Butt News Movie Club #36: The Good Son
The "GOOD" Son?? You Must Have Watched a Different Movie from Me Because This Guy BLOWS!
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A little boy stands on a cliff in the Badlands(?). He is all alone, which seems dangerous, as the lands are famously bad! There are two little boys in this movie, but I can’t tell which little boy this is. Oh, now some other little boys are playing soccer. Okay, the boy is Elijah Wood, and he has my mother’s haircut.
Elijah’s father, the actor David Morse, who somehow made time for The Good Son despite his prior commitments of being fifth-billed in every movie and television show ever made, arrives at soccer looking grim. Elijah sees him and stops playing soccer because David Morse looking grim is the famous omen that means his mother is dead! Almost. Elijah gets to the hospital and tells his mother, “I promise you’re not gonna die cuz I won’t let you,” but then she immediately dies. She pwned his ass with that one. Imagine your last act on this earth is making a liar out of your son!
After the funeral David Morse’s business friend calls and is like hey I know you’re burying your wife today but you GOTTA take this job of a lifetime in Tokyo for two weeks, and David Morse says YES??????? So instead of, idk, letting Elijah stay with a neighbor or a babysitter or one of the families from soccer (it’s only two weeks!) or taking him with him to Tokyo or perhaps NOT GOING, they drive their Jeep Wrangler from South Dakota(?) all the way to Maine. That alone would take two weeks!
At first Elijah is just playing his GameBoy—my coping mechanism of choice as well—but David Morse is desperate 2 process and he will NOT drop it! He’s like, yo, Mark (Elijah’s name is Mark), “I know you’re hurting, but please don’t shut me out like this.” And Mark spookily goes, “She’s coming back. Maybe not as herself, but she’s coming back.” And Dad (unfazed???) is like, “Mark, I miss her too, but she’s gone,” and that is NOT how you talk to a spooky witch-boy of the Badlands!!!!
Mark screams “NO!!!” and then UNBUCKLES HIS SEATBELT AND RUNS OUT INTO THE DEADLY DESERT.
But I guess Mark just came back to the car off-camera (anti-climactic) and they kept driving because now they’re almost all the way to Maine, having crossed 11 states in three hours. They drive on some crazy Ice Road Truckers road with their CLOTH DOORS to the house from Practical Magic where they meet Mark’s aunt and uncle and girl-cousin who are all extremely normal.
Then Macaulay Culkin comes down the stairs wearing a terrifying plaster mask and the parents are like “ha ha ha here is our normal son, Henry.” Henry has a haunted Dr. Lecter mask for Mark too, and Mark thinks this rocks for some reason, even though it’s clearly going to sink blighted roots into his face and never detach.
Mark and Henry are instant best friends. Henry shows Mark how to eat a Maine lobster for the first time. Henry loves to rip and munch the bodies of little creatures, which is normal! It’s food! Henry violently kicks Mark in the kneecap under the table, and Mark retaliates, because this too is normal. Violence: it’s a kind of language for boys! No cause for alarm here!
David Morse says he’s leaving for two weeks “so I never have to leave you again,” and no offense but I’m not buying that for a second. You’re leaving at literally the worst possible time, but I’m supposed to trust that you won’t leave again later during way more reasonable times? Shyeah rite!!!!!! He explains the situation to Mark as though somehow they haven’t talked about it yet: “It’s winter break—all you have to do is play with Henry and you’ll have a great time.”
Mark says that sounds like a good plan, especially since Henry is NORMAL and NOT EVIL!
Mark wakes up the next morning and Henry is already outside playing his favorite game: war. Henry chases imaginary soldiers (Axis, certainly, one can only assume!!!!!!!!) along the top of an icy stone sea wall. How did the movie get insurance for that?
Meanwhile, Elijah creeps about the house and finds a little kid’s empty bedroom. Beep boop boop he does the math. What kid could that be? Probably a kid that died in a normal way of non-murder causes!
Mark starts to run outside to play with Henry but his aunt stops him and gives him breakfast. She says, “We’re really glad you’re here, Mark.” Then Henry calls for Mark from outside, so Mark takes off without finishing his breakfast and his aunt is just like, “I’ll see you at lunch!” Make him finish his milk, Susan!!!!!! In 30 years those eggs are going to cost $14 apiece!
