I can understand why Diane Wiest's character would take her maiden name back after the divorce, but why would Julie and Gary's last name be Buckman.
When Julie pikcs up her pictures, she tells the attendant that there should be another envelop of pictures for Buckman. I've seen this movie over 20 times and I just noticed this the last time I watched it.
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"Guess who's got a date with a prostitute!" - Richard Castle
I'd wondered that, too. Unless it's a goof, I suppose we can assume that since Ed had his "new wife, and new kids, and likes to pretend these kids don't exist", she might have had their names changed to her maiden name.
shareI notice in the credits, the brother's name is Garry Buckman-Lampkin. Julie is just shown as Buckman. It could be that she saw with clearer eyes that her father was a jerk, and decided to drop his name and just be Buckman.
You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi
In the film credits there are no last names any of the main characters at all. But here on the internet, people insist on making each character name as extensive as possible, adding middle names, married names and nicknames when available. Realistically, both Garry and Julie's surname would be Lampkin. But to make it more easy to understand in the film, as well as for the confusion about the photographs to work, Julie uses the name Buckman.
In fact, the scene with the photographs is based on the fact that both Julie and her mom have submitted photos to be developed under the same name. But it was Tod's camera, so if Julie had just been a little bit smarter, she'd have used his name instead. Oh well, maybe they were regulars at that Kodak stand and had a card with the Buckman name on it. Or maybe she used her mother's card (Now I'm really overthinking it).
However, listing Garry as 'Buckman-Lampkin' is just stupid. He would never be listed like that in real life. The person who added that to the IMDb obviously took the name from the dentist office scene, forgot to add it to Julie as well, and now people assume he's listed like that in the actual end credits of the movie.
I notice Nathan and Patty have the surname 'Huffner' listed, but Susan does not. Even though she is actually referred to as 'Mrs. Huffner' by one of her students.
Chip
"I think that Amish Robot was drunk"
Sounds like it was a bitter divorce I had a fiend who thought about changing her name to her mother's when they got divorced. She didn't want anything to do with him or have his last name..so yeah it happens
Probably would have been more realistic if the mother hadn't changed her name and picked up the pictures as Lipkin
Very true, I knew a woman who I used to work with who changed her surname to her mother’s name after they divorced because she didn’t like her Dad who apparently wasn’t the nicest of guys. She had a brother that was gay who I worked with and apparently he wanted to tell his old man but couldn’t bring himself to because of his father’s homophobic attitude. He had to sit and listen to him bad mouth homosexuals and would just placate him by agreeing with him. A shame but thenwith a man that like he'd be better off without him!
shareyeah i have two different friends actually who changed their names back to their mother's name when they were teenagers, cos their dads were dicks.
shareBecause their father is an assbag and completely absent from their lives. Why should they have his name? Frankly, I don't see why any kid should get their father's name...the mother is the one that carries them for 9 months, ruins their bodies forever, risks their lives giving birth...kids should have their mom's name.
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