Picking Nits
Kitchen fight within the kids' earshot; no babysitting chance; no alias planned; Brosnan's character choosing a divorced mom; college breakup; her hair and clothes; kids watching Dick Van Dyke
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- No divorcing parents would fight in the kitchen where the kids can overhear; you always go in the car.
- She should have given the dad one more chance to babysit from three to seven before hiring the maid.
- Daniel had no name planned when calling about the job and took Doubtfire from the newspaper; he could have come up with Evelyn.
- Counter: Daniel is established as disorganized and not thinking ahead, though a more concrete strategy would help.
- Would Brosnan's character really settle on a divorced mom with three kids? They are meant to have dated in college, with her dumping him, itself a nit; maybe he is putting away the bachelor lifestyle.
- He probably realized over an expensive brown drink that he needed the one woman who loved him before he was rich and handsome.
- Her hair and clothes are atrocious; the reply places the bob in early-90s working-woman style in line with the Nora F Ron and Nancy Myers yuppie look.
- Kids watching Dick Van Dyke is implausible for a 14-year-old; pushback cites Nick at Night, where Mork & Mindy was seen, plus Green Acres and Mr. Ed.