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How did it end?

posted 12 years ago by halcarter
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Important phone call took me away from the last 5 minutes. Vincent Palmer is laying shot and Peter Boyle has hitched a ride there on a truck. Can anyone help. Thank You

[–] skep8 12 years ago

SPOILER: I also just watched "Slither" on TCM, and I saw it in the movie theater back in 1973. Vincent Palmer explains that he blew the embezzled $312,000 (that he was supposed to be safekeeping) three years earlier on a business venture that failed (the children's camp that was mentioned on a logo on the side of the first recreational vehicle that was following Peter Boyle and James Caan). Boyle tells his wife (Louise Lasser) that they can recoup some of the squandered money from the land that the camp owned. Caan asks himself what he is doing in the middle of nowhere at a vegetable stand and simply walks away. Credits roll. (The charm of the film was in the eccentric characters, not the plot!)

[–] halcarter 12 years ago

thank you arenn-2....what became of Kellerman's character?

[–] Eric-1226 12 years ago

There was nothing in the film's ending to indicate what happened to Kellerman's character. She probably drifted on down the road in her drifty way...

But to add to the other post about the ending, not only did Boyle's character talk about recouping the value of the money that was invested in the failed children's camp, he was absolutely glowing about the possiblilities that it offered, since the camp represented land, real estate. He was already thinking ahead about the money they could make from building, and subdivision, development, time-shares, all that sort of stuff. So, he was a "happy camper" in the end (no pun intended).

[–] imdb-744-577749 8 years ago

What I loved about the ending was that most of the money had been spent on the two recreational vehicles that they destroyed trying to retrieve the money.