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* FanDisservice: Lizzie hacks her mother to death while naked.
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* FanDisservice: Lizzie hacks her mother to death while naked.naked and the same goes for Bridget when she attempts to do the same to Andrew.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lizzie is found not guilty of murder and is finally free of her awful father and her mother who didn't lift a finger to stop him, and her uncle will never lay hands on the family money. But her relationships with Bridget and her own sister are broken, and she will live the rest of her life alone. Bridget is horrified by the murder and no longer feels like she knows Lizzie.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lizzie is found not guilty of murder and is finally free of her awful father and her mother stepmother who didn't lift a finger to stop him, and her uncle will never lay hands on the family money. But her relationships with Bridget and her own sister are broken, and she will live the rest of her life alone. Bridget is horrified by the murder and no longer feels like she knows Lizzie.]]
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A 2018 film about the killing by [[UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden Lizzie Borden]] of her parents, starring Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/KristenStewart. Unrelated to the [[Theatre/{{Lizzie}} musical of the same name.]]
This version of the story takes a notably psychological turn, focusing on Lizzie's relationship with her oppressive parents, especially her father Andrew, and her own more affectionate/romantic relationship with the family's housekeeper, Bridget O'Sullivan.
Lizzie herself is played by Chloë Sevigny, and Bridget by Kristen Stewart.
This version of the story takes a notably psychological turn, focusing on Lizzie's relationship with her oppressive parents, especially her father Andrew, and her own more affectionate/romantic relationship with the family's housekeeper, Bridget O'Sullivan.
Lizzie herself is played by Chloë Sevigny, and Bridget by Kristen Stewart.
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A 2018 American biopic/thriller film about thekilling 1892 axe murders by [[UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden Lizzie Borden]] UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden of her parents, directed by Craig William Macneill and starring Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/KristenStewart. Unrelated to the [[Theatre/{{Lizzie}} musical of the same name.]]
Creator/KristenStewart.
This version of the story takes a notably psychological turn, focusing on Lizzie's (Sevigny) relationship with her oppressiveparents, especially parents--particularly her father Andrew, and Andrew (Creator/JameySheridan)--and her own more affectionate/romantic relationship with the family's housekeeper, Bridget O'Sullivan.
Lizzie herself is played by Chloë Sevigny, and Bridget by Kristen Stewart.
O'Sullivan (Stewart).
Unrelated to the [[Theatre/{{Lizzie}} musical of the same name.]]
A 2018 American biopic/thriller film about the
This version of the story takes a notably psychological turn, focusing on Lizzie's (Sevigny) relationship with her oppressive
Lizzie herself is played by Chloë Sevigny, and Bridget by Kristen Stewart.
Unrelated to the [[Theatre/{{Lizzie}} musical of the same name.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: Arguably, Lizzie, who is prone to epileptic seizures. Her father wants to use this as an excuse to institutionalise her, but he can't figure out a way to do it.
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* HandicappedBadass: Arguably, Lizzie, who is prone to epileptic seizures. Her father wants to use this as an excuse to institutionalise her, but so he can't figure out a way to do it.can steal her and her sister's inheritances.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Lizzie is oh so very deadpan, and gets a couple of these in.
-->'''Detective''': Did your father have any enemies?
-->'''Lizzie''': This is America, sir. Every man with a pulse has enemies.
-->'''Detective''': Did your father have any enemies?
-->'''Lizzie''': This is America, sir. Every man with a pulse has enemies.
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* SympatheticMurderer: Lizzie's father is so despicable, and his plan to have her institutionalised so that she won't inherit her mother's property is so evil, that murdering her parents seems to be the only way out for her.
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* FanDisservice: Lizzie hacks her mother to death while naked.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Andrew and Abby's marriage. She knows all about his habit of [[spoiler: sexually assaulting the servant girl]] and is merely disgusted with him.
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** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance.
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** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance. [[spoiler: He also sexually assaults Lizzie in the hall of their house, grinding his hips into hers. He only stops because Bridget finds them.]]
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* NeverLearnedToRead: Bridget. Lizzie teaches her.
