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1	* EndingFatigue: First, scrapped version of the ending. It drags for almost 10 minutes of {{Padding}} to drive exactly the same point home - that the uncles' stories were true. Even the Sheik personally shows up in it, just for the sake of being there.
2	* MoralEventHorizon: Mae crosses this when she decides to [[spoiler:have Stan stay with her, even though he almost killed her own son]]. She possibly crossed it even earlier, when she allowed Stan to take Walter out to the barn. She clearly knew what was going to happen, but let it happen anyway. Mitigated a ''little'' by the following scene where [[spoiler:she relents and allows Walter to stay with his great uncles. While it by no means redeems her, it at least shows that she is aware of how terrible a mother she is and that letting Walter go is best for everyone.]]
3	** It's possible, however, that when Stan "asked" Walter for a "man-to-man talk", she went to get help, as she clearly lacked both willpower and physical power to confront Stan herself. After all, she did get into the house somehow, where she emerged from a bit later, along with Hub and Garth.
4	** Several bits were also changed from the scene as originally shot which made it clear they're deliberately scamming Walter together, as the only way we could possibly buy her HeelRealization.
5	* RetroactiveRecognition:
6	** Two of the children were played by Mitchel Musso and Jennifer Stone of Creator/DisneyChannel fame. The former would eventually star alongside Haley Joel Osment's younger sister Emily in ''Series/HannahMontana''.
7	** Viewers familiar with the world of voice acting may recognize one of the thugs in the bar fight scene as Creator/TravisWillingham, who would [[StarMakingRole shoot to fame]] as the voice of [[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist2003 Roy Mustang]] a little over year later.
8	** Fans of the [=SyFy=] Channel show ''Series/{{Haven}}'' will be pleasantly surprised to see [[Creator/EricBalfour Duke]] make an appearance at the end of the film as the Sheik's grandson.
9	* SignatureScene: When a crowd of gathered characters hear the lion at the [=McCann=] house has escaped, the next shot of them features the brothers [=McCann=], their younger male relative, and the four delinquents exiting the house, guns in tow, in perfect sequence.
10	* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Jasmine]]'s death while trying to protect Walter.
11	** Hub’s reveal of what happened to the original Jasmine- he’s so distraught by the memory that he can’t even bring himself to ''look'' at Walter when he says it.
12	-->'''Hub:''' …She died. [[DeathByChildbirth She died in childbirth.]] Her and [[DeathOfAChild the baby.]]

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