Great movie, but what exactly what was the "family secret"?.....

I was also confused. This wasn't written well. The ONLY thing I can figure out that the father had told Molly to leave him in the woods to be lost or give time Molly and her father the chance to get their story straight. Which might explain that rather jaw dropping scene when she was on Ryder's shoulders when they were alone at the river.

I'm wondering whether Molly's dad was going to go after Ryder later or send someone to go after him. The reason for showing Ryder the gun and how to use it. Maybe an argument for "self defense" later.

However I suspect the secret was there was a history of sexual abuse, at least that was the implication. but that still doesn't explain why Molly's dad pushed her on Ryder.

As far as the girl bleeding, that can actually happen with activities such as horse riding or gymnastics. It's rare but it happens.

The way I understood it was, Cindy and Keith had an incestual relationship as children and Cindy instigated it during games of chicken down by the river. Keith was pushing Molly on Ryder as a reminder? or as revenge for the Grandma believing he instigated their relationship or because she abandoned him in Nebraska. I'm not sure and this might be reaching because I thought he was creepy but I also think they were implicating that Keith is molesting Molly and that is why she was rubbing herself sexually against Ryder when on his shoulders and presumbaly that is what happened in the beginning but it caused some bleeding.

Just like one person in this thread, after Keith showed him his gun..I actually kept looking at the background when they were in the river waiting for Keith to show up and shoot dead Ryder and since he can manipulate his daughter to say or do anything, he would claim Ryder was going to or was trying to rape her....but obviously, after it didn't happen and when he went home and they were talking whilst eating danish cookies, We learnt that Cindy did the same thing to Keith when they were younger and maybe along the way, Keith liked it but his parents found out and Cindy blamed Keith for instigating it..I doubt Ryder is Keith's 'son' because this was a 'childhood game' and cindy looks to be in her late 30's early 40 and Ryder is 17 so I doubt it went past when she was 16

So why did he let his daughter do the same to Ryder?..to teach his sister a lesson for getting him caught up in this and than running off to UCLA forcing him to deal with how his "extended" family treated him...I think the only flaw in the story was that as her father, he "pimped" out his daughter but also, there was a good Chance he knew Ryder was gay and he was not worried about him doing anything to his daughter thus why he asked him about why he left "Julie" (his girlfriend) during the Taco "dinner" ..Looks like Ryder's grandma told them stories about cindy and ryder and even though she did not figure it out herself, Keith did, realizing Ryder was gay (his attire didn't help either lol)...i think he invited ryder to dinner to make him feel awkward like he did when he was younger as his sister threw herself at him (not sexually though)...but yeah the story could have gone 3 or 4 other directions, they choose the safe option...I don't think Keith was 'abusing' his daughters but he realised his 2nd eldest daughter, Molly was showing signs of what Cindy was when she was her age (abby was older as its implied when ryder thinks molly is the eldest and the father says that its time for Abby to buy new clothes implying she was the eldest but Molly was the one who matured earlier probably by a year)..the story is weak in the sense that to get his revenge, keith didn't even bother to realise that he might actually put his own daughter, Molly on the same road as his own sister Cindy....and a possibility that she might try to "chicken fight" with other boys in the area including those twin brothers (who could take it a bit farther).......I think when Keith (during the family gathering in the beginning) when Molly came running and crying (which he obviously did not plan) he mentioned after they take her inside to Cindy was "the last thing we need is you playing doctor" sounded a bit odd to me..which made me double think about cindy taking the 'chicken dance' a bit too far when she was younger...

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I feel like there's probably something to the fact that one minute Keith is screaming for Ryder to stay away from his daughter, and the next he's deliberately trying to put them in rooms and situations together.

Honestly I was most confused about Keith's wife, she was acting like she knew what was going on when Keith was acting creepy to Ryder, does that mean she knows and she's okay with it? Maybe the overtalking was a way of covering up things.