In the scene where Mike's mom Karen enjoys a bubble bath, the movie's theme song, Barbra Streisand's classic "The Way We Were," plays. The book Karen is reading is Johanna Lindsey's romance novel <Heart of Thunder>, which was popular in the 1980s. The novel she was reading by the pool was <Thunder Is the Storm>. This reveals the psychology of Karen, who wants to escape reality and become the protagonist of a romance. Karen goes on to show the most dramatic transformation of any character in the series.