Where the bleep are Marty's parents?

We don't need to see her parents. And their relationship isn't creepy, it's one of the strengths of this movie that Willie and Marty's relationship never goes into bad taste.

It must be a bunch of Americans having this discussion, because we are about the only ones who are so uptight over male-female relationships, which is exactly why the Leon-Mathilda relationship in The Professional had to be toned down for the American release of that movie. The Euro version of that movie, by the way, leaves no question that their relationship is romantic.

The Willie-Marty relationship is by far the best part of the movie.

Marty makes it clear at the rink that it would never get into inappropriate territory or he would "end up in the penitentiary."

It is hilarious that the one brief moment where it looked like it could be headed inappropriately is when she fell into his arms at the rink. Moe's face upon seeing it is classic.

Do the posters saying so know for a fact that no 13 year old girl like Marty exists? Obviously, she is a very unique and rare bird, but I don't find her character altogether unbelievable. She is just extremely smart and has read a little Shakespeare. Her emotional maturity seems about right.

The one scene where he leans out his window to talk to her, she is putting her sled under the porch, and he's nice enough to say some words to try and make her feel better. Great scene, by the way, with perhaps Portman's best acting of the movie. Anyway, it isn't like she's down there sunbathing in a bikini. There is nothing inappropriate about it.

Would it really have made the film better if Marty had had so-called helicopter parents? Would it have the movie more interesting to have Marty's dad come out of the house and say, "Now, Marty, get back in here. What are you doing talking to that older guy?" We don't really need that kind of moral reassurance from movies, do we? There has to be some flexibility to allow for the narrative to move forward.

Her parents are in the house. I don't think their relationship was at all 'creepy'. That's in the poster's mind. (oh my!)

I've had relationships like that when I was very young. It's natural. The elder male is being kind, and perhaps flattered, to converse with the besmitten.

Get your mind out of the gutter.

I have never felt that there was anything creepy about the friendship at all. Not once did either of them ever entertain any notion of *doing* anything. The closest either/both of them said was "wait five years" (Marty) and "wait ten years" (Will--and he didn't even say that to HER, which really would have changed things). They were never even indoors together or in any sort of private setting where anything creepy can be taken from it.

Feelings are feelings and cannot necessarily be helped--things like this do happen but these individuals did nothing inappropriate or wrong.

I think you might be kind of a sicko, actually. Your post says more about how YOUR mind works than it does about anything that happened in the movie. ;)



"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?"

I found nothing "creepy" about Willie and Marty's friendship. I actually found their scenes the best scenes in the movie, particularly the scene at the ice rink where Willie states he doesn't want to be a "Poo"

I think most guys have had a Marty in their life and, if you haven't, your loss.