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* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.
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* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.consequences.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Bridget does one of these when she hears Lizzie [[spoiler: hacking her own mother to death.]]
* VomitDiscretionShot: Bridget does one of these when she hears Lizzie [[spoiler: hacking her own mother to death.]]
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* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, an illiterate young Irish woman who takes a job as the Borden's housekeepers [[spoiler: and finds that the head of the family regards her as his sex toy, and that the only member of the household who shows her any kindness is capable of axe-murder.]]
* TheWoobie: Bridget, an illiterate young Irish woman who takes a job as the Borden's housekeepers [[spoiler: and finds that the head of the family regards her as his sex toy, and that the only member of the household who shows her any kindness is capable of axe-murder.]]
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* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, an illiterate young Irish woman who takes a job as the Borden's housekeepers [[spoiler: and finds that the head of the family regards her as his sex toy, and that the only member of the household who shows her any kindness is capable of axe-murder.]]consequences.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, an illiterate young Irish woman who takes a job as the Borden's housekeepers [[spoiler: and finds that the head of the family regards her as his sex toy, and that the only member of the household who shows her any kindness is capable of axe-murder.]]
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* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.
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* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.consequences.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, an illiterate young Irish woman who takes a job as the Borden's housekeepers [[spoiler: and finds that the head of the family regards her as his sex toy, and that the only member of the household who shows her any kindness is capable of axe-murder.]]
* TheWoobie: Bridget, an illiterate young Irish woman who takes a job as the Borden's housekeepers [[spoiler: and finds that the head of the family regards her as his sex toy, and that the only member of the household who shows her any kindness is capable of axe-murder.]]
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Downplayed. Abby Borden informs Bridget that she will be known as "Maggie", because that's what they call all their Irish housekeepers, regardless of their actual names. Lizzie dislike this practice, and insists on calling Bridget by her real name.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Downplayed. Abby Borden informs Bridget that she will be known as "Maggie", because that's what they call all their Irish housekeepers, regardless of their actual names. Lizzie dislike dislikes this practice, and insists on calling Bridget by her real name.
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* KickTheDog: Andrew kills Lizzie's pet pigeons with an axe, out of rage at her attempting to pawn her mother's jewellery. Exaggerated as he then has Bridget ''serve them the pigeons for dinner''. [[spoiler: This will come back to bite him later when Lizzie smears pigeon blood on the axe that she uses to kill her parents, thereby making the police rule it out as the murder weapon.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Downplayed. Abby Borden informs Bridget that she will be known as "Maggie", because that's what they call all their Irish housekeepers, regardless of their actual names. Lizzie dislike this practice, and insists on calling Bridget by her real name.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Downplayed. Abby Borden informs Bridget that she will be known as "Maggie", because that's what they call all their Irish housekeepers, regardless of their actual names. Lizzie dislike this practice, and insists on calling Bridget by her real name.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Lizzie overhears her father raping Bridget in the middle of the night, she breaks a mirror and scatters broken glass outside Bridget's door, so that when he leaves her room he'll cut his bare feet. She then lies in bed listening out for his cry of pain, which duly happens.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Lizzie overhears her father [[spoiler: raping Bridget Bridget]] in the middle of the night, she breaks a mirror and scatters broken glass outside Bridget's door, so that when he leaves her room he'll cut his bare feet. She then lies in bed listening out for his cry of pain, which duly happens.
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* HateSink: Andrew Borden, who is depicted as being not just a stern and cruel patriarch who regards his daughters as his personal property, and who no longer has any affection for his wife, but who also regularly rapes Bridget.
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* HateSink: Andrew Borden, who is depicted as being not just a stern and cruel patriarch who regards his daughters as his personal property, and who no longer has any affection for his wife, but who also [[spoiler: regularly rapes Bridget.Bridget]].
