It also provides less opportunities for reveling in the daily travails of the valley girl lifestyle. Instead, it gives us an attention-starved teenager who simply wants her father to treat her with more love and care. She simply wants to hear him say that she is the most important thing in his life. She has visions of being reunited with her loving father as he embraces her and tells her how incredibly important she is to him. Alicia Silverstone and Benicio Del Toro in a publicity still for Excess Baggage.
Every deal is important.
He has no patience for a daughter who distracts him from his work. So Emily calls her father while disguising her voice, outlines the ransom demands, and tells him where she can be found. But from then on the movie becomes more and more ordinary and predictable. Vincent and Emily initially hate one another but eventually their love starts to grow. There's not much suspense in that plot.