What happens when you mix alcohol with movies with an R-rating for nudity or sexual content?
In Utah, you get fined and your license can be suspended.
Recently, Brewvies the theater in Salt Lake City where moviegoers can sip the beverage of their choice found out again that "Deadpool" (rated R) combined with Moose Drool (4.1 percent by weight) equals a spanking from the attorney general's office and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (DABC).
It isn't the first time Brewvies has been punished by the DABC. Previously, after the screening of "The Hangover Part II," the theater was slapped with a fine of $1,627.
For the "Deadpool" violation, Brewvies faces a fine up $25,000 and a 10-day suspension of its liquor license.
hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m. before the DABC commission.
Brewvies, apparently, has had enough and issued an ultimatum Monday to the attorney general. It seeks the repayment of the fine for "The Hangover Part II," a notice of action for "Deadpool" be rescinded, and a promise that no such enforcement action will take place in the future.
The attorney general may not be agreeable. In a July 1, 2015, letter to Brewvies, Sheila Page, an assistant attorney general representing DABC, stated that Brewvies must adhere to Utah law that disallows movies that are R-rated for sex or nudity where alcohol is served.
"The statutory prohibitions found in the Attire, Conduct and Entertainment Act governs conduct of DABC licensees and specifically addresses the showing of films, still pictures, electronic reproductions, or other visual reproductions depicting sex acts, simulated sex acts, genitals, etc," she stated.
On Feb. 26, three undercover agents from the Utah Bureau of Investigation went to Brewvies. They ordered beer and entered the theater, according to their report.
The results of the investigation by Officer Bradley Buck states: "The male and female characters are shown having sex while nude."
In another instance, according to the report, there is a brief scene of male full-frontal nudity.
The investigation narrative also includes the final credits where "a drawing of the main character (male) is shown as he rides on the back of a unicorn, he rubs its horn briefly until the horn shoots out rainbows (simulating orgasm)."
