Grandchilds parents
Where are the grandchilds parents?
shareKevin's daughter has died...then her grand mother dies..in the preview it shows her other Grandmother and her extended family...and shows the childs father is a drug addict..don't know yet if the daughter was married to him.
shareMaking the black guy a junkie was a dumb move IMO. Both the parents should've died in a car crash and they should've called it a day there. Making the white family rich and the black family middle class or poor with drug problems seems lame and played out.
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I'm wondering if going with the played-out druggie absentee parent won't kill the sincerity of this movie. I don't think both parents should have died together because that wouldn't support the side of the story that this little girl did not know the paternal side of her family. But there are better plausible reasons for the father's absence. In watching the preview and really enjoying it, I was pretty convinced the father would be explained away as maybe not having known about her. But then they went that way. Disappointing.
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Well maybe you should all just write your own movie. Because that's not what this movie is about.
This movie is about loss, grief, anger, maternal denial, family bonds, and drug addiction.
The central conflict of the movie is that the father has a serious drug problem and has not tried to beat it. It's the reason that Costner and his wife wound up with the child. Eloise is their daughter's child.
If the father and mother had died, then the film would have been about race and race alone. But that wasn't what this film was about. Drug addiction was a major facet of this particular story, like it or not.
I read that it was based on true events. If that is the case, changing certain details would make it a fairy tale, no? I'm just sayin'....
shareYup. It was based on a true story. They kept it real, so no one should be complaining about the details.
shareIf I am correct, the woman who plays the black grandmother was born in 1970... isn't that a bit too young, or are they ageing her for the part. Meanwhile Costner is nearly 60.
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From what I read, Costner's character has a drinking problem himself, so they're not painting him as a flawless guy by any stretch of the imagination.
"This guy just telephoned a psycho-killer to come down and psycho-kill us!"
It works if she had her son when she was 15, and he had the daughter at age 22 or 23.
Or you could assume she is about 47 (aging her by only 3 years).
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Actually, BOTH grandparents have money, BOTH earned it. The black grandmother has a lot of money from real estate sales and owning several businesses.
Her brother is a well-respected attorney who is A BLACK RACIST pig.
The fact is that the black grandma is RAISING her NEPHEWs and helping out the rest of her TYPICAL black DEADBEAT family members. Yes, I said "TYPICAL" as we all know.
Why are so many black people not STRIVING to do better? Because the DEMOCRAT PARTY EFFED THEM OVER, MADE them 'victims' by GIVING THEM LIFELONG WELFARE, where so many of their young women are living on welfare which goes up as they have more children, and they don't bother to marry the fathers. Well, truth be told, young black men have often been raised by single young mothers or their own grandmothers and do not have the UNDERSTANDING that AS A FATHER they are to supposed to be in a marriage union with a WOMAN who is the mother of ALL their children, they are not just the 'baby daddy'.
Tell me I'm wrong, call me a racist, but WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH.
If you don't want to end up being lifelong third-worlders living off the sweat of the WORKERS (which includes many, but not all, black americans), get off your a$$es and GET A JOB. LEARN SOMETHING USEFUL, if you can't go to college, go the public library. That's how I started out. Studying at the public library.
Life is a journey not a destination. Fear nothing.
Maybe if the repugnantcans wouldn't be taking good middle class jobs and shipping them off to third world contries there'd be jobs for more people. Isn't that one of the GOTP talking points? The jobs that have pulled this country from the brink of depression are all shlt jobs? We've given the "job creators" the country, but they refuse to invest in America. It's all about their bottom line, and and enough is never enough. Having almost all the wealthin this country isn't enough, they want it all. And they've got the slack jawed base that doesn't know their a§§ from a hole in the ground voting for them.
shareThe black family wasn't poor. Rowena owned six businesses and three houses. Problem was, no one else in the extended family (most of whom lived in the same house) was a lack of work (except maybe what they did for Rowena) and living on their own.
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