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The ending is stupid

posted 15 years ago by Lindahrosen
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Although I really like this movie, here is what I find completely unrealistic. At the end of the movie, the Food Chain offers to buy Country Baby for some ungodly sum of money like 1-3 million. I can't remember the exact amount. Instead of turning down the whole offer (which included a job for JC of nearly 1 million per year in salary), why didn't she just take a lump sum for the company, reject the job, and leave it at that. She could have invested that money, lived off the interest and had all the time in the world to spend with her baby and new guy. She could have even started another career. It just doesn't make sense to me. Am I missing something?

[–] The LA Baker (803) 2 years ago

Yup. It was dumb.
She clearly had carte blanche to ask for whatever she wanted. She could have said, "I want 20 million upfront. I want to keep my facility as the primary manufacturing facility and all current and future employees' job security. I want to keep the branding with my baby's face. You will own the company and run it under my supervision, and I get 5% of all gross profits. Furthermore, none of the manufacturing facilities can ever be in a big city. They must remain in rural locations."

[–] xanthas (3215) 8 months ago

But she does say that she can put Country Baby on every grocery store shelf without Food Chain's help. This way she can keep all profits for herself AND do it her way.

[–] The LA Baker (803) 4 months ago

Yes, but that would require her doing a lot of work. Instead, she could simply supervise with absolute veto/redirection powers.
Then she could keep the company as she wants it to be, make even more money, and work very little. Thus, she would have the ideal best of both worlds. She retains control of her beloved company and gets to live in the small town on the property she has come to love and with the man she adores.

Seems like a very easy and clear decision to make.

[–] mikethemartian (6200) 3 months ago

She basically said “f**k you” to them and I would have done the same thing if I was in a similar situation.

[–] mechajutaro (2788) 3 months ago

When The OP asks "Did I miss something", no one provided them with the obvious answer:

"Yeah... You didn't recognize that by 1987, Diane Keaton was a bit long in the tooth to portray a yuppie"