Yeah, the microfiche definitely dates it...these days a screen writer would just have her google search.
Smoking in a restaurant also massively dates it for me. It just seems really alien now.
The massive car phone instead of a normal mobile phone.
A huge fuss about sending a proposal by courier instead of just emailing it. (Even further, now a lot of offices actively strive to be paper free).
The big old alarm clock instead of a phone alarm (that's dated to me anyway, I haven't owned an alarm clock in years LOL).
Walking into a house to be a Nanny without an agency or a number of references...maybe that's just Claire's stupidity though? Maybe people back then would have demanded that anyway.
For me (being in the UK) the word 'retard' which is a complete no no over here now, it's pretty much beeped over like a swear word if people do use it on TV, and even then it's quite rare because it's become such a politically incorrect word.
Marlene's dress and big old hair LOL
On a similar note, the father's big old beard LOL (Although for some reason big old lumber jack beards are back...shiver)
However....I still love this film LOL It's just become a period piece, that's all :)
~ I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. ~
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