# A question about "Kidnap"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 5, 2017, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824 "2017-08-05T04:30:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824/22 "2017-08-08T18:55:48Z")

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I can’t point to a specific issue or anything, but I’ve always had it in my head that May was Peter’s great-aunt. Not trying to fanwank her appearance — I think that back in the early to mid-1960s, she was (at least sometimes) referred to that way in the comic books.

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**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824/23 "2017-08-08T20:43:52Z")

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One thing is dead ass certain, Halle has no clue how to pick movie roles. Well, unless she uses the Caine/Walken Method, which I can’t fault.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824/24 "2017-08-08T22:39:57Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> I agree, Ms. Berry looks MUCH younger than 50.

Wish her a Happy Birthday if you see her next Monday. She’ll be fifty-one.

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**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824/25 "2017-08-09T17:11:46Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> :eek: How many kids did your grandmother have?

She had 12 pregnancies, but she lost two so I had ten aunts and uncles. My mother was her second child and **hated** the enormous spread of ages among her siblings, which is why her kids are all less than a year apart - she was basically pregnant for 5 years straight with us.

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**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2017, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-kidnap/792824/26 "2017-08-09T20:32:31Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> It’s a new action thriller. Halle Berry plays a mother whose son is kidnapped and she’s trying to rescue him. I’ve seen the trailer but not the movie.
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> Here’s my nitpick. Berry is fifty years old. She’s playing the mother of a six-year-old in this movie. (Sage Correa, who’s playing the son, is actually nine years old.) Now this isn’t impossible. In fact, in real life, Berry has a four-year-old and a nine-year-old. But most fifty year old women do not have a six year old child. Berry’s age would make it more plausible that her character has a six year old grandchild.
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> I’m just wondering if this age factor gets acknowledged in the movie or is it ignored because Hollywood.

I would suggest that ‘heroic grandmother hunts down her grandchild’ has a different vibe to ‘heroic mother rescues child’.

Hollywood rarely favours the old.

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