Mark and Henry climb up to a treehouse in an extremely tall tree, way too tall to be a parent-sanctioned treehouse even in a libertarian paradise! Mark can’t quite make it and is like “help me up” and then the branch he’s standing on breaks and he’s dangling above the cold maw of oblivion but Henry catches him by the wrist.
Henry: “If I let you go, you think you could fly?”
Mark: “No?????”
Henry pulls him up and is like I was just joking silly goose, so they laugh and cuddle. Chekov’s treehouse, obviously!!!!! A LITTLE BOY WOULD NOT BE STRONG ENOUGH TO DO THAT, by the way. Have you ever tried picking up, like, a 30-pound bucket? That’s World’s Strongest Man International Strongman Competition behavior!
They go to an abandoned factory and throw rocks through all the windows. Mark is learning that sometimes it’s a lot of fun to be a little bit psychopathic!!!!! The abandoned factory’s ghost foreman catches them and calls them “little bastards” so they run away on the train tracks, all the way to the cemetery. So far everything is still pretty fun. And normal.
They stop at an old well in the cemetery where the dead people get their water. Chekov’s well. Henry opens a sardine tin of cigarettes and starts smoking.
M(N)ark: “They give you cancer.”
Henry: “Who cares? You’re gonna die anyway.”
Henry asks Mark if he saw his mom’s body after she died, and explains that it’s important to research the dead.
Henry: “I took a real good look when my kid brother Richard drowned in the bathtub.”
Mark: “Your brother drowned?????”
Henry: “He was completely blue.”
Mark: “Shut up about my mom!”
Henry: “I’m just trying to be scientific!”
Fair enough!!! In this house we believe: science is real, Henry is normal, and little boys smoking cigarettes is cool!
Henry says that if Mark hits him he’ll throw him down the well. But then Henry apologizes and says he was just kidding and he’s sorry for talking about Mark’s dead mom and he would hate it if he didn’t have a mom, which is kind of back-handed if you think about it. Now they are best friends again.
They go home and giggle in bed. Why does Henry have two twin beds in his room?
Henry: “You ever read Skeleton Man?”
Mark: “Who?”
Henry: “He’s this really cool serial killer you can’t kill because he’s already dead.”
Mark: “Nah, those things will warp out your mind.”
Mark, could you just TRY to be cool about ONE thing???
Henry and Mark walk out on to a pier and get chased by a scary guard dog (Chekov’s dog). The dog almost bites their asses but they escape just in time. To Mark’s horror, Henry BARKS BACK AT THE DOG. I’m starting to think this kid is just a little bit TWISTED!
Next they go to a cliff above the sea and look down at another cliff where the aunt is standing thinking about Richard. Chekov’s cliff.
They go to a haunted shed. Chekov’s shed. Inside there’s some kind of terrifying war machine????? It’s a crossbow that Henry made???????? Chekov’s crossbow?????????????????? HENRY LOADS THE CROSSBOW AND AIMS AT A PASSING KITTY CAT????????
Mark (starting to get mildly concerned): “Don’t hurt her! Just give her a scare.” (WHY DO YOU EVEN WANT TO DO THAT?)
Henry (smiling purple devil emoji): “Sure.”
Henry fires and misses. He is disappointed that he did not successfully kill the cat.
Mark goes to therapy, which is insane because he is, again, only in Maine for two weeks. He confesses to the therapist, Ms. Davenport, that he is tortured by guilt because he promised his mom he wouldn’t let her die but then he did. The therapist is like oh shit this kid’s a WRECK…DOLLAR SIGN DOLLAR SIGN DOLLAR SIGN CASH REGISTER NOISE DOLLAR SIGN.
That night, Mark has a dream that his mom is walking around the house pregnant in a wedding gown. But actually it’s just his aunt and it’s not a dream. But is she pregnant? Oh, shit—Mark goes up to his aunt and is like, “It is you. You came back. I knew you’d come back.” Dang, Mark is trippin’!
Henry sees his mom being nice to Mark from atop the stairs and he’s like oh hell no. No more Mr. Nice Henry.
Mark helps Henry’s sister Connie do a puzzle. They put an edge piece in LAST, and I’m starting to rethink who’s the real psychopath here! Henry comes in to get Mark and tells Connie she can’t come: “Not YOU.”
Connie: “I don’t care about your stupid secrets! I’ve got my own secrets and I’m not gonna tell you a single one!”
Girl, consider yourself lucky! They’re off to Henry’s boneyard to do despicable acts!
