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* InterclassRomance: The rich, Harvard-bound Christian's girlfriend Rachel is a working-class cosmetics seller.
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* InterclassRomance: The rich, Harvard-bound Christian's girlfriend Rachel is a working-class cosmetics seller. The fact that Christian is very clearly ''mestizo'' (mixed Filipino and, in his case, White) from his Anglo surname Carlson to his looks and Rachel is a brown-skinned Filipino woman with no visible/known foreign heritage adds another dimension to it.
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* IncompatibleOrientation: [[spoiler:Erik identifies as straight, but propositions Victor to secure a better grade. Victor turns him down because it's unethical and sleazy, but admits that he ''is'' attracted to Erik and wouldn't say no if Erik asked him out again post-graduation. Though he's straight, Erik is flattered.]]
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* StudentTeacherRomance: Defied by [[spoiler:Victor. Erik is exactly his type, but it's unethical and against his personal principles to have sex with a student. That said, he tells Erik he'd go out with him if he asked again post-graduation.]]
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* StudentTeacherRomance: Defied by [[spoiler:Victor. He admits that Erik is exactly his type, but it's unethical and against his personal principles to have sex with a student. That said, he tells Erik he'd go out with him if he asked again post-graduation.]]
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* MostGamersAreMale: The opening scene is of the four friends playing an MMORPG in an Internet café together. All of the players in the Internet café are men.
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* MostGamersAreMale: The opening scene is Most of the four friends playing an MMORPG in an Internet café together. All of the players shown are men, although there are a few women in the Internet café are men.background.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Christian becomes this to Rachel, to the point that she tells him he should've gotten an electric fan instead.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Christian becomes this to Rachel, to the point Rachel. When she calls him out, he says that he needs her to provide comfort, and she tells him he should've gotten an electric fan instead.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Christian becomes this to Rachel, to the point that she tells him he should've gotten an electric fan instead.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: When Torran asks Alice how their sexual encounter was, we get this exchange:
-->'''Alice''': Average. Average to slightly above-average.
-->'''Torran''': ...Thanks?
-->'''Alice''': Average. Average to slightly above-average.
-->'''Torran''': ...Thanks?
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* InterclassRomance: The rich, Harvard-bound Christian's girlfriend is a working-class cosmetics seller.
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* InterclassRomance: The rich, Harvard-bound Christian's girlfriend Rachel is a working-class cosmetics seller.
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* SexForService: A desperate Erik propositions [[spoiler:Victor]] for this reason, [[spoiler:even though Erik is straight.]]
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* SexForService: SexForServices: A desperate Erik propositions [[spoiler:Victor]] for this reason, in hopes of securing a better grade, [[spoiler:even though Erik is straight.]]
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* SexForService: A desperate Erik propositions [[spoiler:Victor]] for this reason, [[spoiler:even though Erik is straight.]]
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* StraightGay: Victor acts "straight" enough that most of his students don't assume he's gay, although the main group of friends catch on quickly. They do, however, wrongly believe that he has a crush on Erik. [[spoiler:Victor, disguised as their classmate, is actually just observing his students.]]
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* StraightGay: Victor acts "straight" enough that most of his students don't assume he's gay, although the main group of friends catch on quickly. They do, however, wrongly believe that he has a crush on Erik. [[spoiler:Victor, [[spoiler:Subverted. Victor, disguised as their classmate, is actually just observing his students.]] [[spoiler:Double Subverted when it turns out that Victor ''is'' attracted to Erik, but won't sleep with him because he's his student.]]
* StudentTeacherRomance: Defied by [[spoiler:Victor. Erik is exactly his type, but it's unethical and against his personal principles to have sex with a student. That said, he tells Erik he'd go out with him if he asked again post-graduation.]]
* StudentTeacherRomance: Defied by [[spoiler:Victor. Erik is exactly his type, but it's unethical and against his personal principles to have sex with a student. That said, he tells Erik he'd go out with him if he asked again post-graduation.]]
