The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days (2010)

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Corrected entry: After John makes the decision to leave their son behind (with his parents) in order to make their escape, Lara attempts to kill herself by jumping out of the SUV. It is nearly impossible to open a vehicle door while the vehicle is moving faster than say 20-30 mph because of the wind resistance. They are cruising at highway speed, yet she simply flings the door open with ease.

Correction: At 20 to 30 mph, I can open my car door easily. At highway speed it is more difficult, but it can be done, especially if you get a burst of adrenalin.

rswarrior

Corrected entry: When John starts following the medical van for the first time, you see the van from the front as it turns onto the road where John awaits it in his car. The van's number plate is missing.

Correction: Aside from the fact a license plate can fall off or be stolen any time, Pennsylvania doesn't issue or require front license plates since 1999.

rswarrior

Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, Lara uses a very large syringe to inject a huge (and likely harmful) dose of insulin. Insulin is used in very small doses typically from a small syringe, so if using a large syringe, the plunger would barely be pulled back.

Correction: The type of insulin syringe Lara used is called an "insulin pen". These are very common among insulin dependent diabetics. Also, if she was a very brittle diabetic, she could require a larger dose of fast acting insulin or she could have been taking a long-acting insulin, which is typically a large dose.

Corrected entry: In the scene where John and Lara and their son are at the airport and seem to be headed for some destination (ergo leaving the United States), they are going through what seems to be U.S. immigration. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't U.S. immigration come into the picture when you are entering the country? The people that would be looking at passports upon exit are airline people.

Correction: Have you ever traveled anywhere overseas? Passports are checked on the way out and on the way in for every country. Well the ones I have been to and I have been to well over a dozen. Most of these even made me fill out an exit card. Immigration would be responsible for that.

XIII

Factual error: In the scene when they are leaving the Pittsburgh Zoo, the sign indicates to turn right for Interstate 79. However Intestate 79 is about 15 miles to the west of the zoo. Also, it is suggested that Interstate 79 is the turnpike (a tolled road), when actually Interstate 76 is the turnpike and Interstate 79 is not tolled.

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Answer: John planted fake blood work for Laura indicating that she had hyperkalemia (increased potassium levels), a condition that is potentially fatal. She would need to be transferred to a hospital to be treated.

raywest

If Laura was was suffering from hyperkalemia, wouldn't the jail doctor have reported it before John planted the fake blood work?

She wasn't actually suffering from it. John had planted the fake medical report that the doctor presumably then read and acted upon by arranging for her to be transferred to the hospital.

raywest

I doubt the jail's doctor would be fooled by the fake medical report since Laura wasn't showing any obvious physical symptoms.

Many medical conditions do not show physical symptoms early on, but are detectable with tests. For example, people live with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, brain tumors, etc. for some years before experiencing any physical effects. The doctor read the results of Laura's blood test, and, as was standard procedure, had her admitted to the hospital, presumably for additional testing that could not be performed within a prison setting. Also, after some additional reading on the subject: hyperkalemia often has no early symptoms. Later symptoms are flu-like-such as muscle aches, physical weakness, nausea, fatigue, etc. That may be why John chose that particular condition, and it is something Laura could easily have faked.

raywest

I still think the jail's doctor would get suspicious since blood test results are not monitored and delivered to a county jail by an outside lab.

Suspicious or not, he would act in the patient's best interests. If the hospital blood tests come back negative, then he doesn't have a problem. If Laura dies in his care from an easily treatable condition which he knew about, it's goodbye career and hello huge malpractice suit. He would be fully conversant with the procedures used while transferring prisoners to local hospitals, including the very close security put in place, and he has no reason to think that someone is putting this incredibly elaborate escape plan into effect.

Speaking of a prisoner being transferred to a hospital, does that happen very often?

But don't jails, and prisons tend to keep a prisoners hospitalization a secret?

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