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LeAnn's relationship with her own family?

posted 10 years ago by wmm575
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I found this movie made up almost entirely of the 'road trip' of Tom and LeAnn. Although she insisted on his coming back to her parent's home in CA; I'm not sure what that was supposed to add. Her father, quite ill, informs LaAnn that he is worse than she knew, her mother cold and icy.Were I Jack Lemmon, I would have gotten the keck out of there...was there a meaning to this that someone might have gleaned as I did not?
In the same vein, I expected that after 'Tom' made this cross country trip, capriciously, to the the old girlfriend whom he nearly married 50 years early, a trip bought about her writing to him, and after her blatantly offering her feelings for him, he just decides to leave after a brief visit and a couple of scenes later is getting on a bus, seen off by LeAnn. Did anyone else get the strong feeling that this was going to be a new and independent life with Tom and Veronica?

[–] Florida2 10 years ago

No, because he no doubt felt all the stress of LeAnn's home and definitely after overhearing her and "Mother" argue (and her Mother's icy stare when they met in the hallway) that's when he decided it was time to say goodbye...

It was the right decision and if I were him I'd have made it clear that he'd be leaving on the first bus back east, or at the least live at a hotel, because definitely he was a fifth wheel there, fancy mansion or no...

Sure, it would have been nice for him to get together with his old female friend, but he was a new widower and probably wasn't ready to start a new life with another woman, so as you said the film was more a road film than anything else, but that was fine by me...