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Duane didn't deserve to lose his kids

posted 15 years ago by xdayton
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Believe me, I have no patience for drunks when it comes to endangering the lives of others. But seriously, nothing he did was so bad that he deserved to lose his children. Haven't these people ever heard of supervised visitation?

Yes, he should not be allowed to drive with them but a simple license revocation would solve that. The baseball bat thing was much ado about very little, and he got fired for trying to calm a potentially bad situation by handing the customer some change.

Maybe the filmmakers just didn't want to go the extra distance by having Duane do something really unlikeable, but I think they went too far in the opposite direction, by making him seem more sad and pathetic than anything else. Obviously the girls still loved him, and the damage that would be done by having him out of their lives was in no way merited by anything he did.

Would have been a more credible movie if he'd actually gotten into an accident with the girl in the car, or something that would have made you believe he really did bring this punishment on himself.

[–] gceez44 15 years ago

As an attorney in family law? Being arrested twice the legal limit, with your young daughter asleep in the back seat, way past your agreed-upon, court sanctioned return agreement?, then, being exposed in the hearing as having threatened your wife's boyfriend and your wife with a baseball bat?

Sorry, that's plenty to get visitation rights taken away, even from a sympathetic judge to father's rights in family court - and they're, generally speaking, aren't too many of those. No, this guy would be gone, no doubt.

Great picture. Very moving and it made me laugh out loud - and I've seen it all.

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[–] donpoyoyo 15 years ago

thanks for the spoiler alert you jackass