He starts to leave to go home but goes back inside her house because it's raining and he's left the top down on his convertible.
The scene just fades away to a later scene and they are now officially a couple and deeply involved in each other's lives.
So, did he spend the night or not that rainy night?
I'm watching this for the umpteenth time - needed some cheering up.
I wondered the exact same thing about Jake spending the night. I think they intentionally left it ambiguous - to be edgy since it was 1968.
From what my dad used to tell me, the answer would be no. Doris' character would not want to set that example for her boys.
The fact that they get married privately, without even telling the children underscores how seriously they felt about sex being "after marriage".
I believe her children were away on a camping trip with her sister and it was the housekeeper's day off, so there was no impediment to her letting him stay.
On the other hand, after they are married their first night together begins with them negotiating who sleeps on which side of the bed and where his shoes go.
So it could go either way. Thanks for your response.
Oh you beat me to it! I have it playing on headphones while putting away Christmas. I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention - her boys were all away. So FOR SURE he spent the night.
That was the purpose of the rain - the thing that tipped it in favor of going ahead. Just the fact that the boys were gone was not quite enough. They had to show that both Jake and Abby took their relationship and sex seriously. But they were only human.
That nod to realism was one of the nice things about many of these films that get labeled as "family" fare. On the surface everything looks quite Disney-ish. But it's all there if you're paying attention.
It was sweeter when sex was forbidden fruit. But yeah, he spent the night!
I THINK I agree with you - but what about my observation that on their wedding night they seem ed to be negotiating who sleeps on what side? Does that argue in favor it being their first time?
On the other hand, another thing in favor of believing he stayed the night: check out the very next scene after they go inside from the rain. It fast-forwards in time by weeks or months and they are definitely a couple. The juxtaposition of the two events seems to imply that a significant step was taken that rainy night.
Thanks for the reply and making the conversation interesting!
It think it is strongly implied that he stayed the night.
But I don't get the very next scene, with them coming home to his house, with his teenage daughter. It appears to be the next night, with no rain. But what happened to the next day?
By skipping the day the passage of some time is implied. Thus the next scene establishes that they are now "going steady".
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