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* BlackSheep: Ronnie's estranged son, who shows up late to his mother's funeral and immediately starts causing problems.
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* BrutalHonesty: When Mary talks about her former lover, a married man whom she describes as the love of her life, Tom points out to her, "Sounds like a duplicitous shit." Even Gerri is taken aback.
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* TooMuchInformation: When Mary is talking about her former lover and describing how sexy he was, Tom growls, "Too much information!"
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A 2010 film directed by Creator/MikeLeigh. It looks at a year in the life of Tom and Gerri, a HappilyMarried elderly couple working and living in London; they garden, they work, they feed their friends and they're in love. Throughout the film we're introduced to the people around them. Single-and-looking Mary, who works at Gerri's office; their activist lawyer son Joe, who has yet to settle down, their old friend Ken, Tom's brother and widower Ronnie.
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A 2010 film directed by Creator/MikeLeigh. It looks at a year in the life of Tom and Gerri, a HappilyMarried elderly couple working and living in London; they garden, they work, they feed their friends and they're in love. Throughout the film we're introduced to the people around them. Single-and-looking Mary, Mary (Creator/LesleyManville), who works at Gerri's office; their activist lawyer son Joe, who has yet to settle down, their old friend Ken, Tom's brother and widower Ronnie.
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* OneSceneWonder: Imelda Staunton only appears in the opening scene as a deeply unhappy woman seeking Gerri's help (Gerri is a counselor) for her insomnia.
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* ButtMonkey: Mary can ''never'' catch a break. Though she causes plenty of problems for herself, she nevertheless constantly finds herself treated rudely wherever she goes or otherwise finding trouble. Look no further than her attempt at a summer holiday to Brighton, which ends poorly when her cheap car breaks down on the way there and she's groped by the tow truck driver who ends up taking her to a town she loathes.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer:
** Ken is interested in Mary, and Tom and Gerri try to push them together, but Mary finds him unattractive and annoying and is openly irritated when he tries to make a move on her in the car.
** In turn, Mary is this to the much younger Joe, who clearly views her as an aunt figure (much to her distress) and is put off when she tries to get closer to him.
** Ken is interested in Mary, and Tom and Gerri try to push them together, but Mary finds him unattractive and annoying and is openly irritated when he tries to make a move on her in the car.
** In turn, Mary is this to the much younger Joe, who clearly views her as an aunt figure (much to her distress) and is put off when she tries to get closer to him.
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* BlackSheep: Ronnie's estranged son.
* CoolOldGuy: Tom, the guy part of the main couple.
* CoolOldLady: Gerri.
* CoolOldGuy: Tom, the guy part of the main couple.
* CoolOldLady: Gerri.
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* BlackSheep: Ronnie's estranged son.
son, who shows up late to his mother's funeral and immediately starts causing problems.
*CoolOldGuy: Tom, DownerEnding: The film ends with a miserable and lonely Mary, still single and alcoholic, looking away distantly at as the guy part of the main couple.
company around her (who tolerate her at best and disrespect her at worst) enjoy a lively conversation without her.
*CoolOldLady: Gerri.TheEeyore: Downplayed. Mary isn't so depressing that she has a cloud hanging over her head, but she complains openly about how miserable her life is, despite it making people around her uncomfortable.
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* GenkiGirl: Katie, to the nth degree.
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri, very much so.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Mary
* MrsRobinson: Mary tries to start a relationship with Joe, but he's made uncomfortable by her flirting.
* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is concerned with her age and fears becoming an Old Maid might be in her future.
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri, very much so.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Mary
* MrsRobinson: Mary tries to start a relationship with Joe, but he's made uncomfortable by her flirting.
* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is concerned with her age and fears becoming an Old Maid might be in her future.
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* GenkiGirl: Katie, to the nth degree. Mary's bad attitude does little to put her off, and she's always talkative and in an upbeat mood.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mary is bitterly jealous when Joe arrives with a new girlfriend (and having ignored her invitations to connect) and spends the evening snapping back at her polite questions -- though not entirely unjustified, as Katie is subtly elitist by immediately assuming Mary is nothing more than a secretary (which is true).
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri are a perfectly happy and relaxed older couple.
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri, very much so.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Mary
Mary, who is never far from a glass of wine and who still [[TheAlcoholic passes out with her shoes on]].
*MrsRobinson: MotorMouth: Mary tries is chatty to start a relationship with Joe, the point of exhaustion, but he's made uncomfortable by never seems to realize when she's talking too much.
* NoAntagonist: The characters themselves tend to be their own worst enemies.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Mary looks and dresses younger for herflirting.
age, and complains that men are attracted to her because they think she is younger than she is and are turned off when they discover her true age.
* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is concerned with her age andfears becoming reveals that she regrets never having kids, having been hung up on a married man she had an Old Maid might be in her future.affair with years ago.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mary is bitterly jealous when Joe arrives with a new girlfriend (and having ignored her invitations to connect) and spends the evening snapping back at her polite questions -- though not entirely unjustified, as Katie is subtly elitist by immediately assuming Mary is nothing more than a secretary (which is true).
