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Last updated: July 22, 2009 5:06 p.m.

Cinema Sweet!

Steve Penhollow | The Journal Gazette
Cinema Suites

A friend of mine who lives and works in Kansas City, MO got the opportunity recently to sample AMC Entertainment's new moviegoing concept called Cinema Suites. It's an experiment happening at AMC Mainstreet, a multiplex that is often described as AMC's "flagship" theater, even though such nautical adjectives are nonsensical in this context if you think about it for a minute.

Luckily, we're not thinking about it for even a second.

Cinema Suites are luxury theaters featuring padded recliners and a recliner-side wait staff.

A full menu is available and it includes such atypical multiplex fare as Parmesan fries and Thai chicken.

This same multiplex also has a somewhat scaled down version of the dinner-and-a-movie concept called Fork & Screen and cash bars situated throughout called MacGuffins (a nod to Hitchcock).

You can expore the various concepts here.

Tickets to get into a Cinema Suite are $20 apiece but my friend says it's totally worth it.

The capacity in one of these luxury theaters is 64!

The nearest AMC multiplexes are in Crown Point, Indianapolis, and Merrillville and I suspect we have a better chance of seeing Ron Jon's Surf Shop in Indiana than this concept.

But a fella can dream can't he? I think this is the way multiplexes will have to go to survive.

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