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* IWantGrandkids: One of the reasons why Tessa tries to talk her daughter Rachel out of the whole "being gay"-thing.
-->'''Tessa''' And what about my grandchildren? Who will provide me with them? \\
'''[[OpenMindedParent Ted:]]''' [[HasTwoMommies Well, kids these days have many amazing new methods at their disposal.]]
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* HappyEnding: Even Heck gets one, [[spoiler: despite his wife leaving him]].

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* HappyEnding: Even Quite possibly the happiest-ending film of all time. Everyone - ''everyone'' - gets a happy ending, even Heck gets one, [[spoiler: despite [[spoiler:despite his wife leaving him]].
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* IndulgentFantasySegue: During H's science act, Rachel happens to barely touch Luce's hand, then she brushes Luce's hair off her face, and then they spend several moments deeply gazing into each other's eyes with very tender music playing. Suddenly the lights come on and... Luce's still watching the act and no touching has taken place.

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* IndulgentFantasySegue: During H's science act, Rachel happens to barely touch Luce's hand, then she brushes Luce's hair off her face, and then they spend several moments deeply gazing into each other's eyes with very tender music playing. Suddenly playing, leaning closer, and closer, and... the lights come on and... with a loud snap, Luce's still watching the act and no touching has taken place.
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* AtomicFBomb: [[ItMakesSenseInContext YOU'RE A]] [[AtomicFBomb WANKER,]] [[NoIndoorVoice NUMBER NIIIIIIIIINEEEE!!]] Wanker being a pretty strong cussword in the UK, and it comes back in the end as an [[AnguishedDeclarationofLove Anguished Declaration of Love]].

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* AtomicFBomb: [[ItMakesSenseInContext YOU'RE A]] [[AtomicFBomb WANKER,]] [[NoIndoorVoice NUMBER NIIIIIIIIINEEEE!!]] Wanker being a pretty fairly strong cussword in the UK, and it comes back in the end as an [[AnguishedDeclarationofLove Anguished Declaration of Love]].
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* FlowersOfRomance: Heck (aka Hector) goes to pick up flowers for his bride Rachel, as a way of apologizing for not being present all the time for her. [[spoiler:All this happened just after Rachel and Luce kissed in the flower shop.]]
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* IndulgentFantasySegue: During H's science act, Rachel happens to barely touch Luce's hand, then she brushes Luce's hair off her face, and then they spend several moments deeply gazing into each other's eyes with very tender music playing. Suddenly the lights come on and... Luce's still watching the act and no touching has taken place.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The sheer amount of times that Rachel, Luce and Heck accidentally bump into each other, or end up at the same location at the same time.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: The sheer amount of times that Rachel, Luce and Heck accidentally bump into each other, or end up at the same location at the same time.other.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The sheer amount of times that Rachel, Luce and Heck accidentally bump into each other, or end up at the same location at the same time.
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The film stars Piper Perabo as Rachel, Creator/LenaHeadey as Luce, Matthew Goode as Heck, and AnthonyHead as Rachel's father Ned.

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The film stars Piper Perabo as Rachel, Creator/LenaHeadey as Luce, Matthew Goode as Heck, and AnthonyHead Creator/AnthonyHead as Rachel's father Ned.
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The film stars Piper Perabo as Rachel, LenaHeadey as Luce, Matthew Goode as Heck, and AnthonyHead as Rachel's father Ned.

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The film stars Piper Perabo as Rachel, LenaHeadey Creator/LenaHeadey as Luce, Matthew Goode as Heck, and AnthonyHead as Rachel's father Ned. Ned.


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-->'''Luce:''' It never happens. If there's a thing that can't be stopped, it not possible for there to be something else which can't be moved, and vice versa. They can't both exist. You see? It's a trick question, is the answer.

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-->'''Luce:''' It never happens. If there's a thing that can't be stopped, it it's not possible for there to be something else which can't be moved, and vice versa. They can't both exist. You see? It's a trick question, is the answer.
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The film stars Piper Perabo as Rachel, Lena Headey as Luce, Matthew Goode as Heck, and AnthonyHead as Rachel's father Ned.

