Phil's dad?
Was the old guy he keeps trying to save his father? He called him dad, pop and father...but maybe he was just feeling attached to him. I never quite got it. Thanks!
shareNot his dad.
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I doubt it was his Dad but it puzzled me why he never took the time to find out the old boys name rather than just referring to him as 'Pop'
shareI wish they had left in the deleted scene where Phil passes by the old man every morning but then starts to say, "Sorry Pop, you're going to die tonight."
Andy
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He probably knew his name, but just called him pop as an endearment. I always wondered something though. At one point, right before he took him for something to eat, he looked like he recognized him, and Phil says "yeah, remember me?" It could be from him seeing him earlier in the day, but it was just weird.
sharehis dad was gary busey.
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I watched this film when it came out as a young lad(9-10 years old) and I was so confused by that for a while.
I now realize he was using "Pop" as a term of endearment. It was not his father, but he kinda treated him as though he just found his estranged father homeless on the streets(at least later on in the film when he started calling him "Pops").