How the hell could Janeane Garofalo's character be locked out of her house with her keys sitting on the end table in her living room? That's impossible; she would need the house key in her hand while outside of the house to be able to lock the deadbolt. She lived alone, right? She would have been the only one who could lock the door.
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Quite true. Also, while you cannot lock yourself out with a dead bolt whilst inside the home, many (if not most) exterior doors on homes will allow you to lock the doorknob lock and then close the door. Some (like mine) will even allow you to open it from inside while the doorknob is locked. So it can be quite easy to lock yourself out of the house with your keys sitting on the table just inside the door.
shareWell, there are always goofs in films to begin with. I wonder how did she get back into her house again? They just drove to Dave's house and that was it.
shareI'm sure they ended up calling a locksmith the next day or something. Although, I could have sworn that when Vic first picked her up, she had her key in the lock of the front door. I could be wrong though :p
shareI might be way off here but is it possible that she pretended to be locked out just to spend more time with Vic? Maybe she secretly liked the guy but didn't want to show it?
shareIt's totally possible.
The front door to the house I grew up in has a little button on the inside of the knob that locks the door. You don't need a key to lock every type of door lock. Unless it was shown in the movie to be a deadbolt or something. I don't recall.
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It's possible the door locked from the inside. What bugged me was when Vic went over to Dave's house with her, he never explains WHY he came over. He doesn't say oh we got locked out. He just brings her over and why didn't he go back to his own place?
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Yeah, it sort of bothered me, too, that the first words out of his mouth weren't that she locked herself out but, with all that was going on, I can see why he stopped caring about the explanation.
As far as why he didn't go back to his place -- would YOU want to spend any 'alone' time with that woman?? I'd definitely want the support of my friends to just get through the hours it took until a locksmith could be called!
(The thing that DID bother me a lot was that he didn't cut this 'date' short in between her coughs! By the time the menus arrived and since he apparently left his at home, he should have just ordered some backbone to GO-O!!)
I agree! She was so danged obnoxious and irritating. The coughing scenes went on for far too long. Her immature and unsafe behavior in the car on the way home was enough to get punched in the face. Then when she couldn't find her keys she made it like his fault, calling him "Mr. Wonderful, I can't find my keys," and he fell for it. I was really disappointed in the wrap up when they said they were dating, but you knew that was coming when they were sitting there playing cards, listening to him on the radio, and she's crying crocodile tears saying, "I love this man." Mistake to get involved with that psycho be-yotch. Her screaming and screeching were just too nails-on-chalkboard over the top.
The only other thing that didn't work was the part where Donny almost fell out of the tree and Emma pulled him up into the treehouse. Emma was too small and slight and not in the right position to drag her father up into the treehouse.
WRONG!!!! I've lived in many houses that you can lock from the inside w/o the key. Of course the dead bolt is another story. (If you lock the deadbolt.)
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