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The film stars Piper Perabo as Rachel, Lena Headey LenaHeadey as Luce, Matthew Goode as Heck, and AnthonyHead as Rachel's father Ned.
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-->'''Coooper:''' Did you see that flower girl out there? Later we are going to fall madly in bed.\\
'''Heck:'''So it is going well for you then?\\

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-->'''Coooper:''' -->'''Cooper:''' Did you see that flower girl out there? Later we are going to fall madly in bed.\\
'''Heck:'''So '''Heck:''' So it is going well for you then?\\



'''Heck:''' ''(laughs at her joke; realizes she is not joking)''...hmm...lovely. ''Well done!''\\

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'''Heck:''' ''(laughs at her joke; realizes she is not joking)''...hmm...Hmm...lovely. ''Well done!''\\
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* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject:
-->'''H:''' What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
-->'''Luce:''' It never happens. If there's a thing that can't be stopped, it not possible for there to be something else which can't be moved, and vice versa. They can't both exist. You see? It's a trick question, is the answer.
** And later, when [[spoiler:Heck has decided to leave Rachel because he knows that she's in love with Luce:]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Heck:]]''' [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I want you to be happy.]] More than anything else, I wanted to be the cause of happiness in you. But if I'm not, then I can't stand in the way. Do you see? Because what you're feeling now, [[spoiler:Rachel]], is the unstoppable force... which means that I've got to move.
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* SecondLove
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* NotThatTheresAnythingWrongWithThat
-->'''Heck:''' ''(Trying to set her up with his best friend)'' Anyway, are you married? Been married? Ever going to be married...\\
'''Luce:''' Umm... no, no, and maybe now when the law has changed.\\
'''Heck:''' How do you mean?\\
'''Luce:''' I'm gay.\\
'''Heck:''' ''(laughs at her joke; realizes she is not joking)''...hmm...lovely. ''Well done!''\\
''(Cue Luce's confused WTF-face, and Heck quickly excusing himself)''
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* ILoveTheSmellOfXInTheMorning:
-->'''Ned:''' I love the smell of hot dogs in the evening. Smells like... [[ShapedLikeItself hot dogs]].

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* HappyEnding: Even Heck gets one, [[spoiler: despite his wife leaving him.]]

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* HappyEnding: Even Heck gets one, [[spoiler: despite his wife leaving him.]]him]].
* HenpeckedHusband: Ned.
-->'''Beth:''' So, Ned. How long have you guys been married, then?\\
'''Ned:''' Thirty Years.\\
'''Beth:''' ''(tenderly)'' Oh.\\
'''Ned:''' If I'd killed her when I first thought about it, I'd be out by now. A free man.
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* DudeShesALesbian: Gloriously done.
-->'''Coooper:''' Did you see that flower girl out there? Later we are going to fall madly in bed.\\
'''Heck:'''So it is going well for you then?\\
'''Cooper:''' Very well.\\
'''Heck:''' She is a lesbian.\\
'''Cooper:''' Is that right? ''[[GirlOnGirlIsHot Cool.]]''\\
'''Heck:''' Doesn't that slightly thwart your plan for seduction?\\
'''Cooper:''' Anyone can change teams... Not ''anyone'', cause ''I'' would never, you know...hmm... ''[[ShuttingUpNow (starts gulping down his drink)]]''
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* DisposableFiance: Averted with Heck.
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* ComfortingComforter: Rachel tosses a blanket on Heck while he's pretending to be asleep on the couch.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The German title is ''Eine Hochzeit zu dritt'' ("A Threesome Wedding" or "A Wedding for Three").
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* ClosetKey: Luce is this to Rachel.

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A fairly standard but very sweet and heartwarming RomanticComedy about a newlywed who finds herself falling in love with someone else - the lonely woman who arranged the wedding flowers. As she's walking down the aisle to her husband-to-be.

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A fairly standard but very sweet and heartwarming ''Imagine Me & You'' is a 2005 British-American RomanticComedy about a newlywed who finds herself falling in love with someone else - the lonely woman who arranged the wedding flowers. As she's walking down the aisle to her husband-to-be.


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* AtomicFBomb: [[ItMakesSenseInContext YOU'RE A]] [[AtomicFBomb WANKER,]] [[NoIndoorVoice NUMBER NIIIIIIIIINEEEE!!]] Wanker being a pretty strong cussword in the UK, and it comes back in the end as an [[AnguishedDeclarationofLove Anguished Declaration of Love]].

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* BreakingTheFourthWall - Heck ''may have'' done this at the very end when he looks at the camera and smiles.
* TheCasanova - Cooper.
* ChekhovsSkill - When Luce teaches Rachel how to project your voice, and later [[spoiler: Rachel uses this to find Luce. It's really quite romantic. It's a shame if you've read this and not seen the movie yet.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - Ned.

