The kid steals a car, knows how to drive it with no trouble, somehow knows how to get to the airport, gets on a plane, (buys a ticket, how?) Gets to Vegas, gets in a cab, (pays for it how?), and gets to the wrestling match at the Hilton in what seems like a total of 30 minutes in real time?
shareAs a partial answer to some of the problems, the kid did have a rich grandfather and might possibly have had a lot of money in his wallet. If he did have money, he could have bought an airplane ticket and a cab ride.
I think just a few hundred dollars would have been enough, so I can imagine he could have been given a few hundred dollars for Christmas or his birthday and not had a chance to spend it at his military school.
I think that it is kind of amusing that David Mendenhall also portrayed a kid who made a journey to be at a sporting event and support the new father figure in his life in They still Call Me Bruce, another 1987 movie.
Sounds like I have something to watch tomorrow
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The movie showed him digging up stuff in his mother’s room to find the dad’s letters. So he may have found $$$
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