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* FacePalm: Kit makes one after Kevin leaves Charlie an embarassing voicemail.
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* FacePalm: Kit makes one after Kevin leaves Charlie an embarassing embarrassing voicemail.
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* FreudianExcuse: Part of the reason why Viola is so mean to Charlie is because she was on the reverse end of the situation with her own mother-in-law. She was always belittled and saw as unfit of marrying Gertrude’s son. When Gertrude appears for Kevin’s wedding, she’s still verbally abusing her daughter-in-law and voicing how unhappy she still is that her son married Viola.
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* FreudianExcuse: Part of the reason why Viola is so mean awful to Charlie is because she was on the reverse receiving end of the situation with such treatment from her own mother-in-law. She mother-in-law Gertrude; Viola was always constantly belittled and by Gertrude who made it clear that she saw Viola as an unfit of marrying Gertrude’s partner for her son. When Gertrude appears for shows up at Kevin’s wedding, she’s still verbally abusing bitter about Viola's marriage to her daughter-in-law and voicing how unhappy she still is that her son married Viola.now deceased son, even going as far as ''blaming Viola for his death''.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Just look at the title.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Just look at It's right there in the title.title, though it should be noted that Charlie only gets married to Kevin in the film's climax and by then, Viola has decided to drop her feud with Charlie entirely.
** Viola's mother-in-law Gertrude, the mother of Viola's first husband and Kevin's grandmother, was a more straightforward example. She is very vocal about her disapproval of her son marrying Viola, even in the present day and her compliments to Charlie are just another excuse to verbally dump on Viola. Charlie almost calls off the wedding out of fear of repeating the cycle.
** Viola's mother-in-law Gertrude, the mother of Viola's first husband and Kevin's grandmother, was a more straightforward example. She is very vocal about her disapproval of her son marrying Viola, even in the present day and her compliments to Charlie are just another excuse to verbally dump on Viola. Charlie almost calls off the wedding out of fear of repeating the cycle.
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The film marks the much awaited return of Jane Fonda to cinema, but at the same times, seems to suffer from the Love It or Be Bored By It syndrome. On one hand, it can be seen as slow-paced, predictable and rather cliched. But nevertheless, the well-executed comedy of this short little film will likely bring a smile to your face anyway. Remember, always trust Wanda Sykes to brighten up your day.
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The film marks the much awaited return of Jane Fonda to cinema, but at the same times, seems to suffer from the Love It or Be Bored By It syndrome. On one hand, it can be seen as slow-paced, predictable and rather cliched. But nevertheless, the well-executed comedy of this short little film will likely bring a smile to your face anyway. Remember, always trust Wanda Sykes Creator/WandaSykes to brighten up your day.
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Charlie Cantilini (Creator/JenniferLopez) has just met the perfect man, Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), a brillant surgeon and son of the legendary [[ObnoxiousInLaws Viola Fields]] (Creator/JaneFonda). She loves him, he loves her, perfect! They should totally get married!
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Charlie Cantilini (Creator/JenniferLopez) has just met the perfect man, Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), (Creator/MichaelVartan), a brillant surgeon and son of the legendary [[ObnoxiousInLaws Viola Fields]] (Creator/JaneFonda). She loves him, he loves her, perfect! They should totally get married!
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Charlie Cantilini (Music/JenniferLopez) has just met the perfect man, Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), a brillant surgeon and son of the legendary [[ObnoxiousInLaws Viola Fields]] (Creator/JaneFonda). She loves him, he loves her, perfect! They should totally get married!
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Charlie Cantilini (Music/JenniferLopez) (Creator/JenniferLopez) has just met the perfect man, Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), a brillant surgeon and son of the legendary [[ObnoxiousInLaws Viola Fields]] (Creator/JaneFonda). She loves him, he loves her, perfect! They should totally get married!
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* YouAreFat: Viola insinuates that Charlie (played by the toned and curvy, especially on the bottom, Music/JenniferLopez) is fat. From giving her a dress that is purposely too small, asks how she keeps so "well-nourished" with her nut allergy, sneers at how confident she is for not giving in to a traditional wedding dress diet, and then comments: "Just so you know, Kevin likes his girls thin!".
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* YouAreFat: Viola insinuates that Charlie (played by the toned and curvy, especially on the bottom, Music/JenniferLopez) curvy Creator/JenniferLopez) is fat. From giving her a dress that is purposely too small, asks how she keeps so "well-nourished" with her nut allergy, sneers at how confident she is for not giving in to a traditional wedding dress diet, and then comments: "Just so you know, Kevin likes his girls thin!".
