So what happened to Mindy and Randy?

exactly. my mother was in a relationship with a man with children when i was a child. after a few years of living together, they split up, and the kids - who had essentially been my siblings - were gone. i've never seen them since. i have, out of curiosity, stalked them on facebook.. but it's been 25 years and we were kids. i'd feel weird contacting them at this point.

i think this aspect of the movie is also meant to showcase the lack of control Mason has over his life at that point.

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This is extremely accurate. Every once in a while I think about childhood friends that were lost after I moved.

Thanks for the link.

I do realize she had to leave them behind and had no choice in the matter because she wasn't their legal guardian, and that having no closure on them is more "realistic" because that's how it sometimes is in the real world. I do get all of that, but I guess it's just selfishness on my part for wanting a bit of closure on the step-kids mainly because I became emotionally invested in them.

I mean, after Bill broke all those dishes and the kids were hanging out in their room, Sam and Mindy had each other, Mason was watching a comedy skit on the laptop...but Randy was lying on the ground, staring at the ceiling. I felt bad for all of the kids, but mainly Randy because he had no one. It seemed like Mindy got the better end of the bargain because her dad wasn't AS big an *beep* to her ("I trust you.") as he was with Randy ("Are you feeling left out?!"). Mason at least had his mom to run to; Randy had no one except his sister.

Then when Olivia finally left Bill and took Sam and Mason away, the shot of Mindy and Randy on the staircase, utterly helpless, as they watched the only decent people they had in their lives at that moment leave so abruptly...just really broke my heart.

I do wish it would have showed what happened to Mindy and Randy but it is true that life goes on and people move on.

About the kids not reuniting: a child's and teenager's brain and outlook on life is quite different from an adult's. The time goes a lot slower as a kid, but also adapts much faster and friends that are out of their lives for more than a few months tend to be forgotten about completely and they go on with their lives. I mean, how many adults today have consistently had people in their lives since they were children?

Or maybe their father beat them to death and he ended up in jail and died of delirium tremens over the next week while awaiting trial.

Tf? Patricia isn't fat or even chubby. You must be one lonely dude.


I met Cinderella once... She's actually kind of a bitch.

thank you, glad someone else has said this. I thought it was strange that they were living with their dad - unless we're only shown them on weekends or during the times when the dad has custody.
Maybe the professor mentioned being divorced when they met, I can't remember, but I don't recall their mother being mentioned until this point.