John: Honey, why don’t you let us take a walk? It’s a’ight.Īnd so, Caleb and John head out for a walk, while Cheryl stays behind, alone, in Caleb and Catherine’s house.
I want to know what’s going on with him.Ĭaleb: Dad, could I please have a few minutes to talk with you? Alone?Ĭheryl: Caleb, I just want to help you and Catherine-Ĭaleb: *world’s most long-suffering look* Dad? John: Cheryl, Cheryl, let’s hear Caleb out. Doesn’t she help her parents out every week? She can’t do everything around here.Ĭaleb: Now you sound like you’re taking her side.Ĭheryl: Caleb, she’s working every day, and she’s trying–Ĭaleb: Mom, I do not need you telling me I’m doing everything wrong! I’ve got Catherine for that! I am not the problem she is. Later, Caleb’s parents, Cheryl and John, visit while Catherine is out, and we really get to the heart of the issue.Ĭaleb: I mean, I walk in the door, and she’s mad about something.Ĭheryl: Have you given her a reason to be upset? I’ve never known Catherine to be unreasonable.Ĭaleb: I could have saved the lives of two people at work, and if I’m not here helping wash the dishes, I’m a horrible husband.Ĭheryl: But, Caleb, she needs your help here as well. The girls (of course it’s the girls don’t be silly) get their car stuck on the train tracks, and both are too injured to move.Ĭue Caleb and his fire crew to the rescue, I guess to prove that he really is a rockin’ hero when he’s not terrorizing his wife. The next day, two cars of teens (two boys in one car, two girls in the other) flirtatiously drag race to the local pizza joint…with predictably disastrous results. (Catherine never does bring up the whole driving-her-into-a-corner incident. Sigh.Ĭaleb once again brings up the “R” word, and (as Catherine simultaneously predicts in the cut) opines that the marriage has been just fine for the last year or so, until Catherine “went off the deep end.” Being a woman, Catherine is, of course, “ emotional about everything” and “ way too sensitive.” (Cut to Catherine crying into her ice water over Caleb’s insensitivity.) Catherine declines, because “ he’s the problem, not me.” Which I suppose is the movie’s way of telling us that the scene we saw of the yelling and bullying couldn’t possibly be abuse, could it? Because Catherine isn’t afraid to live in the same house as Caleb. Just to show how unbiblical the girlfriends are, they even offer Catherine a place to stay until the divorce is finalized.
The next evening, we get a scene cutting back and forth between Caleb bitching at his coworker about Catherine, and Catherine commiserating with her girlfriends over dinner.
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