Susan’s refrigerator breakdown
Henry smoking at the well
Flex pick · Chris Ryan
The adults, especially the disengaged fathers
A hockey scene for Henry
The score, the father’s unexplained Tokyo trip, Mark’s restrained response to a cruel taunt, David Morse’s absent parenting, and the abrupt lack of aftermath
Henry scores roughly eight or nine out of ten on the Hans Gruber villain scale.
The film’s line about “bombing the universe” is identified as a deliberate homage to The Shining.
Flex pick · Sean Fennessey
David Morse and cinematographer John Lindley are proposed; Lindley is chosen for repeatedly elevating the images.
Michelle Pfeiffer is favored as Susan, with Sam Shepard as Wallace and Tom Hanks as Mark’s father.
Fake cigarettes, the Minnesota cliff shoot, Culkin’s 30-foot fall and BB-gun request, the novelization, the child actors’ friendship, and the edited UK release
The absent father, adults stopping their pursuit, the cliff-death explanation, weak investigations, cousins who never met, geography, dinner without a sitter, unsafe ice, ignored weapons, absent hospital parents, and unseen witnesses
Wayne Jenkins, Fergie, Zaylo, the observed Robert Everence, and Dr. Charles Nichols are proposed; Zaylo is imagined interviewing Henry.
