History Film / DownWithLove

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Nancy becomes Barbara.]]

* EmphaticEnvironment: When [[spoiler:Barbara leaves Catcher near the end and he watches her cab drive away]], it begins to pour with rain. It's still raining in the next scene [[spoiler:with Catcher depressed over losing Barbara]].

* [[spoiler: Foreshadowing: In the hairdresser, Catcher states that Peter said - though he didn't - that Barbara was a brunette and did not sound like a blonde on the telephone. As we find out later in both senses, she was, and isn't.]]

* [[spoiler: OffscreenInertia: So... Are they going to stay on that rope ladder all the way to Vegas?]]

* [[spoiler:OutGambitted: Novak pulls this on Block. It works out well for both of them though.]]

* TwiceShy: Peter and Vikki.

* GambitRoulette: [[spoiler:Barbara/Nancy's entire plot to snare Catcher, which essentially hinges on her uncanny prediction of the entirety of the film's events up until the point of her revelation.]]

** Includes an absolutely priceless ReactionShot from Ewan McGregor

* CreativeClosingCredits: The ending credits include an extra scene with Renee & Ewan singing a duet and one with David Hyde Pierce and Sarah Paulson.

* BigApplesauce

** Includes an absolutely priceless ReactionShot from Ewan MacGregor

Aspiring author Barbara Novak (Creator/ReneeZellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down With Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international best seller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block (Creator/EwanMcGregor), a reporter for Know Magazine, and TheCasanova rivalling Film/JamesBond in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

Aspiring author Barbara Novak (Renée Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down With Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international best seller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block (EwanMcGregor), a reporter for Know Magazine, and TheCasanova rivalling Film/JamesBond in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

* Chekhov'sGun:[[spoiler:The key Catcher leaves out for his girlfriends. And the NASA security clearance badge.]]

* MistakenForGay: Peter, played by gay actor David Hyde-Pierce.

* Chekhov'sGun:[[spoiler:The key Catcher leaves out for his girlfriends.]]

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Nancy becomes Barbara]]

Aspiring author Barbara Novak (Renée Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down With Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international best seller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block (EwanMcGregor), a reporter for Know Magazine, and TheCasanova rivalling JamesBond in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

** Kim Novak deliberately seeks this out as part of her {{plan}}

* HeroesWantRedheads: Something between a blonde and a brunette?
* HeyItsThatGuy!: It's [[{{Frasier}} Niles]]!
** And [[StarWars Obi-Wan]]!
** And one of the publishers of Barbara's book is [[{{Psych}} Detective Carlton Lassiter]].

* HistoricalInJoke: A deleted scene had Vikki pitching a number of books to her fellow editors, all of which are rejected out of hand. They're all famous feminist works that sold incredibly well and helped shape the movement. Except the last, which was the biography of Neal Armstrong, with a foreword by God.