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Because she has no relatives in this country, Oksana turned to those of Scott, Chloe's father. "We didn't have much of a relationship," says Scott's mother Deb, who doesn't want her last name used either. "I was very angry about the drug stuff. It affected a lot of people." But Deb, despite her misgivings about Scott and Oksana, had visited Chloe in the hospital and agreed to be a part of the effort to keep her granddaughter safe...
...express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest, a deb ball and the main boy's participation in a heist. (You don't see these movies for the plots...
...DEB SLATER -- Yellow Springs, Ohio...
...John and Flor join hearts across the border. Oh, that happens here, with dollops of the rueful, self-aware wit that is Brooks' unique gift; nobody else writes jokes with such acute ethical shading. But there's a tarantula on the angel-food cake: John's manic wife Deb (Téa Leoni). Deb is Brooks' first real villain, a character everyone in the film can reject. Leoni, investing an awful energy in her role, puts the pang in Spanglish and throws it out of whack...
That may be a cue to the viewer that this is not a romantic triangle but a story of the complex love between parents and their kids. Deb could be the dread force of nature that helps unite the other people in the pained, needy, nearly always forgiving world of Jim Brooks...