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Plot Holes (spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by bhoffer66
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This is really an enjoyable movie...some twists which develop nicely, good music, good acting. Obviously a 'chick-flick' for TV, and after watching it several times on DVD, I caught a few things.
1. The NTSB interrogator's questions in Kathryn's house were confusing. He asked Kathryn (Chistine Lahti) if her husband had had a drink the day he left, or if she packed his bag, or his flightbag. But the crash flight took place days later, as it left London Heathrow. His questions led me to believe that I had gotten the geography mixed up somewhere. What bearing could they have on the crash? And for a short while, I wasn't sure this home was in the States.
2. OK...this secret double-marriage thing had been going on for 5 years. But doing his post-mortem laundry, Kathryn finds enough clues in Jack's pants pockets to fill a short novel.....Bergdorf receipts, folded pages of poetry, laundry tickets with phone numbers, etc. He sure got sloppy before this last trip. And in 5 years, she only tried to call him once at the overseas crew quarters (when Maddie won the music award)?
3. On the beach walk, Jack (John Heard) says that gray days depress him...make him feel like he has no "center". Guess that explains why he sets up housekeeping in a dingy, foggy, London flat, where the sun shines maybe 30 days a year.
4. Kathryn, attempting to phone Muire,(which she pronounces 'Mew-eer') gets her friend instead, who tells her it's pronounced 'Mur-a'. Her friend then asks her "Are you a friend of hers?" Kathryn replies 'Yes'. Yeah, sure...a friend who can't even pronounce her name.
5. In the last scenes, Kathryn and daughter make a pilgrimage to Minnesota to meet Maddie's grandmother. Now, this is the mother of the guy who ripped both their lives in a thousand pieces and betrayed them from here to sundown. But in a chick-flick, that doesn't matter. And only men do bad stuff. Gotta meet Grandma....after all, she's family.

[–] wingshock 10 years ago

I totally agree w/ your observations except for the #5. There was a reason that Jack told his own wife and child that his mother was dead. It makes no logical sense because years ago, when he first met Kathryn, what reason would he have had? Obviously he told Muire and his younger daughter that was alive and living in the USA. I think this is why Kathryn wanted to go visit the woman... to discover what OTHER deep secrets Jack has been keeping, and why.

I will add to your list:
#6.. there's no way that the authorities would have let a civilian walk around the crash debris and to let her stand nearby where a helicopter was lowering part of the aircraft!

#7.. the boat captain's answer is nonsensical. No, she can't go out to the crash site, it's "off limits." Well, you CAN go visit the crash site if you're family, but only if you make arrangements at the hotel. Then just because she's the "pilot's wife" he says OK? Then they get out to the site and there's no indication whatsoever that the location is "off limits" to anything.