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The major flaw in this film...

posted 12 years ago by brentnevers
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I love this movie. Brittany Murphy is an angel and the cast is wonderful. I love everything about this film, Dakota is perfect and believeable....she nails the little kid trying to act too much of an adult.

The flaw is in the screenplay. It would have been prefectly acceptable for Molly to grow up and get her redemption---and yet recover her millions of stolen dollars at the end.

This sort of happened to her in Little Black Book, when she fails at love...and gets fired---yet at the very end gets her dream job.

Listen, I am a realist, I would think it phoney to have them add to the script that she won the Powerball lottery...but this is different. The reason she was spoiled and irresponsible in the beginning of the film was that she inhereted millions. Is it too much to ask the screenwriters to give it back to her after she grows up and becomes responsible???

I think not!

POSTSCRIPT: I am overwhelmed with sadness when I watch any Brittany Murphy movie and am reminded that this ANGEL was taken from us way too soon....she is lovely and her performances never fail to move me. There was more to her than a pretty face. She was a real girl, grounded in reality and this come through in all of her movies. I miss her....

[–] LibertyCrusader 10 years ago

Perhaps because it would have ruined the entire message? You know, that she was having to live in the real world now? In the real world when someone working for incredibly rich families runs off with hundreds of millions of dollars that wasn't insured to a country in South America, the spoiled and irresponsible adult children, who are forced to now grow up, don't magically get it all back the moment they get a job and start paying their own rent. Even if the criminal is caught, what the lawyer in the movie said is pretty much true...it would be many years before they would see any money and most of it would probably be gone for good.

Yes, Brittany Murphy's death was tragic, but I think you may be getting your emotions about that mixed up in the fictional characters from this movie.

[–] peachesNcream97 8 years ago

Agreed. Getting all her money back would have ruined the message of the movie

[–] Drusilla (563) 6 years ago

Yes, Brittany Murphy's death was tragic, but I think you may be getting your emotions about that mixed up in the fictional characters from this movie.

Does this mean you entwine all your movie critiques in with your personal life? Or perhaps you are an armchair psychiatrist who projects faults onto others that you can't face within yourself?

[–] FilmStar (408) 3 years ago

I know what you mean. I also don't understand how people knew about Bob's history of stealing from 10 clients and they didn't think to arrest him? That after she lost all that money, there was no way she could be helped other than to get a job whereas the money was stolen from her? They should have had it where she was an overspender and lost her money that way.