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Salt Lake audience was engrossed in the new action-packed Batman movie when it was interrupted. Police stopped the film to arrest a father who was watching the movie while his child sat in a locked car in the Century 16 theater parking lot.

It was almost 2 a.m. Sunday when the 2-year-old boy was finally rescued from the car. The temperature inside was 87 degrees, but that wasn’t the only threat facing him.

While 23-year-old David Farnham was enjoying the 11:30 p.m. showing of “The Dark Knight” inside an air-conditioned theater at Century 16 Saturday night, his 2-year-old son, Justin, was all alone in a hot car, surrounded by signs that warn patrons to park at their own risk.

South Salt Lake police say Justin had been in the car for more than two hours when other movie goers noticed the child and called for help.

“The child was in the car, sweating profusely and crying,” said South Salt Lake police officer Gary Keller. “With the assistance of our fire department, we entered the car and got the child out of the car.”

The toddler was dehydrated and thirsty from being locked inside the 87-degree car with the windows rolled up, but he was in relatively good condition.