Let me 1st say I feel this film was well done and the actors did a good job portraying their characters (and their lack of character). I hated watching this movie because the brother was such a jerk to his sister and nephew.
Though I could understand where Terry's problems originated, I really didn't care. Terry had some good points, but his bad points outweighed everything else. He belittles and humiliates the boy, swears in front of him on a regular basis, breaks promises, (when he changes his mind about going fishing-deciding to take his nephew after all-the sister looks at him as though he's an angel sent from above!), shoves his nephew in the face of the father he's never met, and then grinds his poor little face in the fact that his real father is a total loser. I call this abusive.
If I were the sister, I would have thrown him out (with NO REGRETS) the night he took the boy to the bar. And would have HAD to physically assault him over the father incident, at least putting him in the hospital for awhile. The mom was irresponsible toward her son. She knew her brother was unstable but still allowed him to babysit and influence her son. Just because they're screwed up doesn't mean the little boy should join the crowd.
FINALLY the mom "gently" asks idiot brother to leave. Love my brother or not, he'd've had to go much sooner!! At the end of the movie Terry tells sis she's an important person in his life, and she tells him he's the MOST important person in her life. Woops - she forgot about her son. In many ways the mom was responsible toward her son, but not in this big way.
I guess this means this was a good film because I was so emotionally affected by the characters. I just wonder if anyone else felt this rage toward the Terry character... unfortunately this film is like real life in many ways. If it's not a brother, it's a boyfriend, or an abusive husband who's not her son's real father, etc.
Though I could understand where Terry's problems originated, I really didn't care. Terry had some good points, but his bad points outweighed everything else. He belittles and humiliates the boy, swears in front of him on a regular basis, breaks promises, (when he changes his mind about going fishing-deciding to take his nephew after all-the sister looks at him as though he's an angel sent from above!), shoves his nephew in the face of the father he's never met, and then grinds his poor little face in the fact that his real father is a total loser. I call this abusive.
If I were the sister, I would have thrown him out (with NO REGRETS) the night he took the boy to the bar. And would have HAD to physically assault him over the father incident, at least putting him in the hospital for awhile. The mom was irresponsible toward her son. She knew her brother was unstable but still allowed him to babysit and influence her son. Just because they're screwed up doesn't mean the little boy should join the crowd.
FINALLY the mom "gently" asks idiot brother to leave. Love my brother or not, he'd've had to go much sooner!! At the end of the movie Terry tells sis she's an important person in his life, and she tells him he's the MOST important person in her life. Woops - she forgot about her son. In many ways the mom was responsible toward her son, but not in this big way.
I guess this means this was a good film because I was so emotionally affected by the characters. I just wonder if anyone else felt this rage toward the Terry character... unfortunately this film is like real life in many ways. If it's not a brother, it's a boyfriend, or an abusive husband who's not her son's real father, etc.