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Movie Theater for Mothers with Babies
Aired November 15, 2002 - 05:54 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: If you have ever been to a movie with a crying baby, you've probably experienced those angry eyes shooting daggers your way. But now there's a solution that may one day come to a theater near you.
Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Do you cry at sentimental movies? Well, this crowd cries at any kind of movie. If a single baby wailing in a theater gets on your nerves, imagine 150 of them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Every once in a while a symphony of cries.
MOOS: But no one gets annoyed because the audience is nothing but moms and babies.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Love it. I love it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's the greatest thing that's happened since I've had a baby.
MOOS: Some of these infants have seen more films than I have lately.
(on camera): First movie?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.
MOOS: How many?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Four.
MOOS: Thanks to Loews Cineplex. The chain is experimenting with film showings for moms and babies only and maybe a couple of dads.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're outnumbered.
MOOS: The movie this day was "White Oleander," the story of a poisonous mother-daughter relationship.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you feel like a good mom coming out of that one.
MOOS: The wife of a Loews executive hatched the idea of movies for moms.
JOHN MCCAULEY, LOEWS CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT: In fact, I'm a recent father and my wife had just talked about our lack of movie going.
MOOS: Loews teamed up with Urbanbaby.com. This showing took place at 11:00 a.m., a time when the theater would otherwise have been nearly empty. There was valet parking for strollers and kiddy entertainment before the show.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALES: ... went up the water spout.
MOOS: The idea is for the moms to socialize.
(on camera): See, I have a baby, too.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You do?
MOOS: No, I don't.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No?
MOOS: This is it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You also don't have to pull out your boob in the movies.
MOOS: Pull out my boob?
(voice-over): There was a lot of breast feeding in the darkened theater. It's like having your very own concession stand and it's a lot cheaper than buying popcorn. Some found the number of babies overwhelming.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They should serve martinis.
MOOS: Kids climbed the stairs, crawled out to the lobby. They did what babies do.
MCCAULEY: You just never know when there's going to be an unsuspected spit up.
MOOS: Oops.
(on camera): Does he spit up?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Always.
MOOS (voice-over): The crying was bearable. The movie itself got so-so reviews.
(on camera): It's a sound bite. It's probably not clean.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, she's a second child. It's all right.
MOOS: There were diapers being changed on the floor inside the theater and outside in the lobby.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She literally poops like once a week and she decides to poop in the middle of the movie.
MOOS: Now that's cinema verity. Hey, kid, the screen's on the wall, not the ceiling.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired November 15, 2002 - 05:54 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: If you have ever been to a movie with a crying baby, you've probably experienced those angry eyes shooting daggers your way. But now there's a solution that may one day come to a theater near you.
Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Do you cry at sentimental movies? Well, this crowd cries at any kind of movie. If a single baby wailing in a theater gets on your nerves, imagine 150 of them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Every once in a while a symphony of cries.
MOOS: But no one gets annoyed because the audience is nothing but moms and babies.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Love it. I love it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's the greatest thing that's happened since I've had a baby.
MOOS: Some of these infants have seen more films than I have lately.
(on camera): First movie?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.
MOOS: How many?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Four.
MOOS: Thanks to Loews Cineplex. The chain is experimenting with film showings for moms and babies only and maybe a couple of dads.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're outnumbered.
MOOS: The movie this day was "White Oleander," the story of a poisonous mother-daughter relationship.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you feel like a good mom coming out of that one.
MOOS: The wife of a Loews executive hatched the idea of movies for moms.
JOHN MCCAULEY, LOEWS CINEPLEX ENTERTAINMENT: In fact, I'm a recent father and my wife had just talked about our lack of movie going.
MOOS: Loews teamed up with Urbanbaby.com. This showing took place at 11:00 a.m., a time when the theater would otherwise have been nearly empty. There was valet parking for strollers and kiddy entertainment before the show.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALES: ... went up the water spout.
MOOS: The idea is for the moms to socialize.
(on camera): See, I have a baby, too.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You do?
MOOS: No, I don't.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No?
MOOS: This is it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You also don't have to pull out your boob in the movies.
MOOS: Pull out my boob?
(voice-over): There was a lot of breast feeding in the darkened theater. It's like having your very own concession stand and it's a lot cheaper than buying popcorn. Some found the number of babies overwhelming.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They should serve martinis.
MOOS: Kids climbed the stairs, crawled out to the lobby. They did what babies do.
MCCAULEY: You just never know when there's going to be an unsuspected spit up.
MOOS: Oops.
(on camera): Does he spit up?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Always.
MOOS (voice-over): The crying was bearable. The movie itself got so-so reviews.
(on camera): It's a sound bite. It's probably not clean.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, she's a second child. It's all right.
MOOS: There were diapers being changed on the floor inside the theater and outside in the lobby.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She literally poops like once a week and she decides to poop in the middle of the movie.
MOOS: Now that's cinema verity. Hey, kid, the screen's on the wall, not the ceiling.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