Henry gets the crossbow out again and then he SHOOTS AND KILLS THE DOG FROM THE DOCK as revenge for chasing them. That dog was just doing its job! It was at work!!! I hate Henry!!! They drop the dog’s body down the well in the cemetery.
Back at the house, Mark has a moment with Susan who’s looking at a picture of Richard (played in the photograph by Rory Culkin). Henry does NOT like this and says he needs to show Mark something in the shed.
Henry tells Mark that he’s sorry about killing the dog and claims it was an accident. But I’m not so sure, seeing as he aimed a crossbow at it and then shot it to death with a makeshift crossbow bolt whose make he personally shifted! Then he shows Mark an evil dummy named Mr. Highway.
Mark: “What are you going to do with him?”
Henry: “That depends on you, on whether you’ll help me.”
Mark: “Do what?”
Henry: “Something amazing, something you’ll never forget.”
You know, Mark, I know you’re only a little boy, but haven’t you ever heard the famous phrase, “Fool me once, shame on, shame on you, you fool me, can’t get fooled again”? Stop trusting this asshole!
They carry Mr. Highway to a bridge over the highway (his homeland) and Henry says, “Poor Mr. Highway. He’s thinking about the end. He’s had enough of this terrible life. He’s thinking about the end.” Then Henry throws Mr. Highway off the overpass causing a many-car pileup including many deaths presumably.
HENRY LOVES IT.
They run away from the crime scene and Mark is freaked. The cops arrive but two little boys can’t be found—they skiddle and skaddle through the woods and into a culvert! Tee hee!
Henry: “We did it together.”
Mark: “You could have killed people.”
Henry: “With your help.”
Mark: ……..
Henry: “I feel sorry for you, Mark. You just don’t know how to have fun. It’s because you’re scared all the time.”
Henry said he used to be scared too, until he realized “that once you realize you can do anything, you’re free. You can fly. Nobody can touch you. Nobody. Don’t be afraid to fly!”
Furthermore, Henry says, he fulfilled their oral contract to the letter! He said his idea for an activity was something that Mark would never forget, and indeed he will not!!!
Mark: “YOU’RE SICK.”
Henry: “Hey, where’s the gratitude?”
It turns out that nobody was killed in the pile-up. I assume Henry is disappointed.
Mark threatens to tell Henry’s dad that Henry failed the vibe check by being homicidal and Henry says, “Go ahead, tell him, or better yet, how about we tell him together?” Henry says he’ll blame it all on Mark, so Mark backs down.
Mark: “Leave me alone.”
Henry: “Leave you alone? This is my room!”
Connie comes in and so Henry tries to pull off her ears. Mark says that it’s actually his room too (debatable) and Henry needs to leave Connie alone, so then Henry pulls on MARK’S ears!!!
Then Henry offers both a threat and a confession of sorts: “Hey, accidents will happen, just ask my mom about Richard.”
Are you saying you rub-a-dub-dubbed Richard?????? A CRAZY thing to admit unprompted!
The next day, Mark goes to the playground with his therapist. My therapist has never offered this service and I’m suing! He asks her what makes people turn evil, and she says evil is a word we use when we don’t understand something. Mark’s like, ummmmmmmm, no, I’m pretty sure some guys are just evil. Like what if hypothetically there was a boy who liked to do horrible shit for fun?
Therapist: “I don’t believe in evil.”
Mark: “You should.”
Mark is not helping his own reputation here. Now the therapist (an idiot) thinks HE’S evil!!!! He’s framing himself! She is a terrible therapist, btw. I hate her.
David Morse calls but Henry intercepts the call so Mark can’t rat to him about Mr. Highway. Henry tells his parents that Mark wants to move into Richard’s room because he is a pervert with no respect for the dead. Susan is very uncomfortable with this but the dad pushes her to allow it for some reason??? Even though apparently they have an extra bedroom on the third floor AND Mark is like “I DO NOT WANT TO MOVE, HENRY IS MAKING THAT UP”?????
Dad: “I know, but we gotta face it.”
Susan: “We do face it. I face it every day. You’re the one that’s forgetting.”
She storms out and goes to Richard’s room to cry. Henry goes to comfort her. I’m sorry but they do not make them like this anymore! There is no reason for any of these performances to be this good! The parents go out to dinner and leave the kids home alone (WTF they’re 10??). Connie announces that they’re playing hide and seek and she’s hiding first. Henry is like, “you better find her first,” in a sinister manner to Mark, insinuating homicide yet again. Like, dude, we get it.
