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What was Mary Ann a.k.a. Matty getting out of this?


1) Why did she and the Kathleen Turner character trade identities?
2) What was she getting out of being apart of the scheme?
- Did she do it simply thinking she would get a cut of the money for letting "Matty" use her identity?

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Kathleen Turner may have "borrowed" her friend's identity in return for a payoff - the friend not realizing (or not protecting against) the liklihood that Kathleen would then kill her. More likely is that Kathleen Turner stole her friend's identity, the friend found out about it and demanded payoffs to keep quiet, and again the friend was not sufficiently cautious about the liklihood that Kathleen Turner would kill her.

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The real 'Maddie' was the one who got blown up at the end of the movie.

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Yes it was...

Mary Ann got away.

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Kathleen Turner's character is Mary Ann...

Kim Zimmer's character is Maddie...

Kim Zimmer's character got blown up in the boat house...

Kathleen Turner's character lived happily ever after.

Are we done now?

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KobiyashiMauru, you got that last bit from "Die Hard," right?

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springwater, I don't think Mary Ann knew anything, she was an innocent victim. She and Matty (KT) had been friends for years and she was just paying a visit on an old friend. I think Matty probably had her do it as a game or something. Probably "helping" her friend disguise she was cheating on her husband. ("Hey, remember when we were kids? Let's do that when you come to visit me! I'm cheating on my husband so people will think he's having an affair with you! Won't that be fun?")

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It's not necessarily the truth but Hurt's character says out loud what he thinks happened.
That she used the other women's identity without her knowing. Then she was busted but promised that she would give a big part of the money to her.
"Now she would have to split the money in 3 parts. And she figured a way to kill the 2 of them in 1 shot".

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Rudykawa, I'll bet that's right. My cable's out till Monday so I'm trying to catch up on some favorites that I havent' seen for a while. Glad to say DVD player working. Anyway, my copy (tape) was old, and when I went to play it, wouldn't go past couple of minutes. I bought the DVD today and going to watch it in a few minutes. I do remember that part now. Thanks!

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When Ned met the friend, Mattie came out and handed an envelope to the friend. She was obviously giving her money. So I'm not sure if the friend knew why Mattie was using her identify or not, but she did know about it and was being paid allowing it.

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