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Played for laughs. Torran's mother doesn't seem to realize how insensitive she's being when she celebrates Torran being her first and only child who's shaping up to be successful in life. His sister sarcastically says "Wow" because his siblings are ''right there'' as she's essentially calling them losers, and she thinks her daughter's merely celebrating with her.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Played for laughs. Torran's mother doesn't seem to realize how insensitive she's being when she celebrates Torran being her first and only child who's shaping up to be successful in life. His sister sarcastically says "Wow" because she and his other siblings are ''right there'' as she's essentially calling them losers, and she thinks her daughter's merely celebrating with her.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: Played for laughs. Torran's mother doesn't seem to realize how insensitive she's being when she celebrates Torran being her first and only child who's shaping up to be successful in life. His sister sarcastically says "Wow" because his siblings are ''right there'' as she's essentially calling them losers, and she thinks her daughter's merely celebrating with her.
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It stars Rocco Nacino (as Torran Garcia), Carlo Aquino (as Erik Vicencio), Enzo Pineda (as Christian Carlson), and Kean Cipriano (as Joshua Zuñiga) as a tight-knit group of friends going through law school.
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It stars Rocco Nacino (as Torran Garcia), Carlo Aquino (as Erik Vicencio), Rocco Nacino (as Torran Garcia), Enzo Pineda (as Christian Carlson), and Kean Cipriano (as Joshua Zuñiga) as a tight-knit group of friends going through law school.
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* WorkingClassHero: Erik is ultimately the star among the four friends. He's also the most disadvantaged one. Apart from being poor, he notes that he has a weak memory and isn't proficient in English (the language of instruction in Philippine law schools), unlike Christian.
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* PhotographicMemory: Torran claims that he remembers everything. His performance in law school proves that, at the very least, he really does have an excellent memory.
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* InterclassRomance: The rich, Harvard-bound Christian's girlfriend is a working-class saleswoman.
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* InterclassRomance: The rich, Harvard-bound Christian's girlfriend is a working-class saleswoman.cosmetics seller.
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* MostGamersAreMale: The opening scene is of the four friends playing an MMORPG in an Internet café together. All of the players in the Internet café are men.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: To some extent, all of the main four friends are this. Christian probably has the worst case, though. His mother died giving birth to him and his father won't hesitate to remind him every time he tries to do something that displeases him, so he feels like he can't argue with what his father wants, ''ever.''
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Invoked. There's a disclaimer at the beginning about how everything shown in the film is purely fictitious and that law schools don't operate exactly as they're depicted... so ''please'' don't sue them.
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* UnfortunateNames: Victor remarks that Torran Garcia is an ugly name.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Invoked. There's a disclaimer at the beginning about how everything shown in the film is purely fictitious and that law schools don't operate exactly as they're depicted... so ''please'' don't sue them.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Invoked. There's a disclaimer at the beginning about how everything shown in the film is purely fictitious and that law schools don't operate exactly as they're depicted... so ''please'' don't sue them.
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Oebanda has uploaded the full film, with English subtitles, on his [=YouTube=] channel.
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''Bar Boys'' is a 2017 Philippine comedy-drama film directed by Kip Oebanda under [=TropicFrills=] Film Productions in cooperation with Wild Sound Studios.
It stars Rocco Nacino (as Torran Garcia), Carlo Aquino (as Erik Vicencio), Enzo Pineda (as Christian Carlson), and Kean Cipriano (as Joshua Zuñiga) as a tight-knit group of friends going through law school.
!!''Bar Boys'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Invoked. There's a disclaimer at the beginning about how everything shown in the film is purely fictitious and that law schools don't operate exactly as they're depicted... so ''please'' don't sue them.
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''Bar Boys'' is a 2017 Philippine comedy-drama film directed by Kip Oebanda under [=TropicFrills=] Film Productions in cooperation with Wild Sound Studios.
It stars Rocco Nacino (as Torran Garcia), Carlo Aquino (as Erik Vicencio), Enzo Pineda (as Christian Carlson), and Kean Cipriano (as Joshua Zuñiga) as a tight-knit group of friends going through law school.
!!''Bar Boys'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Invoked. There's a disclaimer at the beginning about how everything shown in the film is purely fictitious and that law schools don't operate exactly as they're depicted... so ''please'' don't sue them.
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