Mother of the little boy
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Hope Floats
froggie234@hotmail.com — 20 years ago(October 08, 2005 08:54 PM)
One thing that really irked me about this movie was the complete absence of Birdie's nephews mother in the film. She must have been the most selfish person in the movie, because she just ran off to Hollywood and left that child with his grandmother. And what's worse, she didn't even come to her own mother;s funeral! What a selfish little you know what! I wish they had given one more scene to the movie, where that horrible little skank came back and Birdie could have given her a good reaming out for being a horrible mother.
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brainybrailler — 18 years ago(October 18, 2007 01:48 PM)
I think they showed her selfishness better by having her just send Birdee a telegram asking her to watch Travis instead - he's depressed that she wouldn't even write to him, but does resolve to try visit her one day, so he's clearly not angry past forgiving (remember that scene earlier in the film where he says the stepmother from Hansel and Gretel should've been burned in the oven, and Ramona defends his mother?). Anyway, I think seeing her distant sister would've been one too many things for Birdee to handle with already grieving and dealing with her husband and getting through to her daughter. She accepted to watch Travis so I guess she would've found that easier than jumping down her sister's throat right about then.
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ElianBaker — 9 years ago(December 22, 2016 01:32 PM)
I actually liked her absence because it felt real. There are a lot of abandoned kids out there and you rarely see it referenced in films.
It was cool to see the contrasting motherly relationships in this movie and especially how that affected Travis and Bernice.