Picking Nits
Sam’s elaborate plan; Gloria’s whereabouts; drill; makeup; implausible coordination
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- The house’s parking/access and emphasized plant-watering duty raise questions; the plants may exist to keep Jake returning home but receive no clear payoff.
- The blocking tree, Jake’s departure and the disguised watcher’s conspicuous positioning depend on unexplained coordination.
- Starting with strangulation makes the drill plan unclear; the proposed safe-break-in explanation is challenged because the auger is for wood rather than metal.
- Gloria not running away and instead calling 911 with her back to the attacker is questioned.
- The highly elaborate sequence seems implausibly good for a 1984 adult film; its missing-climax complaint is compared with Boogie Nights.
- Sam’s enormous grave at a reservoir crest seems an especially implausible plan vulnerable to erosion.
- Jake misses obvious relationship and work warning signs yet rapidly solves an elaborate murder, creating inconsistent competence.
- Sam’s plan requires disguises, cars, properties and a witness who fails to recognize him; a simpler staged staircase fall is proposed instead.
- The urgent house-sitting handoff and plants depend on Sam finding a suitable replacement, although he has overheard Jake seeking housing.
- Gloria’s whereabouts during Holly’s nightly bedroom performance are unexplained, with beach-house or social-life guesses.
- Jake carrying Gloria’s underwear for roughly ten hours despite going home is noted, alongside his nearly unchanged outfit.
- News coverage of Gloria’s murder should expose her husband’s face to Jake or fellow acting students, undermining Sam’s disguise-based scheme.
- Jake immediately becoming a leading adult performer is questioned, but prolific production and his audition experience are offered as reasons it could happen.
- Sam apparently applies a disguise alone that reportedly took the real production three and a half hours daily.
- Hiring a famous adult star for the deception seems riskier than an unknown dancer, though Holly’s physical resemblance to Gloria is the explanation.
- Sam bringing the dog everywhere causes his demise and seems avoidable.