A search is underway for a man who allegedly performed lewd acts while watching "The Emoji Movie" at a New Jersey movie theater on Friday.

A woman watching the movie with her children at the Xscape Movie Theater on Route 9 in Howell witnessed the man performing lewd acts with his hands down his pants, police said.

The woman said the man was seated alone in the back row of the theater with his pants unbuttoned and unzipped, pleasuring himself, police said.