James L. Brooks

But that spirit, that screwball comedy, and then how do you do screwball comedy and clock the laughs and put meat on the bone so that you're really dealing with some of the...

crap that we go through and that can do us in and we're not careful yes and try and combine those two things which is what the picture is because you're not telling the truth unless you show that part of life is a little tough and i love screwball comedy stay tuned for more armchair expert if you dare

He's being fired because he has slept with several co-workers and is being confronted by a 16-year-old daughter.

The first line is, wait, because everybody's packing up, moving on, pretending it doesn't happen.

We're going to acknowledge the reality of this.

And as he points out, all three women sent letters of support.

Yes.

And it's a little messier than that because her mother, who still loves him despite all, knows that her daughter and him will never get along and will always be that kind of chaos and still loves the guy.

So sort of urges so that Emma's character is abandoned and made to feel abandoning almost.

father's name okay so yeah so you're aware i'm blushing now so many hollywood pictures end with forgiveness being the answer and if forgiveness is always the answer forgiveness is meaningless something has to be unforgivable there's got to be an unforgivable forgiveness to mean anything oh that's a good point and it's really the question to be relative to something yeah and i'm sort of reactionary to every movie ending with forgive you and that's the answer in life yeah especially since i don't know that i forgive my father did unforgivable things yeah

Unforgivable has to exist.

Yeah, right, right, right.

But they have to be forgivable.

Absolutely.

And I had aunts that were very giving to me.

And there's an aunt in this picture played by Jamie Lee.

And Jamie Lee, her humanity to just be around.

And I think she kicks it out of the park.

Two women who've been through everything together who love the ass off each other.

She's kind of her reality check.