than we would've enjoyed seeing Friday the 13th, but it's just the fact that we were denied admission to the latter that has me wondering.

Arigato!

Roxas

I'm 95% sure it's still 17, but theaters might be allowed to make their own rules about it. I know some theaters are less strict than others about under 17, maybe they decided to be even stricter and push the limit to 18.

I'm sure that R is 17 and that there's no rating at all where you have to be 18 (even NC-17 is... 17 because I went to a ridiculously gory horror movie one time when I was 19 and I just had to be 17). It was probably just the rules of that theater.

Probably because parents were complaining...

I think it's more of a regional thing, and how much of a power trip the person behind the ticket counter is on.

Thanks for the intel. I was about to make a mental note never to go to that cinema again until I realized that next time I watch a movie I will more than likely be 18 by then, hence it won't really matter.

Which means that if you're under 17, you won't get in, right?

No, 'no children 17 and under' means you can't get in if you're 17 years old or younger than 17. It means you have to be older than 17. At least 18.

Ahhh. Ok. I thought NC-17 just meant that you had to be at least 17 to see it, no matter what. Even being with a parent, you still had to be 17.

I was 19 when I saw the movie I was talking about, so I guess it didn't matter for me. But... maybe they were going by NC-17 rules for Friday the 13th. OK. In that case, you're right. You'd have to be 18.