Then Henry cuts the power and ambushes Mark with a flashlight to the eyeballs so he can’t see.
Mark: “No fair!”
Henry: “Fair? What do you think this is—a game?”
Question: why tf does Connie trust Henry??? There’s no way he hasn’t been a treacherous little sneak for her entire life!
Somewhere in the house, Mark hears Connie scream. He races to the rescue and finds Henry not murdering Connie but tickling her.
Mark is like, yo, Connie, it’s bedtime, how about I’ll read you a story instead of killing you which is what your brother wants to do. Connie says that sounds chill. Henry stays up in the terrifying attic playing with his flashlight like a freak. Mark reads to Connie until she falls asleep and then Henry comes in for a nightcap of being menacing.
Henry: “That was a darling story, Mark.”
Mark: “What are you doing?”
Henry: “I want to tuck in my kid sister. Such a sweet little thing. Do you really think I’d hurt her?”
Mark: “Yes.”
Of course I think that! You killed a dog with a crossbow AND you murdered Mr. Highway and he was your son!!!
In the morning, Mark wakes up on the floor of the bedroom where he has been guarding Connie through the night. But Connie isn’t there! He runs downstairs where the parents are having another emotional conversation about Richard’s death. Susan mentions that Connie went ice skating with Henry at Miller’s Pond, so of course Captain Save-a-Hoe is off like a shot.
There are literally hundreds of people skating at Miller’s Pond! Mark can’t see Henry and Connie anywhere. Why would Henry choose Miller’s Pond to murder Connie when he could take her to a less popular pond? Just to show Mark that he CAN? Deranged!
Mark runs out across the ice in his sneaks, interrupting many hockey scrimmages. He finally spots them. Henry is skating super fast and pulling Connie super fast and she loves it. She’s so stupid!
Then Henry slingshots Connie out into the forbidden area where the ice is thin. She falls through the ice and into the water. Henry wiggles out across the ice to pretend to save her, but actually he doesn’t help at all and just sort of dangles his limp arm there. The adults won’t let Mark through! And no one will believe him that Henry yeeted Connie through the ice on purpose!
WHY ARE ALL THESE ADULTS JUST STANDING AT THE ROPE WATCHING CONNIE DROWN?
Eventually some adults show up with axes and break through the ice and rescue Connie, who is dead. I’m not sure Susan can take this, you guys!!! The other adults agree with me that Susan is going to FREAK OUT if Connie is dead, so instead they bring Connie back to life using a hairdryer. Everyone gathers at the hospital. Mark is like wtf do I do now??? I alone know he tried to kill her on purpose!
Later he goes to find Susan who is standing on her favorite cliff again (ma’am why don’t you put a bench there?). He tells her that he thinks Henry tried to kill Connie on purpose and she SLAPS HIS FACE.
Susan: “Stop it! That’s a lie! Henry is my son! He’s a little boy and I love him! Don’t ever come to me with these lies again!”
Okay, bitch! Jeez!
Back at the hospital, Henry watches Connie sleep and considers smothering her with a pillow. But he didn’t realize that his mom came in and is right behind him! Dude, why does he have it out for Connie so bad?? Just to piss Mark off?
Henry: “What are you doing here? I thought you were home with Daddy.”
YOU ARE TEN YEARS OLD. HOW DID YOU GET HERE? IT’S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.
Susan: “I was worried about Connie.”
Henry: “I know I’ve always treated her like a bratty kid sister, but until yesterday I never realized how much she meant to me. Well, I better go home now.”
WHAT DO YOU MEAN “GO HOME”? ARE YOU GOING TO WALK?
Susan: “I’ll see you at home.”
SEE YOU AT HOME? HE IS TEN. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
Mark finally gets a hold of his dad and tells him that Henry is evil and he killed a dog with a steel bolt from a homemade crossbow and then tried to assassinate Connie as well. His dad is like whoooooooa, can I talk to Susan please? But Mark is like nah, dog, she doesn’t believe me. Yo, Mark, TELL HIM SHE SLAPPED YOUR FACE!!!!!
Instead of reacting with horror and insisting on speaking with Susan, David Morse is like SHRUG and tells Mark to go talk to his therapist. Mark runs over there. But cut to the therapist: Henry has already murdered the therapist!!!!!!!
