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Good movie-some things didn't add up

posted 8 years ago by tenaroberts
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Movie was good-nice acting and the filmmaker made an effort to make it realistic. However, I wonder if there the writer did enough homework to make it accurate.
Major flaws:

1. Why she wasn't required to attend a drug program-usually that's mandatory for a parolee with a drug history.
2 she was allowed to smoke, even in a state parole office. If the era was the 80s it would make sense- smoking laws have changed greatly in the last few decades.
3. Why the manager of the halfway house didn't kick
her out for fighting or report this behavior to the PO
4. The Indian dude being a ladies man-lol.

her out for fighting or report this behavior to her po.
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[–] tenaroberts 8 years ago

5. The parole officer who breaks into her hotel room. That's B&E without a warrant.
6. Shes only incarcerated for 2 years and the little girl(Alexis) is scared of her, calls her Sherry instead of mommy. It's not like she was an infant when she went to prison. Also how is it that she has to ask ger brother permission to take her daughter out. Was there a CPS case that they failed to mention in the script? Did they have court appointed custody.

[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 8 years ago

1. Why she wasn't required to attend a drug program-usually that's mandatory for a parolee with a drug history.

I agree. And then when here PO finds out she used, he tells her she has to go IP, saying, "at this point, you don't qualify for outpatient!" Huh?

4. The Indian dude being a ladies man-lol.

You really find it so unbelievable that Sherry and some other (unseen) woman slept with him? It's not that he's so hot. Sherry, we know she has poor boundaries with men and a very warped view of sex. Probably the same with the other woman. There is a lot of "13th-stepping" among people who meet each other in the 12-Step meeting rooms.

As far as her daughter being scared of her, Sherry said early on in the 12-Step meeting, that she never took care of her daughter. Probably her daughter's earliest memories of life with Sherry are of chaos and being scared. Then you get her daughter not seeing her for years, and sister-in-law turning her against Sherry, and it makes sense to me.

About Sherry asking permission to take her daughter out, I don't think she was asking for legal permission. But since her daughter is living with them, she did need to work out when she would pick up her daughter, how long she would take her out for, and to have them prepare her daughter for the event. That's what she was asking them to go along with.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

[–] MuchToBeGratefulFor 8 years ago

Here's the scene that didn't add up to me -- pretty minor compared to your points, but it's always bugged me.

It's the scene at the end, at the rest stop. Alexis gets scared when Sherry threatens the woman in the rest room line, and disappears immediately. Sherry then finds Alexis in a toilet stall. But they were in a long line, meaning there were no stalls that were open. So Alexis, in the wink of an eye, ran past all the waiting people, and there happens to be an open stall? And the line just lets her cut ahead of them, without protest, and nobody tells Sherry they saw her daughter run in there? The whole scene did not add up.

You must be the change you seek in the world. -- Gandhi

[–] lemonhead1 (424) a year ago

Sherry's brother & sister in law had legal custody of her daughter, so for all intents & purposes, they were the legal parents and had every right to demand the times of visitation even if Sherry was the biological mother.