He certainly grew up in a NICE house for someone whose mother was
..a waitress, and worked Christmas day to make more money.
Did I miss something? How could this have been his childhood home?
It wasn't.He made it up.
shareI thought that it was an old family home.
But that could be right that it was a friends house or something but then again, didn't he go a little overboard with the tree hugging and house goggling if it wasn't really his?
He couldn't have made it up. His name was carved into the tree that he hugged in the yard.
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his dad lived with him at first but then left, so he may have bought the house
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If he had carved 'Drew' when he was younger, then wouldnt it be higher in the tree? I dont' know if this is listed as a goof, sorry if it is, but you'd think the tree would've grown at least a bit in, what was it, ten or twenty years?
Also, the family he lived with, for the girl to have known that park when she was 9 wouldve meant they lived in the same town... Why didnt they know each other if they lived in the same town when she was nine, and when he was a kid.
I'm pretty sure when he was confessing to Christina Applegate, he said that he never lived there. It's been a while since I've seen this, but I'm pretty sure this discussion took place.
shareHe lived there.
The Doc said to go to his childhood home and burn a list of grievances from his childhood. He didn't just pick a house at random and pretend to have issues from his childhood. All of that was real. It was only after that when he met the family that he started to make stuff up.
I imagine that since at one time his mom and dad lived there, after his dad was gone she struggled to keep making the payments so they wouldn't lose it.
ON THE FLIP SIDE.....
Ever notice in sitcoms how families are always poor but have freakishly nice homes? Roseanne, Still Standing, Reba and Grace Under Fire amongst many others.
BUT...millionaires on TV shows seem to live in mansions not much nicer than the above mentioned homes. Look at Charlie's house on Two and a Half Men! Or how about the Huxtible house on the Cosby show??? A Doctor AND a Lawyer could ge a house a little nicer than Roseanne?
I know these are television shows and not movies, but the same principles should apply. This has always bugged me. It makes me feel that those pompous Hollywood types don't really know the difference between the lower and middle class.
BUT...millionaires on TV shows seem to live in mansions not much nicer than the above mentioned homes. Look at Charlie's house on Two and a Half Men! Or how about the Huxtible house on the Cosby show??? A Doctor AND a Lawyer could ge a house a little nicer than Roseanne?
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From an inside perspective, the Cosby house doesn't look all that hot but you must realize that the house is supposed to be a Brooklyn Heights Brownstone. They're all old row houses but they were (and still are) very fashionable rich yuppie homes, that in the market of the eighties were worth upwards of a million dollars. The market for those homes went way beyond the rate of inflation of the twenty five years prior to it. In the early sixties, Brooklyn brownstones had evolvded, from their original late 19th early 20th century construction as three story homes for the well to do, to multi-family residences, most with six or seven separate apartments. However, in the seventies, people began buying them up rather cheaply and restoring them to their original grandure. What made them even more popular with the well to do was the location being in great commuting proximity to Manhattan. With the price of real estate in Manhattan, the brownstone neighborhoods of the area (Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, etc., were a bargain for the nostalgic twelve foot celings in ten or more huge rooms with a small back yard, as opposed to the cost of a four room apartment in Manhattan. While not the quintessential mansion, in certain neighborhoods of New York City and many other big cities, such as was represented by the Cosby Show, these homes are quite valuable.
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"If he had carved 'Drew' when he was younger, then wouldnt it be higher in the tree?"
Trees don't grow from the bottom. So if you carve something, it'll stay in the same spot.
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His mom or dad could have inherited the house. Also, how much a home actually costs depends on what area it is in. In less crowded, economically depressed areas, mansions go for a lot less than an ordinary three bedroom home in a more popular area.
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stop with all the speculations, will ya? There is no indications
whatsoever on your so called "facts".. The movie was made and proceeded
without a complete script, so that means mostly of it was improvised..
And what happens when people improvise without scripts? They leave
behind plotholes and mistakes such as this one.. big deal seriously,
its not like the movie was awarded with "movie of the century" or
something like that.. its just a comedy with perhaps some flaws..
Well, cutting the tree's like that often kills them. A dead tree can't grow.
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If something is carved in a tree, the trunk will grow in girth which is why the carving will get broader, but the height of the carving won't change. Trees grow from the top up, not the bottom.
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If he had carved 'Drew' when he was younger, then wouldnt it be higher in the tree? I dont' know if this is listed as a goof, sorry if it is, but you'd think the tree would've grown at least a bit in, what was it, ten or twenty years?
Also, the family he lived with, for the girl to have known that park when she was 9 wouldve meant they lived in the same town... Why didnt they know each other if they lived in the same town when she was nine, and when he was a kid.
No, his name would remain exactly where he carved it! Trees grow from their tops, not their bases. The only thing that would possibly happen,is that gradually the bark would fill in the cut as growth rings expanded outward.
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