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Laura Dern is sure robbing the cradle

posted 9 years ago by nightfly-7
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Laura Dern (age 48) plays Andrew Garfield's(Age 32) wife.

Not saying there's anything wrong with that. It was just confusing in the trailer. I thought she was his mom at first.

[–] rindercella 9 years ago

She's his mother, but even if she was his wife, who cares. They would both be adults.

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[–] nightfly-7 9 years ago

I said there's nothing wrong with that. But now that I know she's his Mom-so that means he's a 32 year old loser living at home or she's a 48 year old who has to crash at her son's house. No wonder they have their a#*es thrown out in the street. Dumb movie. Like another post said-PAY YOUR BILLS!

[–] spaceman88 9 years ago

Wow, talk about someone sounding like he/she got up on the wrong side of the bed!

[–] nightfly-7 9 years ago

Ha! Yeah, switching to decaf.

[–] caligirlbr323 9 years ago

Well, he was a single father with a little boy. It was cool that he could live with his Mom, better to have a Grandma help raise a child than babysitters!

[–] dini0519 9 years ago

I think this could work in a temporary situation only. Think about it. The son and mom would both very likely get into a marriage or romantic relationship eventually and that would not work with them all living together, but while the grandson is small it could be a really good arrangement.
Dini

[–] at7000 8 years ago

Or they could have decided to live together incestuously like in some Freudian fantasy.

[–] transmentalist 8 years ago

Or they could have decided to live together incestuously like in some Freudian fantasy.

Sick Sick Sick ... though if one's mother looked like Laura Dern (even here, where she was trying unsuccessfully to look frumpy) ...

[–] wldsthrnboy 9 years ago

Actually, she is a mother who lost her husband and her son tries to keep her and his own son in the family home. No losers in the film at all.

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[–] jeanpirise 9 years ago

Piece of sheit

Oh what a day. What a lovely day!

[–] marx686 8 years ago

It was the family home that Garfield grew up in.

[–] I_have_a_brain_cloud 9 years ago

Weird thread. If Laura Dern is supposed to be playing her actual age, that would have made her character a mother at 16--not all that unusual in our society. I never thought that she was supposed to be his wife--did anybody who actually watched the movie think this?

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[–] walkingf00l 9 years ago

I just thought it was bad casting. They threw in one or two lines at the beginning of the film to address the closeness in age, but after that ignored the issue. I think it would have been much better if they had someone play the mother at a more appropriate age... not to mention Laura Dern still has a fairly youthful quality.

[–] at7000 8 years ago

Roseanne Barr would have made a great mom.

[–] noveltylibrary 8 years ago

lol

[–] hermanotorres 9 years ago

Apparently you didn't watch the movie because she does play his mother. But I'm guessing you never make a comment the many times men play the love interests of women with similar & greater age differences.

[–] long-chrislong 9 years ago

Wow - you are really that dumb?

[–] vhavnal 8 years ago

I think the odd part was when the sheriffs entered their house, the short fat sheriff automatically 'assumed' that she was his mother..If i was a sheriff in that situation, I would have thought differently..

[–] marx686 8 years ago

If you paid attention, you would know Dern was his mother. His wife/GF was long gone.