..why they got a house big enough for like 85 people. Then she can't even put her daughter on the same floor as her bedroom?? Goofy.
"So, what would you like to see on your honeymoon, Mrs. Cord?" "Lots of lovely ceilings."
I don't know if they explicitly state how many rooms the place has and I agree that it does seem to be big but in some areas the actual apartments or whatever may be three or four floors high but are not *actually* that big.
I knew a couple who lived in New York and the place only had two actual bedrooms and one was on the third or fourth floor and the other was on the second and on a floor in the middle there was a weird loft/open space thing with a bathroom. The entire apartment was not really very spacious or big at all, it was, however, multiple floors high. And their place certainly would not have been comfortable for more than two people.
I am not familiar with NY so I have no clue if that is weird for that area or typical but their place was like that.
Dick, I am VERY disappointed.
IIRC, Foster's house was more or less an old school NYC townhouse.
A lot of those are surprisingly narrow structures. My wife's cousin lives in one that's been subdivided (by floor), and I'm not sure the interior is any more than 20 feet wide. This makes for kind of odd layouts where you more or less need 4 floors to accommodate the bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and other shared living space.
It also can depend on when it was built and what happened to it since it was built. Some were built for single families and then rented out as flats, the owner/manager on the ground floor and tenants on 2, 3 4, sometimes with a shared bath and parlour-type room on one floor, with the bedroom floors having a parlour and a bedroom, maybe a bathroom.
Some old ones weren't built with bathrooms originally and got reconfigured for that later, which could result in weirdness in layouts.
Mostly thought I think its the narrow footprint that makes for unusual interior formats.
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I attribute it to one line that the daughter said 'Dad's rich. Mom's just mad.'
I think that Meg was extremely hurt because of her husband's infidelity and trading her in for a younger model. She was mad as hell and was going to use that in a materialistic way, by making him pay for it, literally. Also, we learn that they come from a very high, luxurious living, accustomed due to husband's income in pharmaceuticals. It's very difficult to exit that lifestyle by downgrading to a 2 bedroom apartment in those circumstances. She had a nice divorce settlement and was going to use it to continue living the lifestyle she and her daughter were accustomed to.
I think that Meg was extremely hurt because of her husband's infidelity and trading her in for a younger model.
She was mad as hell and was going to use that in a materialistic way, by making him pay for it, literally.
Does anyone know if this house is actually real? I absolutely fell in love with it. Gorgeous wood floors, leaded windows, built-in bookcases, atrium doors 9 fireplaces! space, space, space. The physical destruction of the (plaster) ceiling made me hate that robber even more. Yes, it would require cleaning help to keep it up but it was sooo gorgeous! Oh, yes, the movie was good too. Jodie Foster et al. (Nicole Kidman would have sunk the film; good voice of obnoxious g'friend)
(I wanted the last robber to get away).
The house was part of the cast too.
The exterior was real. The interior was a set.
shareThe official reason is known as "having shit tons of money."
shareThe realtor said in the opening scene “HE can afford” it as in her ex-husband. I’m guessing in the divorce agreement the ex-husband had to buy Meg a new house and she was like “hell I have the chance to take his money I’d might as well milk it for all it’s worth”
She was really hurt that he cheated on her and this was a way for her to get back at him I’m guessing.