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If a popular US singer was drunk at 5 months...

posted 13 years ago by 2littletime
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Firstly had no idea what the movie was about before watching it, I liked it and Wow! GP can sing!

BUT;

If this happened NOW 'in real life' where a famous US singer/celeb fell down stairs and miscarried at 5 months and was found to be over the limit DRUNK and everyone knows it, is is even possible to resurrect a career?

I think they made the Kelly Cantor character hopeless - she couldn't survive the situation they put her in. She could have fallen down the stairs and miscarried at say 5 weeks - bad enough but could be argued she was unaware she was pregnant. A woman that gets drunk at 5 months in my eyes, besides being an alcoholic is a child abuser. There is no way that I would in anyway support that,

Actually the more I think about it, the more I am annoyed that there wasn't more discussion about the baby/Kelly's culpability in the situation.

For movie purposes they should have just made her a drunk that goes to rehab (common place in famous people circles). Why bring up this plot idea if it isn't going to be explored more?

What do others think?

[–] best_of_jess 13 years ago

I agree with every thing you said.

"His fist is big but my gun's bigger
He'll find out when I pull the trigger"

[–] Petri6 10 years ago

SPOILERS AHEAD

It was very throughly explored in the movie, it was the whole reason why her husband couldn't make love to her (even though he still loved her) and one of the key reasons why she decided to take her own life.