History Film / North

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The Texan parents sing a parody of the ''{{Bonanza}}'' theme song to North. (In another example of [[DidNotDoTheResearch not doing the research]], ''Bonanza'' is set in Nevada.)

* [[{{WhenYouComingHomeDad}} When You Coming Home, Dad?]]: Subverted in the last act, when North realizes his parents were all right after all, even though they don't heap ridiculous praise on him like other parents.

* AWorldwidePunomenon: A literal example.

* InformedAbility: It is stated that North is a prodigy as well as pretty much the perfect child to where other parents use him as a reference (ie North keeps his room clean). However, all of these are stated by [[UnreliableNarrator North himself]].

* IncrediblyLamePun: "Your Honor... the defense rests." [[TheNostalgiaCritic Wow.]] I...I mean, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSVKRjH_4iE&feature=player_detailpage#t=390s wow.]]

* IncrediblyLamePun: "Your Honor... the defense rests."

* CreatorKiller: After this film, Reiner's directorial career plummeted.

* DoingItForTheArt: Reiner wanted to create a touching, personal fable; his very own ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

* MagnumOpusDissonance: As stated under DoingItForTheArt, this was supposed to be Reiner's equivalent to ''[[{{Film/TheWizardOfOz}} The Wizard Of Oz]]''. [[CreatorKiller It wasn't]].

* TakeThat: This movie was the recipient of one of Roger Ebert's rare "zero stars" ratings, which contained the paragraph: "I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it." This paragraph would go on to inspire the title of "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie", a collection of Ebert's most negative reviews.

** another example of not doing the research, since ''Bonanza'' was set in Nevada.

* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: The Texan parents sing a parody of the ''{{Bonanza}}'' theme song to North.

!!''{{North}}'' provides examples of:

* [[spoiler:AllJustADream]]

* ShootTheMoney: DanAckroyd and RebaMcEntire appear as the [[EverythingIsBigInTexas stereotypical Texan family]], and sing the film's only song, a parody of ''{{Bonanza}}'', despite not being a musical.

An 11-year-old boy named North (ElijahWood) tires of his parents (JasonAlexander and JuliaLouisDreyfus), [[ParentalAbandonment who never pay any attention to him]] even though he's a model student, athlete, and even actor. He legally emancipates himself from them, and [[WalkingTheEarth wanders around the world seeking a new family]] with a deadline of Labor Day; if he doesn't find a new family by then, he will be placed in an orphanage. Along the way, he encounters parents that are [[CaptainEthnic Texan, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Amish, etc]], and tries to blend in with each group of parents (well, not the Amish). He finally decides that his own parents are the best with the help of a guardian angel (BruceWillis) who uses [[PaperThinDisguise several guises throughout the film]]. However a conniving kid friend of his, Winchell, used the publicity North's escapades garnered to rally kids everywhere to make their parents more subservient to them. Knowing that North reconciling with his parents would undermine this, he plots to have him killed.

An 11-year-old boy named North (Elijah Wood) tires of his parents (Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfus), [[ParentalAbandonment who never pay any attention to him]] even though he's a model student, athlete, and even actor. He legally emancipates himself from them, and [[WalkingTheEarth wanders around the world seeking a new family]] with a deadline of Labor Day; if he doesn't find a new family by then, he will be placed in an orphanage. Along the way, he encounters parents that are [[CaptainEthnic Texan, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Amish, etc]], and tries to blend in with each group of parents (well, not the Amish). He finally decides that his own parents are the best with the help of a guardian angel (BruceWillis) who uses [[PaperThinDisguise several guises throughout the film]]. However a conniving kid friend of his, Winchell, used the publicity North's escapades garnered to rally kids everywhere to make their parents more subservient to them. Knowing that North reconciling with his parents would undermine this, he plots to have him killed.

* ShootTheMoney: DanAckroyd and RebaMcEntire appear as the [[EverythingIsBigInTexas stereotypical Texan family]], and sing the film's only song, a parody of {{Bonanza}}, despite not being a musical.

An 11-year-old boy named North (Elijah Wood) tires of his parents (Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfus), [[ParentalAbandonment who never pay any attention to him]] even though he's a model student, athlete, and even actor. He legally emancipates himself from them, and [[WalkingTheEarth wanders around the world seeking a new family]] with a deadline of Labor Day; if he doesn't find a new family by then, he will be placed in an orphanage. Along the way, he encounters parents that are [[CaptainEthnic Texan, Alaskan, Hawaiian, Amish, etc]], and tries to blend in with each group of parents (well, not the Amish). He finally decides that his own parents are the best with the help of a guardian angel (BruceWillis) who uses [[PaperThinDisguise several guises throughout the film]]. However a conniving kid friend of his, Winchell, used the publicity North's escapades garnered to rally kids everywhere to make their parents more subservient to them. Knowing that North reconciling with his parents would undermine this, he plots to have him killed. It is also known as one of the worst films of all time, as RogerEbert attested to in his [[CausticCritic most famous film review quote]].

* UnfortunateImplications: The "all just a dream" ending means that the highly unflattering representations of the different cultures are based entirely on North's mental image of them, and therefore, ''North is a gigantic fucking racist''.

* UnfortunateImplications: As pointed out by TheNostalgiaCritic, the "all just a dream" ending means that the highly unflattering representations of the different cultures are based entirely on North's mental image of them, and therefore, ''North is a gigantic fucking racist''.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Just about every depiction of every ethnicity.
** [[spoiler: Justified because it's all in North's imagination and that's all he knows.]]

* AllJustADream