how old was max ?
i want to know how old was max because that chractor seemed to be too old to date a high school girl i mean come on it seemed to me that he was an adult stock brooker
shareI always assumed Max to be around 25. Ryan was 18 and about to graduate, so it was okay.
shareMax was 29. It isn't a stretch: when I was 29 I looked about 16.
shareHe was either 28 or 29. Close enough to say "I'm almost 30" at one point.
My question is...how old is Patrick? He's only just starting to get his drivers license, which suggests he's about to be or just turned 16, but is in the same grade/classes as Andrew/Max and Ryan, and graduates with that whole crew...did he skip grades, or were the writers reaaaaaaally lazy about his character? I know the first part of the movie is either the very beginning of senior year, or the very end of junior year (most logical times to have elections for senior class officers) but still. I was near the young end of my class (late October birthday), and I turned 16 at the very beginning of junior year.
Just something kind of odd I noticed. Of course, this movie also has a 28-29 year old actually falls in love with a 17-18 year old without someone saying the word "pedophile." Actually, I'm going with 17 since she got "early" admission in to Iowa.
Someone should go teach them how to change the channel.
Maybe Patrick just waited a while to get his liscence. Not everyone gets their lisence straight away.
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I was 16 when i started my senior year since my bday was late(in Dec) Years ago the cut off was Dec 31st so he Patrick could easily be 16 when he was a senior.
shareAlso some states you have to be 17 to get your drivers license like here in NJ
shareNot to mention the fact that Patrick was obviously a terrible driver, perhaps he failed out of drivers ed the first time. My sister was so bad she failed her the driving test like 3 times and didn't end up getting her license until she was 18.
What I think is funny is that when Cryer had the beard he looked anywhere from 24 to 30, without it he looked about 16, and in real life he was about 22.
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At the time, starting at age 16, you could get a real/regular license in Iowa which was renewed until you were 21, when the sideways picture was replaced with a frontal face shot and the minor (red) coloring was removed. Most kids lived in rural areas and were driving equipment with a restricted license from age 14. But you couldn't get the license under the age of 18 without taking a test to get your permit, a certificate from a driving class and and good scores on driving and written tests.
At the time, there was no cut-off for kindergarten. When you could pass the skills test, you were in. I could do numbers, letters, songs, and picture writing in English, French and Spanish (yes I was the oldest spawn of over-educated and obsessive people) as well as being potty-trained by aged 4, so I was in.
<i>Patrick most likely had to take the driving class to get the certificate to get the license. If he went into school right at five, he wouldn't have been able to take the class until age 16--his junior year. As he mucked it up, he took it again in the fall and thus it took until he was ready to graduate to get his car.</i>
My senior year in high school, I was 17 (summer birthday). I was also considered in the age of consent sexually (if the older party is 18-21 and the younger party is 16-17, its not automatic statutory rape) and was allowed to group date with a member of the community theater troupe who was 20.
<i>By the time the trial and relocation was done, it was two years after the main part of the movie takes place. By then, Ryan was at least 19 to Andrew's 31, which is a little less creepy than the starting 17 and 29.</i>
Wow, what a bunch of prudes IMDB must be. My post that questioned the term 'Pedophile' being used to describe Max dating a 17-18 year old was deleted by an administrator, probably because someone complained. Again, pedophilia is a sexual attraction to prepubescent boys/girls, not a 10 year age gap between a 17-18 year old and a 27-28 year old. You may call it creepy, and you may not agree with it, but it is not pedophilia.
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