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13 year old with a passport?


So tell me how a 13 year old, without his mothers knowledge, gets a passport to go to Paris when he runs away?

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He had Pappass there to play daddy but that shouldn't have worked given Pappass' behavior. Honestly, it was a poorly conceived script and poorly executed.

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It was a fairy tale. Yes, a 13 year old child could not survive alone like that anyway. It was not meant to be factual.

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I actually think a 13 year old could survive on his own.

So, that post was a bet... post in some obscure thread for anything related to Duchovny and Pippy will find it. I lost the bet. I guess I underestimated obsession. So, tell me Pip, are you following my posts around or do you just obsess over all the Duchovny oriented forums?

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Don't flatter yourself Wookie. I look at all the David related sites. If i wanted to follow what you say i would still be posting at the OS. And what about your obsessed fans in GA land? They do the same exact thing. Oh but wait, only DD fans are nuts for doing that

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I first saw this film today (Jan. 20, 2008) and I wondered about that myself. How did this kid happen to have a passport which could only have been obtained a significant time before the most recent events at the end of the story?

If I like a story, I'll fill in the blanks to myself. Maybe Tom had had occasion to travel outside the US with his mother (or his father) before the flashback story that we see begins. Perhaps that's why the very young Tom had a passport.

At any rate, I enjoyed this movie. I saw a lot of myself in the younger Tom and in the older Tom. I was also impressed with Duchovny's original screenplay and direction. David Duchovney has a great deal of talent. That has always been apparent. I look forward to future projects from him.

John Martin, 46, Fort Worth, Texas

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Has it occurred to anyone that his Canadian relatives may have organized his passport to you know, go to Canada with them?

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They do it all the time.

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I have got my first passport at the age of six. My kids have, due to administrative changes, got it at about ten or twelve (not all at the same age). So why would it be strange for someone at 13 to have it?

We haven't seen that Pappas helped Tom get the passport, only buy a ticket, so we can assume that Tom had it already (with his mother's - maybe even father's knowledge, when she was - or they were still alive).

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yeah... I thought that was unrealalistic.

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I have had a passport since 1985 when I was 11 years old.
There are numerous reasons to having your own passport - one of them being travelling by yourself for school, camp abroad, etc.

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I caught about two-thirds of it. At first I was really interested/entertained. I found it funny and endearing.

But after a while it started to become "edgy" just for the sake of it. It appeared to be trying too hard to be a "harder" movie. I simply could not believe/accept some of the things taking place.

1. A 13 year old taking it upon himself to end his mother's life like that.
2. The whole running away thing like you mention. Seemed impossible (the way they portrayed it).

I really liked it at first, but it lost me. I thought Anton Yelchin was really good at first, but then his voice/tone started to annoy me. Does he always sound like Cripsen Glover with those pauses?

There was some really akward/bad action at times too.

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David said right up front that HoD was an urban "fairytale".

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In 1973... it was far easier to travel abroad that it is today. Driver's licenses were only JUST starting to have pictures on them. Getting a passport back then was even easier.

The original question was written by someone who clearly was born in the Reagan era of Big Brother.

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don't make political comments when you don't know what your talking about. big brother? reagan? dude, get lost with that garbage, keep the comments about the movie..............

as for the passport to go to france, he could have gotten one years ago when his father was still alive. passports are good for many years. plus, i consider this part a flaw in the film. tommy did not need to go to france to run away. but with the woman at the meat shop being french and the scenes in his french class, duchovny seemed to force france into this film. boston or philly would have worked just fine.



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I agree, even in the 70's you need more than cash and a stranger's consent to travel overseas (a stranger argued for me and my girl to get in to watch Animal House many years ago). They should have snuck Tommy away on a boat, would have been more plausible. Aside from that, I can relate to the boy running away from the US in the face of military school in the VietNam era, and so on. Better if he didn't have to steal money from an old lady, but you gotta do what you gotta do...

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