This is the only question that I have about this film:
Why did Jillian go to Spencer's boss's wife to obtain the pills to cause her miscarriage? I thought that scene was so odd. It was like part of the story had been edited out or something.
Any ideas???
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I got the feeling that other astronauts' wives, beyond Jillian and the woman who killed herself in the bathtub, had suffered the same fate before. The boss's wife understood this and so provided Jillian with another means of escaping her fate.
shareThanks---that sounds like a logical explanation.
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Hey, that makes sense! I was confused too.
Notice much earlier in the story, the boss's wife said to Jillian that her laugh was so *authentic*. In other words, she hadn't been taken over by aliens yet, maybe.
Unfortunately, this is just another bit of confusion with the screenplay. There is so much potential here, but so many flaws. This introduces a whole possibility of a hidden "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", but really doesn't go anywhere. In the end, we think just Jillian is involved, but this scene hints at something deeper, yet it is never developed.
Whoa, I'd forgotten how she had mentioned her laugh was authentic. I was also wondering why she went to the boss's wife for the pills. It did seem rather random, no?
This movie had a lot of potential... what happened?
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I really don't think that all this was to suggest that the other astronauts being taken over by aliens!
The point was that all the other astronauts because so involved in their work that they didn't have time for their wives any more. So when Spencer starts acting strangely she knows something is up, but at first she thinks its because he has become wrapped up in work too like the other husbands.
The reason she goes to another wife is (I assume) that she doesn't know anyone else there so they are the closest thing she has to friends, especially as they have gone through similar experiences with their husbands (without the alien stuff!).
Still a crap movie tho...
One little problem with the idea that she didn't know anyone else there: There in this case is New York City, and they have things like clinics and doctors and stuff, and while abortifacients like RU486 might not have been readily available in 1999, abortions were.
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I noticed her mentionning the laugh too, and yes it was confusing
shareWhy would the boss's wife still have pills like that, anyway? She is obviously well past menopause, so she isn;t keeping them on hand for herself.
shareIt doesn't really matter. There are other things in the movie that should draw our attention, let's not get stuck with the small stuff.
shareI agree that there seemed to be some kind of subtext developing here (why else would Tom Noonan have been cast as the creepy CEO?). The CEO and his wife seem to have two kids (twins?) which they disappear off-screen to see after the dinner scene.
One gets the impression that a lot of stuff was originally in the film that got edited out.
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Obviously she had connections. Her husband is powerful and wealthy and so is she. Getting a hold of those pills would have been easy. Think Michael Jackson being administered propofol...in the comfort of his home!
shareWow, do Drug dealers provide white cardoard boxes with typed out prescriptions on them now?
Only messing :)
It was a poor movie all the way through so this odd scene doesnt really make much difference.
There was definitely something odd about Spencer's Boss's wife...but i don't think she had the same fate as of Jillian's. Jillian started hanging out with her so may be thats why she met her for that issue coz she didn't know anybody else in NY.
shareShe said Jillian's laugh was authentic because Jillian was "unspoiled", so to speak. In comparison to the woman Jillian had been talking with prior to the boss' wife, who only cared about appearance and talked about starving herself.
Time of your life, huh, kid?
i always thought that the pills might be fake
she mightve alreaddy been "taken over" and was just a pretext to see what Jillian would do with the pills
I think they left a lot open to interpretation on purpose in hopes that they could make a sequel. Then they would have story to build on. I still don't believe it hurt the story any and it opened it up for interesting conversations like this one. :-)
shareShe said Jillian's laugh was authentic because Jillian was "unspoiled", so to speak. In comparison to the woman Jillian had been talking with prior to the boss' wife, who only cared about appearance and talked about starving herself