When Cage meets his daughter and takes her to the diner to eat, the amount mayonnaise on her lip changes in every shot change. See more...
Alison Lohman, who plays Nicolas Cage's teenage (14) daughter, is actually 24. See more...
Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Alison Lohman, Beth Grant, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill, Jenny O'Hara, Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Steve Eastin (add more)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller
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Why does Nicholas Cage keep doing things 3 times? He opens the door, unlocks it, and a few other things three times. [His character has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The primary trait of OCD is that you do things over and over, often for a set amount of times.]
Answered by Xofer
Why does Roy say pygmies? [He likes to blame non-existant pygmies for bad things that happen.]
Answered by Myridon
I didn't quite understand the ending. Was Angela fooling Roy the whole time, or did she decide to after she met him? Were Frank and Angela working together? [Angela was working with Frank the whole time, she wasn't actually his daughter. Roy's shrink (Dr. Klein) & Chuck Frechette (the money laundering guy) were in on the con as well.]
What age is Angela supposed to be in the film? [14.]
How can Roy possibly be a smoker? He has OCD and is constantly cleaning the smallest of messes. The ashtray in his car was overflowing with butts. [OCD isn't about cleanliness, it's about obsession and compulsion (hence the name). Cleaning could be a compulsion in this case, though smoking could be as well (and probably is, with the amount of butts in the ashtray). If that's the case then the cleaning probably wouldn't apply to the ashtray, since all he'd be doing is smoking and cleaning it, which would limit his actions even further. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the basics.]
Answered by Xofer
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