She only knows that Jericho makes her feel some part of what she has been missing since losing her father Bill. Jericho has the same effect on the mother who can not completely tear herself away from him.
shareI thought the same. She is completely cool with a burly old American dude with a festering head wound randomly approaching her in the yard. "Let's play!" Stranger danger, anyone?
And while we are on the subject...the genius mom was comfortable enough to leave him in her basement while she made dinner. Let's forget he tied her up a night or two ago because, whoa, he knows their old car, uh, smelled of fish and chips.
This movie very badly botches the whole, "He convinces the family of his predicament, and they accept him" dynamic.