History Film / LostAndDelirious

* CanadaEh: Where the film is set, presumably, according to the reference to [=McGill=] University. the Toronto Blue Jays, and several characters' accents.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Paulie in the film has her inner demons and dangerous emotional struggles which is the end [[spoiler: exacerbates her decision to [[DrivenToSuicide take her own life]].]], but she's a ''lot'' friendlier and a ''lot'' less emotionally volatile and dangerous that in the book. The majority of her most insidious, dangerous and utterly unnerving elements are completely AdaptedOut, which makes her come as much more tragic as a result.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Paulie in the film has her inner demons and dangerous emotional struggles which is the end [[spoiler: exacerbates her decision to [[DrivenToSuicide take her own life]], but she's a ''lot'' friendlier and a ''lot'' less emotionally volatile and dangerous that in the book. The majority of her most insidious, dangerous and utterly unnerving elements are completely AdaptedOut, which makes her come as much more tragic as a result.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Mouse does it in the book.

* YuriGenre: Paulie and Tori.

* Swordfight: Paulie is a fencing expert and challenges Tori's boyfriend to a duel for her hand.

* LipstickLesbian: Tori, who acts and dresses effeminately while being in a relationship with another girl.

''Lost and Delirious'' is a film about a young, naïve heterosexual girl named Mary or "Mouse" (Creator/MischaBarton) who moves in to boarding school with a couple of SchoolgirlLesbians who are involved in an intimate relationship. The story follows Mouse's attempts to understand their relationship and adult sexuality and also follows the struggles Paulie (Creator/PiperPerabo) and Tori (Creator/JessicaPare) have as a lesbian couple at an all-girls private school. When Tori's little sister catches them together, Tori throws herself into a relationship with a guy and Paulie desperately tries to win her back.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Paulie and Tori, two girls in a relationship at boarding school.

* SupportingProtagonist: Mary is the first character introduced in the film and the narrator. The movie is seen from her point-of-view but she has little impact on the plot, and the story is all about SchoolgirlLesbians Paulie and Tori.

''Lost and Delirious'' is a film about a young, naïve heterosexual girl named Mary or "Mouse" (Creator/MischaBarton) who moves in to boarding school with a couple of SchoolgirlLesbians who are involved in an intimate relationship. The story follows Mouse's attempts to understand their relationship and adult sexuality and also follows the struggles Paulie (Creator/PiperPerabo) and Tori (Jessica Paré) have as a lesbian couple at an all-girls private school. When Tori's little sister catches them together, Tori throws herself into a relationship with a guy and Paulie desperately tries to win her back.

''Lost and Delirious'' is a film about a young, naïve heterosexual girl named Mary or "Mouse" (Crator/MischaBarton) who moves in to boarding school with a couple of SchoolgirlLesbians who are involved in an intimate relationship. The story follows Mouse's attempts to understand their relationship and adult sexuality and also follows the struggles Paulie (Creator/PiperPerabo) and Tori (Jessica Paré) have as a lesbian couple at an all-girls private school. When Tori's little sister catches them together, Tori throws herself into a relationship with a guy and Paulie desperately tries to win her back.

''Lost and Delirious'' is a film about a young, naïve heterosexual girl named Mary or "Mouse" (Mischa Barton) who moves in to boarding school with a couple of SchoolgirlLesbians who are involved in an intimate relationship. The story follows Mouse's attempts to understand their relationship and adult sexuality and also follows the struggles Paulie (Creator/PiperPerabo) and Tori (Jessica Paré) have as a lesbian couple at an all-girls private school. When Tori's little sister catches them together, Tori throws herself into a relationship with a guy and Paulie desperately tries to win her back.

Paulie's much less palatable in the book: she not only [[spoiler:dresses up as a guy, but deceives the entire school population into thinking she has a brother]], but she worships King Kong and she strings (the much ''less'' naive) Mouse along much further. Her own sexuality is never mentioned, although there's a brief scene with Tori, who professes a crush on "Lewis". The older teacher is still in a forbidden romance (here explicitly stated when Paulie and Mouse find letters from the teachers), but this is better justified by some deliberate ValuesDissonance (the book's set in the 50's).

''Lost and Delirious'' is a film about a young, naïve heterosexual girl named Mary or "Mouse" (Mischa Barton) who moves in to boarding school with a couple of SchoolgirlLesbians who are involved in an intimate relationship. The story follows Mouse's attempts to understand their relationship and adult sexuality and also follows the struggles Paulie (Piper Perabo) and Tori (Jessica Paré) have as a lesbian couple at an all-girls private school. When Tori's little sister catches them together, Tori throws herself into a relationship with a guy and Paulie desperately tries to win her back.

* DisappearedDad: Mary's dad is around, but they're emotionally estranged after her mother's death. He apparently remarried soon after, with Mary disliking her stepmother (likely due to how fast this happened) nor being sent off to a boarding school by him. When he's doesn't show up for a father-daughter dance at the school, it clearly hurts Mary.

** Paulie's birth mother, meanwhile, gave her up for adoption and she really wants to reunite (not likely her foster parents at all). Unfortunately, her birth mother doesn't want this, which clearly devastates Paulie (although she pretends otherwise) and likely does no favors to [[DrivenToSuicide her mental state]] as Tori had just broken up with her then too.