Okay so in the long run, was it a choice between divorce or jail?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Mrs. Doubtfire
kodakjones — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 07:11 PM)
Because either way, Daniel loses! DivorceMiranda gets custody, loss of kids for awhile, but a chance to pull it together, is a chance just the same.
Remember at the beginning of the movie how Miranda is met with a police officera cop, a real cop not an entertainer, not a man pretending to be a cop/the real deal and he's telling her about all the violations, and laws, and disturbances basically all the laws that Daniel broke to throw this awesome partywell, since Daniel was the one to break the lawsdisturbing the peace then he should have been arrested right?
Miranda tells him she wants to divorce.
Cut to a few montages later, and the kids learn that Daniel is in fact Mrs. Doubtfire. What once seemed like a good idea is now starting to unravel. Daniel is lucky he is not being charged with more excessive crimes, such as violating the court orders, fraud, money-laundering signing checks for someone who doesn't exist, vandalism tearing off the emblem to Stu's car and attempted murder. Pouring vast amounts of pepper didn't just make Stu's dinner inedible, but it could have killed him due to allergic reactions, that counts as poisoning, if Stu overheard Daniel by the pool saying "Touch me again, I'll drown you, you bastard" he could have argued a case against Daniel saying it was premeditated.
A lot of those things could have ended badly for Daniel and he even admitted that if Natalie found out he would be behind plate glassAKA Jail at visiting hours. The judge was far too kind in just suggesting Daniel get evaluated at a mental health facility and counseling->meaning he left it up to Daniel's own choice if he got counseling or not>did not order it by the courts and he could easily have done that.
So Daniel stays divorced, but at least at the end, he is not in jail.
So what the hell happened? Did he have to choose between jail and divorce? Was that secretly a driving force the writers didn't realize they had?