No, jk, but he has murdered her professional boundaries by signing up as her newest patient. And he told her that Mark is the one who is evil!!!!!!! And she’s like mmmmmm, interesting, tell me everything!
Henry: “Maybe I shouldn’t say anything, but the way he acts when nobody’s around, Ms. Davenport, he scares me sometimes.”
Ms. Davenport: [hypnotized by Henry’s lip gloss] GOT IT. MARK. EVIL. NO FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS.
Henry has decisively won the infowar. Now Mark is truly alone and the only thing standing in between Connie and certain death. A lot of responsibility for a guy who was quite recently a toddler!
Back in the treehouse, Mark confronts Henry about stealing his therapist, and Henry confronts Mark about stealing his mom. Instead of denying it, Mark decides to say this?????
Mark: “You know, you’re wrong about that. She is my mother.”
NOT RIGHT NOW, MARK.
Henry: “Your mom? You crazy? Your mom’s maggot food.”
Mark: “My mom said she’d always be with me. She chose your mom as a way of coming back. I guess you wouldn’t understand that, but it’s true. She’s my mother now.”
Mark, I’m trying to fight for you here. Can you chill?
Then Henry says the most famous line in the movie, which I would and will happily wear on a t-shirt1: “Hey, Mark, don’t fuck with me.”
In case I haven’t been clear because I’m addicted 2 being a bitch, Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin are giving the two greatest acting performances I’ve ever seen in this movie and it’s an honor to be alive on the same planet as them!!!
Mark wakes up in the night in alarm. Henry isn’t in bed. He checks on Connie. Everything seems fine. He goes down to the kitchen. The refrigerator door is open. He goes to close it. Henry is behind him!
Henry (red demon emoji): “Looking for a midnight snack? Go ahead! Eat, drink, don’t let me stop you.”
Mark (suspicious): “What did you do?”
Henry: “Do? Me? Oh, I get it. You think I put something in my family’s food. Mark, come on. Do you really think I’d do a thing like that?”
Mark, again, I’m on your side here, but could you try SLIGHTLY to not fall for every single one of Henry’s tricks? He is the lord of lies! While Mark freaks out about the alleged poison, just as Henry intended, Henry runs upstairs and wakes up his parents: “Mom, dad, it’s Mark, you better come quick!”
They all run back to the kitchen and find Mark maniacally trying to shove the entire refrigerator down the garbage disposal.
Mark: “He’s trying to poison you!”
Mark’s credibility is toast at this point. Nobody believes him. Henry is the one acting normal, while Mark is the one acting like incredible toast! Susan is like Mark, please stop, you are going nuts.
The Dad: “We’ll talk in the morning.”
Mark: “What for? Nobody believes me.”
They make Mark sleep in Richard’s haunted room as punishment for going nuts. Privately the parents are like yooooo wtf this kid dumped out all my kefir?? They decide that Mark’s dad will be back in a few days so they’re going to put a pin in it and circle back and that’s a level of avoidance that I relate to.
Still, though, Susan notices Henry creepily peepin’ at her in the hallway and she knows something is off. The seed has been planted, like when Keith Papini knew Sherri was lying at the hospital.
Susan goes to do her own investigation. She checks out the shed and finds all of Henry’s creepy stuff. She finds a creepy doll hanging from a noose, perhaps Connie-coded. She finds a rubber ducky that belonged to Richard. It’s Henry’s trophy from the scene of his first murder!
Then Henry comes in and catches her!
Henry: “Mom, what are you doing?”
Susan: “I was just looking around”
She asks him if he would tell her if something was wrong with him, and he’s like HUH, and she says that sometimes as kids we do things that we feel bad about.
Henry: “I don’t feel bad about anything.”
A normal green-flag statement from a normal boy! Susan holds up Richard’s rubber ducky and says, “Look what I found!” and Henry SCREAMS RAGEFULLY “Where did you get that?????”
It was in the middle of the floor, dude! Susan says she couldn’t find it after Richard’s accident, and Henry counters that “it was mine before it was his.” Sounds reasonable, but not so fast! Susan’s stinky detector is still flashing red.
Susan: “But you knew I was looking for it. How did you get it, Henry? How did you get this?”
Henry (regular Bilbo Baggins): “I took it. I’m sorry mom. I took it because I wanted something to remember Richard by. That’s all. So can I have it back, please?”
Susan: “No. No, you can’t have it back.”
Henry (DEMONIC BILBO BAGGINS): “It’s mine. GIVE IT TO ME!!!!!!!”
