First R-Rated movie parents allowed you to see?

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funkmonk74@reddit

Cobra. Thought the gun on the cover was the greatest.

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My mom took me to see The Who's Tommy in 1975, I was 7. My parents allowed my Uncle to take me to see Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke at the Midnight Movies in 1978 when I was 10 years old. Back then people didn't care how old you were as long as you had a paying adult with you.

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Middle-Chemical9220@reddit

Police Academy

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JumpyRaccoon4327@reddit

Sharky’s Machine

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fkh24@reddit

I saw Beverly Hills cop in the theater when I was 7.

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lancerreddit@reddit

My folks let me come w them to see R rated movies. If there was a nude scene they’d just cover my eyes

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firstfloor27@reddit

Scarface.

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dustin91@reddit

Blazing Saddles I was 6.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Wow. That’s young.

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dustin91@reddit

Yeah, not sure if my parents couldn’t find a babysitter or what, but they were also really cool letting me listen to and watch adult comedy like Pryor and Carlin from an early age.

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Big_Metal2470@reddit

I don't know. My parents' attitude was they weren't missing movies and they weren't paying for a sitter, so I was going with them. They loved to tell people about how when they saw An American Werewolf in London, my two year old ass would loudly say, "Uh-oh, here comes the werewolf!" every time the full moon was shown. As I recently posted, they took me at the age of ten to see Born on the Fourth of July. My gay ass was traumatized by that scene with the prostitute.

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Goldbera1@reddit

Up in smoke or maybe the lost classic king of hearts.

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shadowknows2pt0@reddit

Dad took us to see Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield

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Narrow_Relative_5021@reddit

Porkys

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Bodkin-Van-Horn@reddit

This. My parents rented a VCR and a bunch of tapes for a week and me and my brother picked Porkeys. I don't think they realized what the movie was though.

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Narrow_Relative_5021@reddit

My dad was working out of town and we went to go visit him for the weekend. We went to the theatre and had the choice between On Golden Pond and Porky’s…dad didn’t want to see On Golden Pond 😂

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H1landr@reddit

I remember seeing Blazing Saddles at the drive-in but I was way too young to understand it. I watched a horror movie called The Evil that had Jim Ingnatowski's father as Satan in it. We watched it on a black and white TV with a piece of antenna wire with a piece of aluminum foil on it that you could slide up and down and get HBO on it. This was before there were cable boxes. You could get A box for HBO. It was Channel 4 on the dial. My mother took me to see Stripes when I was 8. I remember the trailer for Heavy Metal at that movie.

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CastlesandMist@reddit

Stand by Me

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WineTeacher18@reddit

The Wall. My mom took 12-yr-old me and my friends. She thought it was going to be a fun musical - lol

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OkSky850@reddit

Natural Born Killers

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ChatamKay@reddit

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Affectionate-Map2583@reddit

We saw Animal House as a family in the theater when I was 10. It might not have been the first one, but it was memorable.

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vwaldoguy@reddit

My parents took me to see the Jerk, which would have been 1979.

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defcas@reddit

Stand By Me

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notredame1964@reddit

The graduate- but my parents didn’t know

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JesseWebDotCom@reddit

Same (Blues Brothers) - but they covered my eyes on the “naughty” parts

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Incompetent_Magician@reddit

The Groove Tube. I was very young when we saw it at a drive in. It's not so much that I was allowed to see it, my parents didn't really make an attempt to understand the movie, who they were with when they saw it or well... anything.

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No_Acanthisitta_3603@reddit

National Lampoon's Animal House. It was wildly educational.

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jonathanclee1@reddit

Im not sure they knew what they were getting into when we went to the drive inn to see Smoky and the Bandit followed by Animal House lol my little mind was never the same.

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renelventconnemtary@reddit

Me too. Couldn't believe it.

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BottleAgreeable7981@reddit

Platoon, only because my Mom went with me as .y AJROTC instructor in high school put the movie over big time as accurate.

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FweejTheOverseer@reddit

Best Little Whorehouse In Texas My mom is deaf, but she wanted to see the movie, so she brought me to translate. 🤷‍♂️

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CharmReductionINC@reddit

Heavy Metal and Excalibur

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Positive-Swimmer7352@reddit

Trading Places

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AlbMonk@reddit

Saturday Night Fever ![gif](giphy|l41Yh18f5TbiWHE0o|downsized)

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Adequate-Monicker634@reddit

First Blood, on laserdisc

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

Puppet Master. I was about 6 years old or so.

