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Jarring Apparent Wealth Discrepancy


Mike lives in, and presumably owns, a million+ dollar beachfront property in the Tampa area. That, combined with his take-home from the first night that you see him strip, led me to believe that he was doing incredibly well, financially. Later in the film, he has to come up with a measly $10k to cover his buddy, which drains his entire life savings. You could argue that he's *beep* but no bank would cover that much of a mortgage even pre-2008, and if he did purchase that place pre-'08, then it would have cost double what it does now.

I know they probably used that house because they liked the look of the location, but it threw me off. Were others under the impression that he didn't own that property?

Minor detail, first world problems.

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The construction industry in Florida particularly the Tampa area in the 90s to probably early 2000s was booming. It was like the oil industry in east Texas in the 70s, all these regular Joes were now making huge jack and living the life. Its possible Mike owned that with how much he made from construction and dancin.

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I don't think it was ever stated or implied, that Mike 'owned' the place where he lived....



Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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Good point. Just watched it for the 10th time.

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