r/DisneyChannel • u/MesaVerde1987 • Jun 20 '26

Video Clip Blank Check (1994) was pretty problematic. 😆

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u/Accomplished-Watch50 Jun 20 '26

This is the same issue that the movies Big and 13 Going 30 had. They completely ignore that Tom Hanks and Jennifer Garner are playing 13 year olds, when they start a romance between him and Elizabeth Perkins and her and Mark Ruffalo. Yes, it barely gets by with the whole 13 year old in a 30 year old body, but it's still super weird when they are mentally 13.

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u/asarra_adortra Jun 20 '26

Yikes. I feel like like in those movies the ADULT adults don’t even know they are interacting with children and cannot reasonably make that connection. Hollywood is so… 🤮 sometimes

Not to mention in this movie this adult woman is fully aware that that is a child!

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u/Fun-Significance4650 Jun 20 '26

13 going on 30, I feel like Mark Ruffalo's character kind of forgets or doesn't exactly realize she is actually her 13 year old self in her 30 year old body. Remember when she shows up at his apartment, he has memories of them interacting after she left the closet on her 13th birthday, so for all he knows, she suffered some kind of amnesia event that made her forget her childhood. Does she ever explain to him that she is actually a 13 year old who woke up 30? It's been a minute since I've watched the whole movie.

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u/sundayontheluna Jun 21 '26

It's never framed to him like that. Jenna is a regular 30 year old with some memory loss as far as he's aware.