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: When Lizzie overhears her father raping Bridget in the middle of the night, she breaks a mirror and scatters broken glass outside Bridget's door, so that when he leaves her room he'll cut his bare feet. She then lies in bed listening out for his cry of pain, which duly happens.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lizzie is found not guilty of murder and is finally free of her awful father and her mother who didn't lift a finger to stop him, and her uncle will never lay hands on the family money. But her relationships with Bridget and her own sister are broken, and she will live the rest of her life alone. Bridget is horrified by the murder and no longer feels like she knows Lizzie.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Lizzie is found not guilty of murder and is finally free of her awful father and her mother who didn't lift a finger to stop him, and her uncle will never lay hands on the family money. But her relationships with Bridget and her own sister are broken, and she will live the rest of her life alone. Bridget is horrified by the murder and no longer feels like she knows Lizzie.]]
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* HandicappedBadass: Argubably, Lizzie, who is prone to epileptic seizures. Her father wants to use this as an excuse to institutionalise her, but he can't figure out a way to do it.
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* HandicappedBadass: Argubably, Arguably, Lizzie, who is prone to epileptic seizures. Her father wants to use this as an excuse to institutionalise her, but he can't figure out a way to do it.
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** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance.
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** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance.inheritance.
* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.
* TheStoic: Lizzie, who seldom betrays any emotion but who carries out her plan with remorseless efficiency, and accepts the consequences.
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* TheWoobie: Bridget, who has to put up with being raped by Andrew on a regular basis and not complain about it.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, who has to put up with being raped by Andrew on a regular basis and not complain about it.
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** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, who has to put up with being raped by Andrew on a regular basis and not complain about it.inheritance.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, who has to put up with being raped by Andrew on a regular basis and not complain about it.
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A 2018 film about the killing by [[UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden Lizzie Borden]] of her parents, starring Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/KristenStewart.
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A 2018 film about the killing by [[UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden Lizzie Borden]] of her parents, starring Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/KristenStewart.
Creator/KristenStewart. Unrelated to the [[Theatre/{{Lizzie}} musical of the same name.]]
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A 2018 film about the killing by [[UsefulNotes/LizzieBorden Lizzie Borden]] of her parents, starring Creator/ChloeSevigny and Creator/KristenStewart.
This version of the story takes a notably psychological turn, focusing on Lizzie's relationship with her oppressive parents, especially her father Andrew, and her own more affectionate/romantic relationship with the family's maid/housekeeper, Bridget O'Sullivan.
Lizzie herself is played by Chloë Sevigny, and Bridget by Kristen Stewart.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Lizzie takes her clothes off before killing her mother, in order not to get blood on her clothes. Downplayed with Bridget, who does the same thing before attempting to kill Andrew, but she can't go through with it. [[spoiler: Lizzie finishes the job instead.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Argubably, Lizzie, who is prone to epileptic seizures. Her father wants to use this as an excuse to institutionalise her, but he can't figure out a way to do it.
* HateSink: Andrew Borden, who is depicted as being not just a stern and cruel patriarch who regards his daughters as his personal property, and who no longer has any affection for his wife, but who also regularly rapes Bridget.
** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, who has to put up with being raped by Andrew on a regular basis and not complain about it.
This version of the story takes a notably psychological turn, focusing on Lizzie's relationship with her oppressive parents, especially her father Andrew, and her own more affectionate/romantic relationship with the family's maid/housekeeper, Bridget O'Sullivan.
Lizzie herself is played by Chloë Sevigny, and Bridget by Kristen Stewart.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Lizzie takes her clothes off before killing her mother, in order not to get blood on her clothes. Downplayed with Bridget, who does the same thing before attempting to kill Andrew, but she can't go through with it. [[spoiler: Lizzie finishes the job instead.]]
* HandicappedBadass: Argubably, Lizzie, who is prone to epileptic seizures. Her father wants to use this as an excuse to institutionalise her, but he can't figure out a way to do it.
* HateSink: Andrew Borden, who is depicted as being not just a stern and cruel patriarch who regards his daughters as his personal property, and who no longer has any affection for his wife, but who also regularly rapes Bridget.
** John Morse, Lizzie's maternal uncle, who is collaborating with Andrew to swindle the Borden girls out of their inheritance.
* TheWoobie: Bridget, who has to put up with being raped by Andrew on a regular basis and not complain about it.
