It's interesting, my first reaction in that scene when Flap feels guilty about cheating on Emma, was something like "OK,
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rascal67 — 9 years ago(June 03, 2016 09:37 PM)
Flap cheats, Emma cheats. Makes them both jerks by my book and then when she finds out, she leaves him. Not much of a hypocrite huh! Flap, while being an infidel, still had to balance a career with his womanizing, because he still had a family to support. A family that Emma wanted too.
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MuchToBeGratefulFor — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 04:55 AM)
What are you talking about? Emma never left Flap. They were still together when she died. That's the topic of this thread, that in their last scene together which was not long before she died, he admits cheating and she doesn't.
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rascal67 — 9 years ago(June 04, 2016 05:24 AM)
If I recall, Emma did leave Flap and went to Auroras. There is also a scene with Flap and Emma having a phone conversation by Nancy's poolside side and doesn't Flap want her to come back? He is cooking a barbecue for the boys. It's been a while since viewed.
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MuchToBeGratefulFor — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 08:17 AM)
Emma left him to visit her mother with the kids. The phone scene by the pool at Patsy's is when Flap calls to tell her that they are moving in a week to Nebraska, so she had to cut her trip short to get ready for a move she didn't want and hadn't even been consulted about. She had not left him and didn't then, as angry as she was about both the affair and getting moved on such short notice.
Also, the conversation between Emma and Flap, we only saw Emma's side. The phone conversation when Flap is cooking BBQ for the kids, is a different conversation, with Aurora, Emma's mother. I believe that is when Patsy took Emma to NYC when she had cancer.
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rascal67 — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 03:46 PM)
Cheers! It must have been Emma's anger that I recollected and was thinking of the scene when Emma visited Aurora with her kids alone and correlated that with her leaving Flap because she was annoyed with him. I think this is the scene when Teddy goes running up to Aurora yelling "grandma", "grandma". I love the look on MacLaine's face.
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Melancholy11 — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 11:19 PM)
What Emma did was so innocent compared to Flap. He was a piece of work. Seriously, the worst husband and father ever. He failed to provide for his family and was completely self centered. He was so weak and the end he agrees to give up the kids and you can see it breaks Emma's heart.