The man had been accompanied by his wife to the film in the Northlands Mall, in Christchurch. Annoyed by his inability to keep his eyes open during the tearjerker, which stars Hilary Swank, she left him snoozing in the cinema after the film had ended. However, when he had still not come home by 3:00 a.m. on Thursday, she panicked, and returned to the cinema, calling him on his cell phone.
"When the man woke up and tried to find an exit, he triggered a motion alarm in the cinema and police were needed to unite the highly embarrassed couple," the NZPA news agency said.
The cinema management declined to comment on the incident. A police spokesman said it must have been one hell of a boring movie.
The film has received numerous bad reviews, with the LA Times saying, "You could go see P.S. I Love You, or you could hit yourself on the head with a meat mallet."
