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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Both Flipper and Angie have overbearing, conservative fathers. Their affair is driven as much by sticking to their fathers as anything else.
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Both Flipper and Angie have overbearing, conservative fathers. Their shallow affair is driven as much by sticking a desire to spite their fathers as anything else.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Paulie to his father and to most of the guys in the neighborhood, at least until his final scene where he shows some spine.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Paulie to his father and to most of the guys in the neighborhood, at least until his final scene where he shows some spine.
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*BittersweetEnding: Flipper and Angie's relationship is over, Gator is [[spoiler: dead]] while his father the Reverend Doctor [[spoiler: may go to prison for shooting his son]]. Meanwhile, Paulie is a pariah in his own neighborhood for trying to date a black woman and is probably destined to be estranged from his father for the same reason. On the other hand, there's some hope that Flipper will mend his marriage with Drew and that Paulie, who has finally shown some independence by standing up to his father and to neighborhood trouble-makers, may still have a good life ahead of him.
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*CannotKeepASecret: Flipper's friend Cyrus winds up telling his wife about Flipper's affair with Angie. Cyrus's wife tells the whole neighborhood.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what happens to the Reverend Doctor after he [[spoiler: shoots Gator]]. Did he tell the truth about what happened and wind up in prison for the rest of his life, or did he stretch the truth by saying that he acted in self defense and walk away a free man?
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what happens to the Reverend Doctor after he [[spoiler: shoots Gator]]. Did he tell the truth about what happened and wind up in prison for the rest of his life, or did he stretch the truth by saying that he acted in self defense self-defense and walk away a free man?
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*WorldOfJerkass: There are very few sympathetic characters in this film. Gator is a crack addict and petty criminal who steals from his own family. The Reverend Doctor is an overbearing domestic tyrant. Angie's father beats her when he discovers her affair with Flipper, her brothers are equally bigoted lazy bums, Paulie's father treats his son like a doormat, and the people at Paulie's store are racist hoodlums. Flipper's bosses are smarmy, condescending jerks. Last but not certainly not least, Flipper and Angie aren't particularly likeable either, as they carry on their affair for completely selfish reasons - eroticizing the racial "other" and spiting racist family members.
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*WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never find out what happens to the Reverend Doctor after he [[spoiler: shoots Gator]]. Did he tell the truth about what happened and wind up in prison for the rest of his life, or did he stretch the truth by saying that he acted in self defense and walk away a free man?
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* JerkassHasAPoint: The Reverend Doctor is a self-righteous and cruel man. However, he often acts this way because there's more than a grain to truth to what he says:
** While he expresses himself in the most insulting way possible, the Reverend isn't wrong to say that Flipper and Angie's relationship is shallow, selfish and driven by a desire for sex with the exotic racial "other" rather than genuine love (not to mention an even more childish desire to spite their elders). Of course, where he goes too far is in claiming that all interracial relationships are as superficial as theirs.
** While he expresses himself in the most insulting way possible, the Reverend isn't wrong to say that Flipper and Angie's relationship is shallow, selfish and driven by a desire for sex with the exotic racial "other" rather than genuine love (not to mention an even more childish desire to spite their elders). Of course, where he goes too far is in claiming that all interracial relationships are as superficial as theirs.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: The Reverend Doctor is a self-righteous and cruel man. man who tyrannizes over his family. However, he often acts this way because there's more than a grain to truth to what he says:
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** While he expresseshimself his thoughts on the subject in the most insulting way possible, the Reverend Doctor isn't wrong to say that Flipper and Angie's relationship is shallow, selfish and driven by a desire for sex with the exotic racial "other" rather than genuine love (not to mention an even more childish desire to spite their elders). Of course, where he goes too far is in claiming that all interracial relationships are as superficial as theirs.
** While he expresses
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*AssholeVictim: Gator, who revels in being a crack addict, steals money from his family, and (if he's to be believed) robs elderly people to support his habit. There's little sympathy for him when [[spoiler: his father the Reverend Doctor decides to put an end to Gator and the problems that he causes by shooting him]].
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*ExtremeDoormat: Paulie to his father and to most of the guys in the neighborhood, at least until his final scene where he shows some spine.
* TheDogBitesBack: Paulie finally gets the courage to stand up to both his overbearing father and to the neighborhood hoodlums when they criticize or ridicule him for his interest in Orin, a black woman. He gets badly beaten for it, but at least he's shown them that he's willing to stand up for himself.
* TheDogBitesBack: Paulie finally gets the courage to stand up to both his overbearing father and to the neighborhood hoodlums when they criticize or ridicule him for his interest in Orin, a black woman. He gets badly beaten for it, but at least he's shown them that he's willing to stand up for himself.
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*JerkassHasAPoint: The Reverend Doctor is a self-righteous and cruel man. However, he often acts this way because there's more than a grain to truth to what he says:
**While he expresses himself in the most insulting way possible, the Reverend isn't wrong to say that Flipper and Angie's relationship is shallow, selfish and driven by a desire for sex with the exotic racial "other" rather than genuine love (not to mention an even more childish desire to spite their elders). Of course, where he goes too far is in claiming that all interracial relationships are as superficial as theirs.
**Unlike his wife and Flipper, the Reverend Doctor had the good sense to recognize that Gator was beyond redemption very early on. Not only was Gator a crack addict, he was proud of being a crack addict.
**While he expresses himself in the most insulting way possible, the Reverend isn't wrong to say that Flipper and Angie's relationship is shallow, selfish and driven by a desire for sex with the exotic racial "other" rather than genuine love (not to mention an even more childish desire to spite their elders). Of course, where he goes too far is in claiming that all interracial relationships are as superficial as theirs.
**Unlike his wife and Flipper, the Reverend Doctor had the good sense to recognize that Gator was beyond redemption very early on. Not only was Gator a crack addict, he was proud of being a crack addict.
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*NiceGuy: Paulie is probably the most likable of the main characters in the film. He's not a bigot like his father or the other guys in his neighborhood, his interest in Orin is sincere affection rather than "jungle fever," and he seems to have an interest in bettering himself by reading and signing up for college courses so that he won't be stuck in the same dead-end job around the same dead-end people the rest of his life. Not surprisingly, these traits don't exactly make him popular around the neighborhood.
