12 Pointless Subplots In Otherwise Awesome Movies

3. Lauren's Suicide Attempt - Heat

Heat is an undeniable epic crime classic with one of the best casts ever assembled, but it's also excessively long at 170 minutes, and the most blatant narrative bloat comes from the attempted suicide of Lt. Hanna's (Al Pacino) depressed step-daughter Lauren (Natalie Portman).

It's hard to argue that Hanna rescuing Lauren is necessary character development, because she's such an insignificant part of such a huge, sprawling movie, there's only the most perfunctory build-up to the moment and it's not even really Hanna's problem (she's depressed about her biological parents' divorce).

It's nowhere near developed enough to be a valuable piece of character building on either part and just feels like melodramatic fat that certainly should've been trimmed from the final cut.