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* HistoryRepeats: When Charlie meets her fiancé’s grandmother, she quickly sees how Gertrude and Viola act like how she and Viola have been treating each other for the whole movie. Not wanting to be an antagonistic mother-in-law like Viola or Gertrude, she initially wants to call off the wedding. Ruby helps break the cycle as well by getting Viola to realize that she was interfering with her son’s happiness.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: When Viola is in disbelief over Charlie comparing her to Gertrude, Ruby agrees that it’s messed up. However, she follows it up by saying Viola is ''worse'' than Gertrude.
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* CurseCutShort: After Viola throws her bridesmaid’s dress out of the car, Charlie’s response before the scene transitions is “Motherfu-”.
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* PassiveAggressiveKombat: One of Charlie’s early forms of payback against Viola is picking out a peach bridesmaid’s dress for her mother-in-law to wear at the wedding. At the wedding itself, Viola chooses to wear a white dress instead and flaunts it off in front of the bride.
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* GroinAttack: Rare female-on-female example. "I think you dislocated my vagina!"
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* GroinAttack: Rare female-on-female example. When Ruby tries to stop Viola from mixing nuts into the gravy, Viola knees her in the groin. "I think you dislocated my vagina!"
* HeelRealization: When Viola realizes that she’s channeling her mother-in-law and that her son may be happy with Charlie, she makes amends with her son’s fiancée before the wedding is called off.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Once Charlie starts fighting back against Viola, she picks a peach bridesmaid’s dress for her future mother-in-law to wear. Ruby is in stitches when she sees her boss wearing it at the wedding.
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** Viola--Big Time. She is overly involved in her son’s life and spends most of the movie trying to interfere with his relationship with Charlie, thinking she isn’t good enough for Kevin.
** And Gertrude, according to Viola.
** And Gertrude, according to Viola.
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** Viola--Big Time. She is overly involved in her son’s life and spends most of the movie trying to interfere with his relationship with Charlie, thinking she isn’t good enough for Kevin.
Kevin. Charlie helps sets some boundaries to ensure Viola is a part of Kevin’s life, but isn’t too intrusive.
** And Gertrude, according to Viola. She never thought any woman was good enough for her son and supposedly smothered him to death.
** And Gertrude, according to Viola. She never thought any woman was good enough for her son and supposedly smothered him to death.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeach: Viola gives a seething one to the pop star she interviews on her last show, insinuating that she represents everything wrong with the next generation.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeach: TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Viola gives a seething one to the pop star she interviews on her last show, insinuating that she represents everything wrong with the next generation.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeach: Viola gives a seething one to the pop-star she interviews on her last show.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeach: Viola gives a seething one to the pop-star pop star she interviews on her last show.show, insinuating that she represents everything wrong with the next generation.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeach: Viola gives a seething one to the pop-star she interviews on her last show.
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--> '''Ruby:''' What made you think he wasn't?
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--> '''Ruby:''' What Whatever made you think he wasn't?
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--> '''Viola:''' I just want my son to be happy!
--> '''Ruby:''' What made you think he wasn't?
--> '''Viola:''' I just want my son to be happy!
--> '''Ruby:''' What made you think he wasn't?
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** Charlie realizes that she and Viola are not as dissimilar as she thought when she meets Gertrude, who's not so different to Viola.
** Viola is worse, she attempts to wear white to the wedding, whereas Gertrude wore black (she was in mourning) to Viola's and Kevin's Dad's wedding. And as Ruby points out, Getrude never tried to kill Viola, as Viola does to Charlie.
** Charlie realizes that she and Viola are not as dissimilar as she thought when she meets Gertrude, who's not so different to Viola.
** Viola is worse, she attempts to wear white to the wedding, whereas Gertrude wore black (she was in mourning) to Viola's and Kevin's Dad's wedding. And as Ruby points out, Getrude never tried to kill Viola, as Viola does to Charlie.
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**NotSoDifferentRemark: Charlie realizes that she and Viola are not as dissimilar as she thought when she meets Gertrude, who's not so different to Viola.
** Viola is worse, she attempts to wear white to the wedding, whereas Gertrude wore black (she was in mourning) to Viola's and Kevin's Dad's wedding. And as Ruby points out, Getrude never tried to kill Viola, as Viola does to Charlie.Viola.
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** Viola is worse, she attempts to wear white to the wedding, whereas Gertrude wore black (she was in mourning) to Viola's and Kevin's Dad's wedding. And as Ruby points out, Getrude never tried to kill Viola, as Viola does to Charlie.
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* FreudianExcuse: Part of the reason why Viola is so mean to Charlie is because she was on the reverse end of the situation with her own mother-in-law. She was always belittled and saw as unfit of marrying Gertrude’s son. When Gertrude appears for Kevin’s wedding, she’s still verbally abusing her daughter-in-law and voicing how unhappy she still is that her son married Viola.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Viola--Big Time.
