'Emoji Movie' Audience Member Allegedly Pleasured Himself During Screening in New Jersey

08/31/2017 03:59 pm EDT

A New Jersey man is being investigated for allegedly touching himself at a movie theater while watching the children's films, The Emoji Movie.

A mother with her children at the Xscape Movie Theater on Route 9 allegedly saw the suspect with his hands in his pants during a showing of the film, according to New Jersey's News 12. The woman told law enforcement officials that the man was seated alone in the back row of the theater.

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The mother reported the incident to the manager at the theater, who promptly asked the man to leave. After returning home, the woman then called the police.

The Emoji Movie is an animated flick that was voiced by stars including T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Patrick Stewart, Sofia Vergara, Rachael Ray, and Sean Hayes.

SYNOPSIS: The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression - except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it's deleted forever. Written by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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The Emoji Movie hit theaters on July 28, 2017.

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