I wish that IMDB would leave message boards topics active much longer, because I am sure this topic has been discussed extensively by the first wave of people that saw this movie.
Anyway, I still ask: why did the Glasses, who had plenty of space, at first put Ruby and Rhett in the same room? With what they were planning, why disurb the kids with this odd arrangement, only to correct it just before the social worker came in?
They weren't planning to put them in seperate rooms until the lawyer called them and told them that a social worker was coming to check out the house.
And to answer your first question, I don't IMDB had message boards back then when this movie first came out.
Yes...I realize that they only put them into separate rooms once they knew the social worker was coming.
But why did they put them in the same room at all? The house was big...you figure there was no room problem and there had to be some other reason (control? keep the kids incomfortable?) they did it.
Control was the reason I guess. They obviously didn't want the kids sneaking around the house and listening to their conversations. So they put the kids in one room to have more room for themselves.
shareI just think it was an unthought reason, the glasses didn't think that the kids were going to complain but when they did they had it worked out
shareThey put them in the same room to make them go crazy (or at least one of them)
shareI think they did this to show exactly how weird this couple ws. The fact that there was no reason to be so nasty to the kids, yet they were anyway. I think is supposed to show how heartless they were.
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Those kids were just pawns. He was using them so he could get his hands on their inheritance and pay off the people he owed to.
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It's been a while since this question was posted, so I'm not sure if anyone is still interested.
Anyway, I do believe that the reason the Glasses put the two children in the same room, and later bought the Nintendo set for Rhett, was so that Ruby would prefer to spend more time outside the room. So that the Glasses can keep an eye on her while she's doing her homework in the lounge etc. If they had given her a room to herself she would probably have locked herself in all the time, as teenagers are wont to do and they would have no idea what she was up to.
Very interesting point, hybrid. They saw that Ruby was the one most likely to smell a rat.
shareThat sounds like the most plausible explanation. I'm with hybridoma.
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Uh...after a certain age it's frowned upon. And because they are not the couple's natural children, and the Glasses definitely had enough space, it's VERY frowned upon in the Social Services. Plus, there was a pretty big age difference between the kids, Ruby being 17 and Rhett only 11.
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I agree with you on most of those points, like men hugging and that, but when you are in social services, it's different.
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I thought it was to show how poorly thought out the arrangement was. Plus if they had had 2 rooms set up just as the parents died it would look a bit fishy.
Their plot to get the cash had nothing to do with wanting to take good care of the kids.
I always thot it was because they were in money trouble and too poor to get Ruby a good room. Then when they knew the social worker was coming, they threw something together. But I was only like 10 wen it came out so I didn't notice anything too creepy about it.
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I agree with you. Their whole plot was to get the money and they could care less if the kids were comfortable.
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