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* BreakingTheFourthWall - BreakingTheFourthWall: Heck ''may have'' done this at the very end when he looks at the camera and smiles.
* TheCasanova - TheCasanova: Cooper.
* ChekhovsSkill - ChekhovsSkill: When Luce teaches Rachel how to project your voice, and later [[spoiler: Rachel uses this to find Luce. It's really quite romantic. It's a shame if you've read this and not seen the movie yet.]]
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}} - {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Ned.



* DaydreamSurprise - Rachel, in H's classroom with Luce.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - Used quite a lot, and very well at that.
** A woman comes into the flower show and breaks down crying because she is pregnant and her boyfriend doesn't know. [[spoiler: Later, during the end credits we see Cooper walking around with a baby.]]
** Heck mentions early in the film that he wants to write a book about partying around the world.[[spoiler: Later Heck does just that.]]

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* DaydreamSurprise - DaydreamSurprise: Rachel, in H's classroom with Luce.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - {{Foreshadowing}}: Used quite a lot, and very well at that.
** A woman comes into the flower show and breaks down crying because she is pregnant and her boyfriend doesn't know. [[spoiler: Later, [[spoiler:Later, during the end credits we see Cooper walking around with a baby.]]
** Heck mentions early in the film that he wants to write a book about partying around the world.[[spoiler: Later [[spoiler:Later Heck does just that.]]



* FlowerMotifs - Pretty much inevitable, in a Rom Com starring a florist, but most important is Rachel's favorite, the lily, which Luce translates as "[[spoiler:I dare you to love me]]".
** Also consider the origin of the term "Yuri" in the context of the film.

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* FlowerMotifs - FlowerMotifs: Pretty much inevitable, in a Rom Com starring a florist, but most important is Rachel's favorite, the lily, which Luce translates as "[[spoiler:I dare you to love me]]".
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me]]". Also consider the origin of the term "Yuri" in the context of the film.



* HandsOnApproach - When Luce teaches Rachel how to project her voice.
* HappyEnding - Even Heck gets one, [[spoiler: despite his wife leaving him.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy - Explored rather deeply as a central theme of the film.

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* HandsOnApproach - HandsOnApproach: When Luce teaches Rachel how to project her voice.
* HappyEnding - HappyEnding: Even Heck gets one, [[spoiler: despite his wife leaving him.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy - IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Explored rather deeply as a central theme of the film.



* LoveAtFirstSight - Essentially the premise behind the romance in the whole movie.
* LoveTriangle - More accurately a 3rd wheel.

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* LoveAtFirstSight - LoveAtFirstSight: Essentially the premise behind the romance in the whole movie.
* LoveTriangle - LoveTriangle: More accurately a 3rd wheel.



* OneSceneWonder - AngelCoulby gets an adorable one [[spoiler: in the final scenes of movie as part of the aforementioned HappyEnding for Heck]].



* ShoutOut - Some of the questions asked by H are the titles of books from the ''Imponderables'' series: ''When Do Fish Sleep?'' and ''Do Penguins Have Knees?''
* ShutUpKiss - More of a one sided variation of this by Rachel. She basically kisses Luce to shut ''herself'' up.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears - H.

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* ShoutOut - ShoutOut: Some of the questions asked by H are the titles of books from the ''Imponderables'' series: ''When Do Fish Sleep?'' and ''Do Penguins Have Knees?''
* ShutUpKiss - ShutUpKiss: More of a one sided variation of this by Rachel. She basically kisses Luce to shut ''herself'' up.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears - WiseBeyondTheirYears: H.
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* NoBisexuals: It is implied that Rachel was never truly attracted to Heck.
-->''You are my best friend. That was enough before, and it will be enough again.''

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* ShutUpKiss - More of a one sided variation of this by Rachel.
** Translation: She basically kisses Luce to shut ''herself'' up.

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* ShutUpKiss - More of a one sided variation of this by Rachel.
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Rachel. She basically kisses Luce to shut ''herself'' up.
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** Translation: She basically kisses Luce to shut ''herself'' up.
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* OneSceneWonder - Angel Coulby gets an adorable one [[spoiler: in the final scenes of movie as part of the aforementioned HappyEnding for Heck]].

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* OneSceneWonder - Angel Coulby AngelCoulby gets an adorable one [[spoiler: in the final scenes of movie as part of the aforementioned HappyEnding for Heck]].

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