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* MyBelovedSmother: MyBelovedSmother:
** Viola--BigTime.Time. She is overly involved in her son’s life and spends most of the movie trying to interfere with his relationship with Charlie, thinking she isn’t good enough for Kevin.
** Viola--Big
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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferent:
** Charlie realizes that she and Viola are not as dissimilar as she thought when she meets Gertrude, who's not so different to Viola.
** Charlie realizes that she and Viola are not as dissimilar as she thought when she meets Gertrude, who's not so different to Viola.
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** It's implied that Gertrude was just as meddlesome with her son's relationship because she didn't Viola was good enough. This is the reason as to why Viola is so cruel to Charlie.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Despite being played by an actress of Puerto Rican descent, Charlie's ethnicity is left quite vague. She carries an Italian last name (Cantilini), but later on, Kevin's grandmother refers to her as an "exotic Latina".
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* WomanInWhite: Viola
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** Charlie inverts her comeback a bit [[DeadpanSnarker "Well I can always get liposuction, I've been meaning to ask, is it painful?"]]
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** Charlie inverts her comeback a bit [[DeadpanSnarker "Well I can always get liposuction, I've been meaning to ask, is it painful?"]]painful?"]]
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* SpoiledSweet: Kevin comes from an affluent background with an extremely doting mother, but he's still genuinely charming and kind.
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* RelationshipSabotage: Two-fold.
** The whole plot of the movie centers around Viola trying to break Kevin and his girlfriend up because she doesn't think that Charlie is good enough for her son. [[spoiler:She gives up on her plan near the end when she realizes that her son is happy with Charlie and she turned into her own Gertrude.]]
** It's implied that Gertrude was just as meddlesome with her son's relationship because she didn't Viola was good enough. This is the reason as to why Viola is so cruel to Charlie.
** The whole plot of the movie centers around Viola trying to break Kevin and his girlfriend up because she doesn't think that Charlie is good enough for her son. [[spoiler:She gives up on her plan near the end when she realizes that her son is happy with Charlie and she turned into her own Gertrude.]]
** It's implied that Gertrude was just as meddlesome with her son's relationship because she didn't Viola was good enough. This is the reason as to why Viola is so cruel to Charlie.
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** Charlie inverts her comeback a bit [[DeadpanSnarker "Well I can always get liposuction, by the way, does it hurt?"]]
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** Charlie inverts her comeback a bit [[DeadpanSnarker "Well I can always get liposuction, by the way, does I've been meaning to ask, is it hurt?"]]painful?"]]
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** Viola is worse, she attempts to wear white to the wedding, whereas Gertrude wore black (she was in mourning) to Viola's and Kevin's Dad's wedding.
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** Viola is worse, she attempts to wear white to the wedding, whereas Gertrude wore black (she was in mourning) to Viola's and Kevin's Dad's wedding. And as Ruby points out, Getrude never tried to kill Viola, as Viola does to Charlie.
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* YouAreFat: Viola insinuates that Charlie (played by the toned and curvy, especially on the bottom, Music/JenniferLopez) is fat. From giving her a dress that is on purposely too small, asks how she keeps so "well-nourished" with her nut allergy, sneers at how confident she is for not giving in to a traditional wedding dress diet, and then comments: "Just so you know, Kevin likes his girls thin!".
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* YouAreFat: Viola insinuates that Charlie (played by the toned and curvy, especially on the bottom, Music/JenniferLopez) is fat. From giving her a dress that is on purposely too small, asks how she keeps so "well-nourished" with her nut allergy, sneers at how confident she is for not giving in to a traditional wedding dress diet, and then comments: "Just so you know, Kevin likes his girls thin!".
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The film marks the much awaited return of Jane Fonda to cinema, but at the same times, seems to suffer from the [[LoveItOrHateIt Love It or Be Bored By It]] syndrome. On one hand, it can be seen as slow-paced, predictable and rather cliched. But nevertheless, the well-executed comedy of this short little film will likely bring a smile to your face anyway. Remember, always trust Wanda Sykes to brighten up your day.
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The film marks the much awaited return of Jane Fonda to cinema, but at the same times, seems to suffer from the [[LoveItOrHateIt Love It or Be Bored By It]] It syndrome. On one hand, it can be seen as slow-paced, predictable and rather cliched. But nevertheless, the well-executed comedy of this short little film will likely bring a smile to your face anyway. Remember, always trust Wanda Sykes to brighten up your day.
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* FateDrivesUsTogether: Charlie and Kevin see each other at the beach, bump into each other at a coffee shop, and meet again at a catering event Charlie's working.
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* FateDrivesUsTogether: Charlie and Kevin see each other at the beach, bump into each other at a coffee shop, and meet again at a catering event where Charlie's working.
