american reunion - How did Jim's mom die? - Movies & TV

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In href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1605630/">American Reunion (2012), we
learn that Jim's mom is dead. Is there any info or clue in the movie about how she
died?

Answer

Director/writer Jon
Hurwitz explains "why" (but not
"how") Jim's mom died href="http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/04/interview-american-reunion-directors-jon-hurwitz-hayden-schlossberg/page/3">in
this interview:

The first decision that we made literally was to kill off Jim’s
mom. And we liked that for two reasons.

• One, we
  liked how that matured the franchise in a certain way, where it’s not just about sex and
  losing your virginity and the smaller things in life you see in the
  earlier films;

  
  
  

  When you get to
  be in your 30s, some serious things can happen to you, and we wanted to
  explore that with a relationship that you know and love.

  
  
  
  

  Jim and his father have always had this relationship where his dad
  is giving him advice and helping him along in life, and when you reach your 30s, you no
  longer see your parents as just “mom” and “dad”—you see them as actual, real people. You
  start giving them advice, and we loved that role
  reversal.




• The second thing we loved
  about it was the ability to, by making Jim’s dad single, unleash him into
  the world in a whole different kind of way.

  
  
  
  

  Instead of just staying inside the house, he’s able to go to the
  party and mix it up. We were able to pair Jim’s dad with Stifler’s mom; [...] It was too
  tempting not to have Jim’s dad and Stifler’s mom get together on screen and see what
  kind of magic we could have.