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Warren DeMontague

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28. Okay, Jeff, I think I watched that movie on an airplane many years ago, so I may not be remembering

Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:01 AM

Aug 2012

it right; it's sort of a "wonderful life" in reverse, where he's this lonely yuppie who wakes up and has this different life where he is the same age, but has a low paying job, is married to his high school sweetheart, and has a couple kids, right?

So he goes through the whole movie, decides he likes this life better, then he wakes up again as his old lonely self... and of course, the end of the movie is he, as the lonely yuppie self, tracks down the HS sweetheart so they can get back together.

Am I right on this, so far?

So.. okay, great- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KIDS? I found that part kind of upsetting. Are they just lost to the void? Is he supposed to make new ones? Is the fact that he and the wife the same age as they were when they had these older children, gonna matter, are they still gonna have the same children?

It didn't make any sense. I mean, obviously the premise requires suspension of disbelief, but...

and like I said, it was a long time ago, and on an airplane. I may be remembering the flick wrong.

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Okay, Jeff, I think I watched that movie on an airplane many years ago, so I may not be remembering Warren DeMontague Aug 2012 #28

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