sister: prom date

Well, considering my uncle had to take my mother to the prom, no. BTW: We aren't hillbillies, that's just the way things were done 40 - 50 years ago and would not have been terribly unusual during the era the movie was set.

As long as they didn't get a motel room afterward, nothing seems particularly wrong with it. Making the scene at the prom was more important than who you went with.

I don't think so.

Back in the day IF you weren't involved with anyone at the time then you went with someone of the opposite sex who was a friend OR relative.

Only people make perfectly innocent things seem sick and crazy.

No. If you're new to that school and don't know anyone and don't want to go dateless, that's what folks did.

They hooked up with others when they got there.

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Ben's sister is a snarky wallflower and Ben shows great love for her by taking her to the prom instead of some classmate.

"You eat guts."--Nick Devlin

maybe you didn't notice what time the movie took place in? It wasn't meant to be a Kentucky thing- back then it wasn't considered scandalous if you didn't have a date & took a sibling- they weren't doing anything, just attending a function together.
dude, use your common sense.

Ben taking his sister to the prom was an act of kindness for, as well as an act of family solidarity since they were outsiders, and it both of them a chance to be seen at a school function. But I can top that: my date for the prom backed out at the last minute. SInce I already had my dress, my father stepped in to take me to the dance. He was EVERYONE'S hero that night: mine, my friends', my teachers. Of course, my prom was only a few years before Ben's, so I don't know if my father's chivalry would be as honored today as it was then.