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I think story could be better though it shooted in 1980's atmosphere. I enjoyed the film . I didn't expect good films especially in tv late night in TURKEY. But I read Susan Sarandon nominated Golden Globe for her role and I decided to watch. Maybe relationship with older women can give more happiness , who knows
I also like musics but I coulnd't find anywhere in internet.

i dont think the headlight was fixed until after she left him because he was so consumed with his relationship with her. dont get me wrong. I loved Nora...but letting the headlight go was trying to show us how he was becoming more like her. When she left, he started taking care of things the "old" Max would have never let slide.

Well said.

Believe me, it's not just Jewish mothers who demand and expect. I have a Catholic one who always says to me, "I want you to do so and so." After I do it (like a fool), there is never a thank you. I have found in my age group (baby bloomer and a bit older)a lot of women are becoming pissed at their mothers and sometimes don't even like them. I think our mothers are living too long.

RE: "St Louis is not 90% Jewish or 90% Black or 90% White trash! It's a nice place to live & raise kids!"

(A) I'm sure you are correct about the ethnic composition of St Louis.

(B) However, presumably you did not mean to imply it would NOT be a nice place to live if the population were 90% Jewish or Black/African-American.

(C) If Max's mother mainly socialises with other Jewish people, then it is not surprising that there were proportionately more Jewish people in the film than in St Louis as a whole. It is not a film about a representative cross-section of St Louis, it is about Max and Nora and the people with whom they associate.

I haven't read the book and it's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I think it's pretty accurate. You're right, St. Louis isn't inhabited totally by Jews. If you live in the St. Louis area, then you know that St. Louis is more than the City of St. Louis (which is only 66 square miles). You also know how segregated the area is. Most Jews in the St. Louis area live in the "central corridor" between Olive Blvd. and Clayton Rd.

Max lives in the eastern end of the corridor somewhere in the Clayton/University City area. The Horowitz house, where Max goes for Thanksgiving, is probably located in the Creve Coeur/Chesterfield area on the west end of the corridor. Nora lives in south St. Louis. She's a stereotypical "hoosier." Sure, the characters are based on stereotypes. But, you know what they say about stereotypes...

Remember, the book was published in 1987 and the movie was released in 1990. The war in what was once Yugoslavia didn't begin until 1992. The war is what led many Bosnians to leave Bosnia-Herzgovina and come to the United States.

You wrote, "it seems like every Hollywood movie set in St. Louis has the demographics wrong." Really? There are Hollywood movies set in St. Louis? I don't think so. There haven't been many movies made in, or set in, St. Louis. "King of the Hill (1993)" and "The Game of Their Lives (2005)" are both set in St. Louis. "King of the Hill" is based on the A. E. Hotchner book and is set in the 1930s. "The Game of Their Lives" is about the U.S. soccer team that played in the 1950 World Cup. I think they did some research. Frank Borghi, Gino Pariani and Harry Keough were actually in the movie. Did they get it right? "The Big Brass Ring (1999)" is also set in St. Louis. Did they get it right? Can you list any movies set in St. Louis that get it wrong?

Of course, calling any of the movies I've listed "Hollywood movies" is a bit of a stretch. They're low-budget independent movies, not big-budget Hollywood studio "blockbusters."

Well maybe it was just that she was half in the bag, and was in a fight or flight situation (at least in her own mind), and this was her only defense.

It seemed very plausible to me.

Anyway, Max's Mother's remarks of "What is that?" and "She's no spring chicken" was coming through in the mannerisms of many of the people at the Thanksgiving party, and Nora just snapped.

I think that Nora acted the way she did at the Thanksgiving party because she was really mad at Max. When she was introduced to the host and hostess (Max's best friends), she realized the woman was the one Max had been talking to at the market, and that meant Max had lied to her again.

Nora was getting her steam up for the argument she and Max were going to have when they got back to her place, and didn't care what kind of impression she made at the dinner table.

I missed that when I first saw the film, and couldn't understand why she was so upset. But the next time I saw the film, it clicked.

The woman in the bathroom wasn't the hostess, instead she was the lawyer's bitchy wife that Max's other friends didn't very much like.


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