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MoonageDayscream@reddit

Probably Garp, in the theater, with three uncles, but my parents would not have batted an eye. My mom brought to me to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror for my 13th birthday.

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Lopsided_Tomatillo27@reddit

Conan The Barbarian.

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jvlpdillon@reddit

We went as a family to the theater to see Conan. I was 8. My brother was 10. My mother had no idea it was rated R. I was oblivious to the nudity. My brother I am sure noticed though. I was traumatized by James Earl Jones being decapitated. I did not quite understand the idea of special effects.

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925doorguy@reddit

Didn’t allow it but my aunt and uncle hook me to see Action Jackson at the drive in. Great movie

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WTF_Bridgett@reddit

Excalibur

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ThirstySun@reddit

Standby Me

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Brother_Farside@reddit

Excalibur.

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Bertybassett99@reddit

They are really good.

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JimBowen0306@reddit

The Omen 2

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Grafakos@reddit

My mother took me and my brother to see The Blues Brothers. I was 11, he was 10. I'm sure my dad didn't approve, but whatever.

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budabua@reddit

Evil dead… I was not at school yet. Closely followed by children of the corn…. I’m scarred for life with horror movies.

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Murky-General5131@reddit

I was not supposed to watch.....Animal House, Blue Lagoon , or The Blues Brothers.......Animal House and The Blues Brothers my brother and I watched on TV while they were gone. They are both better movies uncut. Blue Lagoon I got to watch on cable(un cut) at a friend's house while our parents were upstairs playing cards

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JFeth@reddit

A double feature of Trading Places and Easy Money at the drive in.

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Igpajo49@reddit

My Grandma and Grandpa had HBO and they invited my family over to see "10" when it premiered on cable. I don't think they knew there was nudity, but it was so tame it wasn't that big of a deal. I was probably 12 or 13 and I knew there was so was looking forward to it. Lol. I remember my grampa kind of chuckling when the scene came up and was like "uh oh close your eyes kids!"

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dilettantes_life@reddit

Alien. And Sigourney Weaver…my goodness

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forested_morning43@reddit

Little Darlings

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whatsthis1901@reddit

Wow, I haven't thought about that movie in decades lol.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

Smoky and the Bandit and Cannonball Run one and Two and Best Little Whorehouse in TX at home with them once we got HBO. They weren’t paying for all of us to go see a movie in a theatre when we had a whole cable channel full of movies my dad was paying for at home, with food and beverages and popcorn also already paid for. Not on your tintype, young lady. The first one I saw in the theatre myself was Rattle and Hum, the U2 documentary, which she did NOT let me want to see (based on its name alone). It was rated R and I already 17 so haha. I wasn’t a big U2 fan but I wanted to take my 13 year old sister. The only way I got permission to take her was by stressing to my mom that B.B. King was in it. I think he was in it for 10 minutes.

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catsoncrack420@reddit

Psycho 2. Yeah let a little kid go with "that uncle" to a movie, take us out for fun. I didn't sleep right for months.

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thisisntmyotherone@reddit

There was a sequel to Psycho?

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MyriVerse2@reddit

Rosemary's Baby -- first one I remember, at least.

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TheEpicGenealogy@reddit

The Exorcist

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R67H@reddit

that may have been mine, too. On HBO? That channel was a gift. And my parents obviosly didn't give a fuck what I was watching, as long as it wasn't at a time THEY wanted to watch something

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TheEpicGenealogy@reddit

My mother loved horror movies, so I grew up with them. Vincent Price movies like every Saturday. I don’t know how we saw the Exorcist though, I was pretty young.

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R67H@reddit

Right on. Glad your mom shared her passion with you. That's really cool. If my dad was responsible, I would have been watching x rated shit a lot earlier than I did.

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rob19146@reddit

I was not restricted from watching anything so I don't remember the first. I know my mom regretted it at times because there were two times in my life she asked me not to sing Texas Has A Whorehouse In It and Like A Virgin in public since I was around 10 or so. I think she was worried the other parents were judging her.

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R67H@reddit

Lord have mercy on us all!!

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NotARace@reddit

Double feature, Blues Brothers and Animal House, mostly been downhill from there...

