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Little girls having phones


The one thing that always bothered me is how they made it seem like Jude Law was dating other women by having his cell phone get calls from "Sophie" and "Olivia" or whatever his daughters names were and Cameron seeing them. But why would he be getting calls that the caller ID says their names? They're like 4 and 7 ish years old. And he's very protective and they live in London. There's no way they have cell phones. They'd be calling from the home phone which would just say home or their last name. But not their names. So they kind of lost the believability for the sake of a plot line.

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well (and this might be a bit of a stretch),

The grandmother of the children is a ball-busting editor of a big publishing company. I could see that type of character making sure the children have cell phones AND in their own name.













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While I found it a bit odd myself, I have found an explanation that, while stretching it a bit, I found at least semi-reasonable. Perhaps he figured with a job like his that he's be away from home enough and having to leave them with grandparents enough, that he should give them phones so they can contact him whenever they needed to?

Like I said, I only found it semi-reasonable and thought it was a bit of a stretch, it was the only explanation I though was even a little bit reasonable.

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Four years old? Are you ever around children? The girls are around at least 8 for Sophie and about 6 for O!ivia, whom I adore. I love the line when she says to Amanda, "You look like my Barbie!". That's high praise for a woman. I never understand why everyone gets so bent out of shape if this GS ate not identical within the takes. Folks, this is NOT reality television. It is a make believe movie. For one thing you KNOW it has to be a man going on about the inaccuracies Amanda is always stating about her time there or left there. Have people EVER heard the word exaggeration? Women often exaggerate for effect and Amanda does this a lot. Next, I'm SO tired of folks going on about the chauffer stating he can't get the car " up the lane". Its SO blatently obvious I can't believe folks don't get it. People, get out in the world more. The man, the chauffer is LAZY. Its SO obvious, just look at his face when he says things like that. Its a completely sly look with a slight look of guilt.

Plus, why do people always assume the character can't EVER "do anything, make a movement, finish a quick action", anything, when the camera moves off of them for a few moments? Bottom line is folks, this ISN'T reality, don't expect reality. If you want reality turn on Housewives of New Jersey although this movie The Holiday is most likely 10 times more "realistic" than a show like that.

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All of you getting your undies in a wad DO realize these aren't real people don't you? No one has a CLUE who bought the cell phones. The ONLY thing anyone knows about the mother of Graham and Iris is that she's an editor. Period, stop, new paragraph. And.....if you do want to play this "pretend this is reality" game, she can't be THAT pushy and bossy, etc considering the mess Iris is in. The imaginary existence of this woman plays NO role in this fantasy some of you are creating.

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I always just assumed he had one of those cell phones where you can edit the name to the phone number you wanted, so he edited whatever number they were calling from, even from a landline, to show "Olivia" so when she called, he'd know quickly by looking at the name it was his girls. Never thought his daughters had cell phones.

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Nobody has land lines anymore, unless they live in the sticks with no cell service.

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This was made in 2006, though. Or, release in '06, anyway. Cell phones were common, but not ubiquitous. The other thing about '06 was, though, that these phones might have been just phones. They might have been flip-phones with no internet access. If the girls were allowed to have them once a day to call Law's character, that seems more reasonable.

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Yes, I thought about that. But in 2006, I hadn’t had a landline in over 2 years and I lived in a rural state. My friends in the city hadn’t had one for longer than that.

It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me that someone in that class, and a widower, would provide his young daughters with their own phones so they could feel secure about being connected to their only living parent. The grandparents would supervise use of the phones to make calls at bedtime and when the girls got up in the mornings.

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