And then at the end she essentially kicks him out again by making him go to the hospital/clinic and not letting him return?
I didn't really understand this. You'd think that after going through all those efforts to save him she'd let him stay there as if he was "family"...
Explanations please...
-That is all-
He needed more help then she could give him. Where he was going he would have on the spot help if he relapsed again. You could always say that if he stayed with Audrey and the kids that was treatment enough -- but there would always be the risk something bad would come out of left field and he'd go on a binge again. He needs to be clean for a bit more then a couple months to genuinely say he is on the road to recovery. I think they all knew that.
And to honest, with the kids around, if I were in her shoes I wouldn't want him about until he proved he could stay drug free too -- even if Jerry did look like Benicio Del Toro.
The thing that really struck me as odd was, she takes him in, and he sits down to talk to her, and she says, "It should've been you." I mean, that's nice. She basically said, "I wish you were dead." It doesn't matter how she feels about his lifestyle, he never did anything to hurt her, he didn't spend time around the kids because he wasn't clean, nothing.
And then she gets mad about him getting Dori to put his head underwater (WTF?) and kicks him out because he knew where Harper was when she cut school (seriously, WTF?) and that's when he relapses.
It was cruel to say that to Jerry, but I see her "logic": the loving husband and father is killed, yet a man wasting his life being a junkie gets to live.
Those two events were happening too close together. In the first, Jerry did something better than Brian had. In the second, Jerry knew something about how Brian parented (that he took Harper out of school to see old movies) that Audrey did not know. It was just too painful having Jerry around.
You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi
"Explanations please..."
Somebody decided to make a movie that has a certain storyline with certain characters who have certain traits, problems, etc.
The movie certainly doesn't reflect reality.
Here's reality:
(Saturday morning at home, voices ringing throughout the house)
"Oh!!! Nobody got up and let the dog out!"
"Mom. I lost my backpack with my drivers license and credit cards in it."
"What? Again???"
"David! You're gonna hafta move your truck! The police have called again and want to know why I haven't brought your brother in yet. What ever possessed you to buy a 14-foot box truck, anyway???"
"It was all I could find that I could afford, Mom!"
And so on and on.
So, in the evening, I watch this movie and I'm in heaven. That's your explanation.