What happened to husband (spoiler)

I thought they said that just the bedroom had been damaged in the fire, but it was obviously the living room. I also didn't get why they disappeared when the husband fired the gun.
I have to say, that although I enjoyed the plot of the movie, I thought most of the acting was poor, with the exception of the lead male actor and his ex-fiance.

I'm thinking the husband wouldn't have died in the fire because his name was still in the phone book all those years later when Nora's name magically appeared. And I don't think she would have stayed in the house because she obviously left him--so the garden would have gone wild. You think? I'm just wondering where she disappeared to!

Who knows what happened to the husband whether he lived or not it doesnt say. I think the disappearing act was because Brian transported back to the future so the whole setting changed as opposed to Nora or both of them disappearing. The name change I guess was a way for the plot to show Nora didnt die in the fire so decided to show the name change for dramatic purposes I guess.

I'm guessing that Thomas wound up dying instead of Nora. The locket is the key, as it had been throughout the movie (note that Brian did not actually see Nora until he had found the locket). It represents 'true love' and it was dropped in the fireplace. The fire in the fireplace consumed the locket's magic between Thomas and Nora therefore breaking the bond between them. At the moment the bond was broken, Brian was transported back to present day (that's the point where Nora and Thomas disappeared) and we then see that Thomas' name had been wiped from the phone book and replaced by Nora Hargarve.

Nora insisted she could not leave Thomas, and I don't think she would have/could have had the locket not been dropped into the fireplace.

We also see the locket at the end, 50 years later, and it looked like it always had, with it's magical powers preserved. It did not look like it had been harmed by being in the fire. The fact that the locket was in fine shape to me says that it is ready to start anew. This is another reason why I believe Thomas was out of the picture and therefore dead.

An interesting side note is when Julie picked up the locket, it slipped out of her hands and into the fireplace. It was Brian's locket at that point, and she was not welcome to it's magic so she could not hold onto it. It was meant to be 'true love' between Nora and Brian, only 50 years later Nora wanted her grand daughter to find the 'true love' that she could not have with Brian all those years.



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Loves to read, I thought the older guy he met at the restaurant was the first husband. When Rob started to ask him about Nora, the other guy seemed to get really mad and said "It was an accident...accidents happen" or something like that. Was glad to see that Nora married the nice handyman after all. I wasn't sure that was him, but she called him "Frank" so I watced it from the beginning again, and she (as a young woman) said "hello, Frank" when he came by to help with the garden.