Annoying Scene

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What I don't understand is that Miranda was saying she had to go to the market, the bank and to drop off the newspaper add but the whole scene took place at night?!

Yes, I really felt for Daniel. She turns up early and before the children have finished their meal and then starts slating his apartment, therefore belittling him in front of the little ones.

I have never liked her character much - I certainly wouldn't rate Miranda over Daniel. Both were flawed in their own right but Daniel was a lot more liberal than the decidedly anally-retentive Miranda. She placed WAY too much importance on her career and plumping up her cushions whereas Daniel wanted a more relaxed approach - wanting their children to actually enjoy their childhoods.

Don't get me wrong, he was totally out of order to host his son's Birthday party in the house. It was unrealistic anyway - he maintained he had intended to clean the place up prior to her return from work when in fact it would have taken a month of Sundays given that he had animals wandering around on top of all the food mess.

Miranda showed some goodness when she was talking to "Mrs Doubtfire" in the kitchen and saying she didn't like whom she had become when in Daniels's company which was perhaps her one redeeming feature throughout the whole film.

"Has anyone seen my wife?" - Columbo

It was because she wanted the kids away from Daniel. Pure and simple.

Not to mention it was a Saturday. The bank and the newspaper on a Saturday night? The newspaper MAYBE...but definitely not the bank.

It's not that implausible. My stepmother does the same thing with my brothers and my dad.

I agree, I always thought Miranda was a huge b*tch in that scene, causing Daniel and the kids to lose TWO hours together. Especially since she could've easily done those run of the mill errands before picking them up. You just know she was doing it purely to spite Daniel and punish him as much as possible, who cares how the kids felt.

I think you are actually missing the point of the scene, even as much as you say it annoys you. But if you remember it is very early in the divorce, and it is quite clear that Miranda is mad with Daniel Hillard, and it seems clear to me but not you, that she wants to make as little trips to his house as possible. So say if she showed up early and left the kids there for the hour, and then came back and get them, and say that she dropped them off, that would be 3 trips to his house that I am sure that there is no way that she would want to make. And also if I am remembering correctly, she even says something to the point of to her kids, "don't forget anything I don't want to come back". Does what I am saying make it more clearer to you, and I would also bet it would be out of the question, of Daniel driving the kids back to her house after the visit was over. So what do you want her to do, spend an hour at his house when I am sure that is something that she doesn't want to do. And I am also remembering correctly that Daniel also points out to Miranda that she was an hour late dropping them off, and of course she is an hour early picking them up. So I would think that she wants Daniel to spend lesser time with his kids then appointed. I don't know what the hours that was set, all I know it was scheduled for every Saturday, and I know that it would be for more then 2 hours. And for the kids, for the older ones I think that they were smart enough to argue with their mother about even more time with their dad, as they would have known that she was already angry with Daniel, and they didn't want to make her anymore angry even with them.