Ick!


OK, I saw this in the theater back in the day, and had mixed feeling about it - parts I liked and parts I didn't. I also remember it being sad and not as uplifting as some people thought.

I'm watching it again on cable now and -- ICK! The Jody character is just creepy! WHo does she think she is? Get an ADULT to sleep with you! I find t very disturbing (and doubtful) that someone who's always spouting that she "helps people" would prey on a vulnerable teen who just lost his father. Almost negates the help she gives Beth at the end.

Plus (on a lesser note) she buys him creepy clothes. What's she trying to do - turn him into Don Knotts?

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I really didn't get the Jody character either. She has this almost evil grin when she told him to try on another pair of pants.

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Exactly! There's something I just don't trust about her (hey - maybe it's because she's sleeping with underaged boys...)

I'd hate to see the other ways that she "helps people"

Kris

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The whole problem with most of the characters is that we really don't get to know them. The screenplay doesn't let us understand Jody at all. It neither gives us consequence or judgement. You have to have consequence. Was she immoral? Was she harmful? How exactly was she helpful in becoming a girlfriend/mom for the Chris O'Donnal character. I can actually see this relationship being utterly valid if the screenplay had just given us what actors call motivation. I love Joan Cusack in everything she does. I wonder how she reconciled this woman in hear head.


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