Why leave the Penthouse?

Rating: Null/10 (17 June 2004)

1. Someone explain the rationale of ever setting foot outside the NY Penthouse? Fireplace, stocked bar, security at the front door (homeless and dog subplot done away with), and surely plenty of fur coats and cashmere. How quickly they abandoned the comfort of the rooftop Penthouse only to transform themselves into the cast of "Fiddler." Event the Fiddler knew where his place was.
2. Exactly, what was the point of Dad getting to New York? He can hardly see to it that his son gets to the airport but pulls out the snowshoes to make his way from Philly to Manhattan? And carries someone for the last few hours---what? as a meal?
3. The cancer victim had out sympathy--but it should have been pointed out that as bad as it is for a kid to have cancer, it's worse to be a kid with cancer during an ensuing ice age. More painful, is to be cast as a kid with cancer in a movie of this caliber, only to realize you're one of the survivors.