Who was the narrator?
Just a curiosity. The voice sounds an aweful lot like Micheal Keaton. I'm usually pretty good about picking voices out, but wanted to see something official on this to put my mind as ease.
shareYour right. The narrator was Micheal Keaten. He was just uncredited.
shareI wonder why they didin't credit him. I watched the movie like 3 times in a row and i still couldn't pick up who the voice was. I had to come onto IMBD and look it up.
shareI could have sworn the narrator was Joaquin Phoenix. Obviously I was wrong.
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Yeah I thought it was Joaquin too.
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This isn't the right thread, but starting a new one? Too much hassle.
I was wondering if the ending could be explained to me. I fell asleep when there were 15 minutes to go (not due to dull on-screen happenings, it was past 2am...). Oops.
Just all the who-ended-up-with-whos I guess. Thank you...
The boys' mother died - not sure how now I come to mention it, suicide? cancer? some other disease? - Pheonix marries Liv Tyler and they have 2 kids, naming the second after his mother, you don't see any of this, just told through voiceover at the end.
None of the other characters are given an ending really, although it's implied that maybe Crudup's character got the eldest Abbott pregnant while they were going out.
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Actually, Alice Abbott was pregnant from her ex-husband, Peter, not by Crudup's character. He only got with her after she was separated from her husband and already had the kid.
shareyes, the first kid, but
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when the narrator shows all character you see Alice Abbott pregnant again. So is this child from JC or was it conceived when she and Peter got back together.
>>The boys' mother died - not sure how now I come to mention it, suicide? cancer? some other disease?<<
I don't think it was suicide because of Joaquin's line when he says something like, "She didn't even tell anyone" and he was talking about her as if she had been in the hospital for a little bit (a week maybe? I can't remember)-that seemed to imply she had some sort of terminal illness.
>>although it's implied that maybe Crudup's character got the eldest Abbott pregnant while they were going out.<<
How is that implied?
"Duty? No...I would have you smile again..." ~Theoden
I think the mother had cancer, her coughing over Christmas was a foreshadowing of events.
shareI think the mother had (lung) cancer too, especially because of the christmas scene.
Do the *beep* snow angel, Dude!, Do the *beep* snow angel!
Half way through I thought for sure it was Arliss Howard. Don't think it sounds like Michael Keaton at all, but it was.
I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.
It absolutely was not suicide. Remember when she was in the kitchen and she coughed? Doug asked her if she was alright and she brushed it off saying that she had a cold. That always means in films that the character is gonna die!
shareBugged me a little why they didn't just use Joaquin Phoenix. Would've made more sense. It's not the same as Wil Wheaton (?) and Richard Dreyfuss in Stand by Me, where one's an adult and ones a child; Doug was already almost an adult even in the flashbacks, so why not use the same actor so the voices are the same?
"I've been turned down more times than the beds at the Holiday Inn; I still try"
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I guess I'd have to hear it again, I kept thinking it was Eric Close, but I was never certain. It sure sounded familiar and I wondered who it was as a backdrop to watching the whole movie.
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