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R67H@reddit

that's a pretty high fucking bar to beat! Dude....you should have paced yourself. Ahh, but it's not a race, I guess.

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LameSaucePanda@reddit

Lord where do we start and how do I know which was first? Without checking, I’d bet a lot of these were probably PG-13 but today’s standards would have them R Police Academy movies Friday the 13th Caddyshack Halloween Pet cemetery The Shining Porkys …there are so many more. Nobody was watching us kids back then.

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R67H@reddit

Is "let" the same as "allowed through inattention"? If so...I'mma say Barbarella or The exorcist. Or Deer Hunter. If not... they let me go to an R rated film at a theater (Heavy Metal) unaccompanied on a date when I was, like, 11 or 12. No problems getting in without them, either. Good thing, because I brought cigarettes. Damn.... how did we survive?!?

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desertblaster72@reddit

I think it was Aliens. Was 13 and saw it in the theater.

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GJM_MCR@reddit

Friday the 13th?

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WorldFamous_InPoland@reddit

Stir Crazy. At a drive-in

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Defiant-Giraffe@reddit

Can't remember. It would have been a drive-in double feature most likely

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crudohr@reddit

The Warriors

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Diligent_Squash_7521@reddit

I went with a friend to see Rosemary’s Baby when I was twelve. It was rated M for mature audiences. The manager called my mom for authorization to allow us in.

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Appropriate_Gap1987@reddit

Smokey and the Bandit. We went to the theater when I was a kid. I think it is probably PG13 now LOL

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Remarkable_Monk_2136@reddit

Young Frankenstein

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Helenesdottir@reddit

That was PG

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I_like_fast@reddit

Stripes

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sbkoufos@reddit

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emoyer68@reddit

Don’t know about “allowed to see”, but BeverLy Hills Cop was the first one they took us to.

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Jpeckergnat88@reddit

Was on vacation in Hawaii and my mom got food poisoning. My dad took my older brothers and 10 yr old me to go see Bachelor Party. I did not quite understand what hookers, drugs, she-males or the dead donkey was about.

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NedRyerson92@reddit

Blade Runner.

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postfuture@reddit

Your parents policed the ratings of movies you watched?! We were all raised so different.

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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

I actually can't remember... my folks didn't really restrict my viewing a whole lot. However, I do remember the first R rated film I saw in the theater. My grandma and aunt took me to see Silence of the Lambs when I was about 12. Lol...that definitely left a mark, although to be fair... I don't think they realized quite how intense it was going to be.

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Papichuloft@reddit

80/81....my dad took me to see this movie in a cheap theater....only reason I got in was that the son of the owner and my father were childhood buds.

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Ok_Entrepreneur_8509@reddit

My parents didn't specifically allow it, but I watched Terminator at a friend's birthday party. He was Mormon, and his mother fast forwarded through the *sex* scene. Ripping a guy's heart out of his chest is fine for 12 year olds, but imagine what would happen if they saw a boob.

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Pharsydr@reddit

Lol, allowed… pffft. Return of the Living Dead. I was about 10.

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Rick--Diculous@reddit

Friday the 13th.

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VoodooKittyS197@reddit

I think it was Alien

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Defiant_Network_3069@reddit

Beverly Hills Cop

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GuyFromLI747@reddit

Anything that was on hbo or showtime around 1980 , I’d say porkys or Friday the 13th

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Kuildeous@reddit

Not sure which was first, but I remember watching *Alien* and *The Evil* on HBO with my father. Both terrified me, though a recent rewatch of *The Evil* didn't hold up as well.

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TK-385@reddit

Nightmare on Elm Street, but it was on cable by that point so I was probably 10 or 11 when I saw it.

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BrewCrewBall@reddit

Tales from the Crypt!

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ThickThighs73@reddit

An American Werewolf in London

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anthr0x1028@reddit

Terminator 2 in 1991

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AnnualNature4352@reddit

from the time iwas old enough to go to the movies, my dad took me to about 50% r rated movies. RIP pops

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GrandeRonde@reddit

So the movie theater in my small town never asked for parental permission. I literally can't remember the first R rated movie I saw because it was never an issue.

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DaniiMinoguh@reddit

Saturn 3. I liked sci-fi, so an easy sell. Really wanted to go because of Farrah, who was naked.

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Zesty-B230F@reddit

Probably the same. It was on basic TV and my dad let me watch with him. I was definitely in elementary school.

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