The surgery was $360,000.
That doesn't include anesthesia and costly recovery and meds.
For all you know the money she withdrew from the bank was only $100,000. Just cuz she was spending it like water doesn't mean it was a huge sum.
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I just saw the movie. Cute, slightly above average comedy. the money was clearly explained.
She pulled all the money out of her 401k. If you're not from the US, that's a self-funded retirement program. She figured she wasn't going to be retiring, so she withdrew everything. Of course, the movie skipped over the large tax and early withdrawal penalties she would have had to pay...
And she won over 200 grand at the casino, however even if by that time she DID decide to have the surgery, the roads were closed so she couldn't get back home...besides, she had already spent what was it, a week there? Figuring she had 2-3 weeks left, she was already having so much fun there wasn't much point in bringing it to an end on an iffy surgery in which she would have had a lonely recovery and gone back to her boring life.
If y'all want something to figure out in movies, figure out why still TODAY they can't make any teenagers intelligent in horror films.
That's what I was thinking the whole time too
"Why... so... serious?"
This is the second time I'm watching this and I guess I missed the operation part the first time. But as soon as I heard it this time I wondered the same thing the OP did. The hotel she stayed at is 4000 a night! Then the first class plane fare, the clothes, the food.. Surely she had at least 360,000 to use for the operation.
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what you guys aren't factoring in is that she had to use ALL of her money on this trip, she cleared out everything. if she had done that to have the surgery and it had been successful, she would have had absolutely no money left over. sure, by liquidating her accounts she prob had the 300,000 for the surgery, but would have been flat broke if she lived. so she couldn't really "afford" to have the surgery.
i usually don't like dumb feel-good comedies like this one, but i enjoyed it for what it is
I don't think that she had the money to get it and her HMO didn't cover it. If she had it she would have gotten the surgery since that was why she was told to go see the HMO lady in the first place. The hotel even at $4,000/night is about $28,000, then factor in the clothes, the food and the airfare, still probably doesn't come to 360,000. Also, the way that she was spending money when she did win in the casino, she probably just about broke even from what she had already spent. Also, take into consideration she was only making $28,000/year at her job so the 401k might not have been that large to begin with.
sharePlus it's a good thing that she didn't. Can you imagine springing for something like that and then finding out that you didn't need it in the first place?
shareshe won $500K at the casino. Since it's overseas, not sure if she has to pay taxes on the winnings but hey I don't really care...this movie is like a fairy tale so i tend to excuse leaps of faith.
shareI've been really worried about outsourcing lately.
One of the things that might be outsourced next is healthcare. Apparently people are starting to go to India to get surgeries for a fraction of the cost.
I wonder what a cranial debulking surgery (what Georgia needed in the movie) would cost in India.