Did you see her mom's house? She could just dump Flap and move back in with her (in fact, she does doesn't she?). Flap is a piece of crap.
Recall, when Emma learned she was pregnant with her third child and asked her mother for money, her mother wouldn't even do that for her. Her mother was not going to let her move back with a bunch of kids. Not to mention, Emma would be too proud to ask, after her mother had warned against marrying Flap in the first place.
And as I noted, Emma doesn't WANT to leave flap. She just doesn't want him to be cheating.
And no, Emma didn't move back with her mother. She took the kids for a visit. I thought it was clear when she headed to TX that it was a visit. It certainly was clear when Flap called and told her they were moving to Nebraska, and she went right back to get ready for the move.
you can shove that inflammatory feminazi accusation back up from where you found it.
Sorry you found it inflammatory and feminazi LOL. Apparently it's "feminazi" to state a fact you mentioned what Emma did in that scene, but not what Flap did. Yes, she DID come across as creepy, but there is a context. People tend to get a little crazy when they know they are being lied to and the other person won't admit it, and instead try to make it about them that they're paranoid. It's not paranoia when there really is something going on. That was quite low on Flap's part.
I don't discriminate against any of the characters in this. They're all equally creepy.
Thanks for clarifying.
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Did you see her mom's house? She could just dump Flap and move back in with her (in fact, she does doesn't she?). Flap is a piece of crap.
eresting that you think it's creepy the way she "interrogates" him, but make no mention about how creepy he is, dodging her accusation that he is cheating (which she was right about), by saying she gets paranoid when she is pregnant.
Yeah, you can shove that inflammatory feminazi accusation back up from where you found it. I don't discriminate against any of the characters in this. They're all equally creepy.
~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.

You are correct about Shirley MacLaine's (that her name) character, and Jack Nicholson's character, but part of the point was that they both became better people when they got involved with each other. As for Debra Winger's character:
she interrogates him in SUPREMELY CREEPY fashion to find out if he's cheating. Why bother if she even suspects it? Just dump his @ss.
Great idea, she has a young child, another on the way, and no way to make a living, but just go ahead and dump the guy.
Not to mention that she doesn't WANT to dump him, she wants him not to be cheating.
Interesting that you think it's creepy the way she "interrogates" him, but make no mention about how creepy he is, dodging her accusation that he is cheating (which she was right about), by saying she gets paranoid when she is pregnant.
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well now that you mention it, the characters are indeed pretty shabby
so many movies, so little time

LoL
Yes, she sounds like she's been a habitual smoker since the age of 6, with her raspy, hoarse voice.
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You forgot to mention Debra Winger's voice. Holy crap, it's creepier and more grating than the voice of Dracula! It sounds like the stone of a tomb grinding open over gravel!

Yes, I actually traveled through time here in my telephone booth from 19th century Belfast! How did you know?
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So, according to your narrow-minded, ideal worldview, everyone has to behave one way and one way only or else they're "creepy"?
If I didn't know better, I'd say you sounded like one of those witch hunters of the 1600s.
Human beings aren't robots, you know?

LOL,
Did you watch it whilst vaping?

I'm sure you can relate to this movie very well.
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Wow. Hey, expert over-exaggerator, I wish to say "Congratulations" on that perfect world in which you live..with all the beautuiful, flawless people in it. What rock is it under?

Life is messy and I think that's what makes this so real and such a good movieit's definitely messy! I don't know if I'd say creepy but I get what you're saying.

I sooo agree! Half the time I was really uncomfortable. Regardless, I enjoyed this movie and I'd watch it again.

Plenty of rational mature men aren't atrracted to girls young enough to be their daughters. Fifty-year-old boys may be attracted to 20-year-old girls but there's no hope for those overgrown baby men for a lot of reasons.

I'd say Shirley's character was about as sexually repressed as they came and Jack was just being a typical middle-aged bachelor that chooses to be sexually honest with himself. Come on! What man regardless of age is NOT attracted to young girls!

Your wrong. Debra loved her children. Jack and Shirley overcame their isolation and connected

I don't know if I would have used the word 'creepy'. But I remember when I first saw it that I thought that there wasn't one sympathetic character in it. Which made it very true to life. All the characters are self-absorbed to the point of neurosis. A lot like most of the people that I've ever been in contact with.

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