Henry violently wrestles the rubber duck from his mom, then runs to the cemetery and throws the duck down the well. Then he decides it’s time to go terminally bother Mark.
He’s like, “Mark, did you cry at your mom’s funeral?” and Mark’s like ARE YOU IMPLYING YOU’RE GOING TO KILL YOUR MOM? And Henry’s like no—I would never kill my mother.
………“Oh wait, I just remembered, she’s not my mom anymore, she’s yours.”
HE GOT YOUR ASS, MARK!!!
Mark leaps across the room and puts scissors to Henry’s throat, but unfortunately the dad catches him and adds this to the “Mark is the evil one, not Henry” file. Mark tries to tell him that Henry threatened to kill Susan but he is not hearing it. He locks Mark in a room and leaves. The room is literally all windows and Mark could easily escape from there but okay. Instead he just runs around and screams. While Mark “tries” to escape, Henry lures Susan to the clifftop.
Henry: “Can we go for a walk, mom? Like we did when I was little?”
FINALLY Mark smashes a window with a chair and jumps out. His uncle and the stupid therapist try to grab him but he escapes! He is going to save his reincarnated mom’s soul’s life in his aunt’s body NO MATTER WHAT.
Susan asks Henry what happened when Richard died. Henry says he was downstairs playing and had nothing to do with it but Susan says BEEP BEEP BEEP STINKY ALARM!
Susan: “Don’t lie. Did you kill Richard?”
Henry: “What if I did?”
Susan: “We’ll get you help.”
Henry: “You don’t look too good, mom. Looks like you need the help.”
Even you must admit, Susan, it was a scorching hot burn!
Henry says that he knows she’s going to send him away and put him in “one of those places” and he’d “much rather die.” He runs away toward the cliff and Susan chases him, thinking he’s going to leap to his death to avoid going to one of those places.
Henry: “You came for me, mom? You really thought I was going to jump, huh? You don’t know me very well.”
I guess I know Henry better than his own mother because I was not surprised at all when he PUSHES HIS MOM OFF THE CLIFF.
Susan (STILL CONFUSED, CLINGING TO LEDGE): “Henry??????”
Henry: “Yes, mom?” [GOES TO DROP GIANT ROCK ON MOM TO KILL HER]
Mark shows up just in time and tackles Henry before he can drop the rock. But Henry gets the upper hand immediately! Child fight scene! Henry bashes Mark on the head with a rock. Henry strangles Mark. Mark sucks at fighting.
Meanwhile, Susan manages to climb up back the cliff (YEAH RIGHT).
Mark and Henry roll over and over, then fall off the edge of the cliff together. Miraculously, Susan catches a boy in each hand. But she only has enough oxytocin super-strength to save one! Who will she choose? The good son or the bad son?
Henry: “Mom, I love you! I need your other arm!”
Susan: hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
THAT BITCH LETS HENRY GO
AAAAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
R U FUCKING KIDDING ME
THAT IS SO INSANE
THEY SHOW HENRY’S DEAD SQUISHED BODY AT THE END
THE 90S WERE CRAZY
I am not sure that a mother would be able to drop even the evilest of sons to his death. I am simply not sure! What would you do in this situation? Drop Henry or drop Mark? Sound off in the comments!
Also, what happens now? If Mark really thinks Susan is his reincarnated mom in his aunt’s body, does he have to move to Maine and live with her? Does she have to divorce her husband and marry David Morse, who is possibly her brother? Does Connie get a say? What would you do if you were Mark and you thought Susan was your reincarnated mother and she killed her evil son to save you? Let the juice loose in comments!
Mark closes the movie with a cryptic monologue that doesn’t really explain what happens:
“Henry’s gone and the rest of us are safe. But sometimes, late at night, I find myself thinking not about Henry but about Susan and wondering if she had it to do over, would she make the same choice? I guess I’ll always wonder, but I know I’ll never ask.”
Okey dokey! Good luck with that! Fingers crossed that stupid Ms. Davenport isn’t the only therapist in the town!!! Literally Professor Doctor Hannibal Lecter MD, PhD would be better.
Speaking of t-shirts, should I make Butt News merch featuring some of the most iconic phrases you’ve ever seen? Something to think about! Pop off in comments!
We forget that in the 90s, blondes and brunettes were legally at war but this was a good reminder.
The photograph of Richard shows him with his rubber duckie?? Was that kid just always in the bath???