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri are a perfectly happy and relaxed older couple.
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* NoAntagonist: The characters themselves tend to be their own worst enemies.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Mary looks and dresses younger for her
* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is concerned with her age and
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* TheQuietOne: Ronnie
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* TheQuietOne: Ronnie
Ronnie is very taciturn, and his quiet nature allows a lonely and depressed Mary to open up to him about her disappointments in life.
*SliceOfLifeSliceOfLife: A leisurely-paced exploration of a married couple and their less-than-stable friends.
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* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is concered with her age and fears becoming an Old Maid might be in her future.
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* MrsRobinson: Mary tries to start a relationship with Joe, but he's made uncomfortable by her flirting.
* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, isconcered concerned with her age and fears becoming an Old Maid might be in her future.future.
* OneSceneWonder: Imelda Staunton only appears in the opening scene as a deeply unhappy woman seeking Gerri's help (Gerri is a counselor) for her insomnia.
* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is
* OneSceneWonder: Imelda Staunton only appears in the opening scene as a deeply unhappy woman seeking Gerri's help (Gerri is a counselor) for her insomnia.
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* AndStarring: Imelda Staunton get this, although she only appears for about five minutes in the beginning.
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* AndStarring: Imelda Staunton Creator/ImeldaStaunton get this, although she only appears for about five minutes in the beginning.
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A 2010 film directed by Mike Leigh. It looks at a year in the life of Tom and Gerri, a HappilyMarried elderly couple working and living in London; they garden, they work, they feed their friends and they're in love. Throughout the film we're introduced to the people around them. Single-and-looking Mary, who works at Gerri's office; their activist lawyer son Joe, who has yet to settle down, their old friend Ken, Tom's brother and widower Ronnie.
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A 2010 film directed by Mike Leigh.Creator/MikeLeigh. It looks at a year in the life of Tom and Gerri, a HappilyMarried elderly couple working and living in London; they garden, they work, they feed their friends and they're in love. Throughout the film we're introduced to the people around them. Single-and-looking Mary, who works at Gerri's office; their activist lawyer son Joe, who has yet to settle down, their old friend Ken, Tom's brother and widower Ronnie.
Ronnie.
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* ChristmasCake: Mary.
* CoolOldGuy / CoolOldLady: Why, the main couple.
* CoolOldGuy / CoolOldLady: Why, the main couple.
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* ChristmasCake: Mary.
CoolOldGuy: Tom, the guy part of the main couple.
*CoolOldGuy / CoolOldLady: Why, the main couple. Gerri.
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* OldMaid: Mary, single and looking for a guy, is concered with her age and fears becoming an Old Maid might be in her future.
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* PunnyName: Tom and Gerri. They gladly acknowledge this.
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* BottleFairy: Mary
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* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Mary
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A 2010 film directed by Mike Leigh. It looks at a year in the life of Tom and Gerri, a HappilyMarried elderly couple working and living in London; they garden, they work, they feed their friends and they're in love. Throughout the film we're introduced to the people around them. Single-and-looking Mary, who works at Gerri's office; their activist lawyer son Joe, who has yet to settle down, their old friend Ken, Tom's brother and widower Ronnie.
It's a very slow-paced, conflict-free SliceOfLife film, that makes use of incredible acting, natural dialogue, wonderful writing and subtly dark humour to carry the itself.
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* AndStarring: Imelda Staunton get this, although she only appears for about five minutes in the beginning.
* BlackSheep: Ronnie's estranged son.
* BottleFairy: Mary
* ChristmasCake: Mary.
* CoolOldGuy / CoolOldLady: Why, the main couple.
* ExpospeakGag: Tom, Gerri, Joe and Katie talking about Tom's work.
* {{Foil}}: Mary's single, and her desperate attempts at joy is a harsh contrast to Tom and Gerri's easy happy life.
* GenkiGirl: Katie, to the nth degree.
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri, very much so.
* TheQuietOne: Ronnie
* SliceOfLife
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It's a very slow-paced, conflict-free SliceOfLife film, that makes use of incredible acting, natural dialogue, wonderful writing and subtly dark humour to carry the itself.
!!This work provides examples of:
* AndStarring: Imelda Staunton get this, although she only appears for about five minutes in the beginning.
* BlackSheep: Ronnie's estranged son.
* BottleFairy: Mary
* ChristmasCake: Mary.
* CoolOldGuy / CoolOldLady: Why, the main couple.
* ExpospeakGag: Tom, Gerri, Joe and Katie talking about Tom's work.
* {{Foil}}: Mary's single, and her desperate attempts at joy is a harsh contrast to Tom and Gerri's easy happy life.
* GenkiGirl: Katie, to the nth degree.
* HappilyMarried: Tom and Gerri, very much so.
* TheQuietOne: Ronnie
* SliceOfLife
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