What happens to Leslie?

I think this is a narrative inconsistency in a good, but flawed, movie that does have a few plot holes, such as this. Perhaps Parker helped her out and that's not expressed in the movie, or she lived off her mother. The ending is very neat. Too neat, perhaps. But I really like this movie too.

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I don't know why I'm bothering to explain this, since the movie is so badly plotted, and full of holes, I don't think these two quibbles even rank in the Top 20.

But for the sake of argument, how do you know "1 Year Later" doesn't mean one year after Parker last saw Leslie?

In the novel, Leslie is a very successful real estate agent, but that isn't getting her what she wants--she wants enough money to just escape her life (and her nagging mother and sister) completely, start over from scratch.

I think a better question to ask about the ending of the movie would be "Now what?" She's got all this money, but she's clearly not leaving her mom (there was no reason to make the mother a lovable character), and how does she explain all the money she's got now? In the novel, she was just going to pick up and leave the country once she got her share. But in this version of the story, she's got too many commitments, and no way to explain her sudden prosperity, since she's a flop as a real estate agent.

I think they wanted to make Leslie very sympathetic--part of the problem of hiring Jennifer Lopez at this stage of her career--she hasn't played a bad girl in a LONG time), but they had to explain why she would participate in a crime, so they say she's desperate, she's going to lose her car, they won't let her get any good clients at the agency, etc.

But that doesn't justify spit. She lives in a nice house, she's not going hungry, and c'mon--a woman like that could find a man in all of two seconds. The Leslie in the book is attractive, but she's no J-Lo. She got married, and it didn't work out, and she's kind of done with men (though she likes Parker--doesn't embarrass herself the way the movie version does, though, and doesn't meet Claire, and there's no Fish Camp.)

A bad movie is a bad movie is a bad movie. You either enjoy it on its own level, or you make fun of it, but you don't try to make sense of it. It is what it is.

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Why didn't he offer her some of the money he stole from the check guy to hold her over?????? Please help!!!!!

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1 I think we have to assume when Parker says he is going to lie low, this time he needs to be away from Leslie and he's found some place that'll do the job for him and from there Claire will pick him up.

2. In the car he tells Leslie, she'll get 2 earlier instalments of $200000 to "tide her over" (it is implied) until the big share came through.🐭

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