History Film / CurlySue

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue always wears a tin ring that belonged to her late mother [[spoiler: until it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter. Fortunately, Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school]]. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is a tin box with a vintage paper doll Valentine's Day card, dried flowers and a tattered picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue always wears a ring that belonged to her late mother [[spoiler: until it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter. Fortunately, Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school]]. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is a tin box with a vintage paper doll Valentine's Day card, dried flowers and a tattered picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Curly Sue is comfortable dressing in boyish/ragged clothes but owns several pink necklaces and bracelets and always wears a woman's ring. After Grey takes her in Curly Sue wears more feminine clothes.

* BastardBoyfriend: Grey's boyfriend Walker. He is rude to both Bill and Curly Sue and looks down on them for being homeless. [[spoiler: When he finds out about Bill and Curly Sue being con artists and that Bill isn't Curly Sue's father he calls the police and has Bill arrested and Curly Sue placed in foster care to get Bill away from Grey.]]

* OrphansPlotTrinket: The ring which belonged to the Curly Sue's mother. Sue and Bill are homeless, and the ring is stolen by another homeless man early in the film. Later, when Bill is missing, she is unconcerned, asking whether he left a note or a ring; as he left neither, she knows he'll be back, since he won't leave her without first recovering her mother's ring. [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie, he does leave both the ring and a note, and she's heartbroken... until she learns that the note says he is in the next room.]]

* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Curly Sue owns several pink necklaces and bracelets and always wears a woman's ring.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Bill scams people for a living but he disapproves of stealing and apparently forbids Curly Sue from doing so.

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue always wears a ring that belonged to her late mother [[spoiler: until it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter. Fortunately, Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school]]. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is an tin box with a vintage paper doll Valentine's Day card, dried flowers and a picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue always wears a ring that belonged to her late mother [[spoiler: until it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter. Fortunately, Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school]]. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is an aluminium box with a vintage paper doll Valentine's Day card, dried flowers and a picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue always wears a ring that used to belong to her late mother [[spoiler: until it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter. Fortunately, Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school]]. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is an aluminium box with a vintage paper doll card, dried flowers and a picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.
* TraumaticHaircut: At some point while in the custody of the child welfare authorities, Sue's trademark very long, curly hair is cut to about shoulder-length, which seems to also make it look poofier and she makes it clear she hates it. "They cut my hair" are the first words out of her mouth when Grey comes for her.

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue has a ring that used to belong to her late mother until [[spoiler: it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter until Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school]]. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is an aluminium box with a paper doll, dried flowers and a picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.

* TragicKeepsake: Curly Sue has a ring that used to belong to her late mother until [[spoiler: it gets stolen and pawned by one of their roommates at a shelter until Bill manages to get it back and Curly Sue wears it on her first day of school. Among the many trinkets that Curly Sue has in her traveling bag there is an aluminium box with a paper doll, dried flowers and a picture of a woman presumed to be Curly Sue's mother inside.

* TraumaticHaircut: At some point while in the custody of the child welfare authorities, Sue's trademark very long, curly hair is cut to about shoulder-length, which seems to also make it look poofier and she makes it clear she hated that. "They cut my hair" are the first words out of her mouth when Grey comes for her.

* TraumaticHaircut: At some point while in the custody of the child welfare authorities, Sue's trademark very long, curly hair is cut to about shoulder-length, which seems to also make it look poofier. "They cut my hair" are the first words out of her mouth when Grey comes for her.

''Curly Sue'' is 1991 comedy film written and directed by Creator/JohnHughes: his final film as director.

Bill (James Belushi) and Curly Sue (Alisan Porter) are a father-and-daughter team of con artists, who are taken in by lawyer Grey Ellison (Kelly Lynch) after she accidentally hits Bill with her car.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To PaperMoon.

''Curly Sue'' is 1991 comedy film written and directed by JohnHughes: his final film as director.