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* BegoneBribe: Cynthia cements her role as a bitch by offering to write Samantha a cheque for whatever she wants if she leaves and never sees Doc again.
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Alexander Blondell insists that his clients address him as Mr. Blondell. Sam's repeated attempts to refer to him as 'pal, 'buddy' or even 'Alexander' are met with a polite but firm correction:
-->"It's Mr. Blondell. M-I-S-T-E-R B-L-O-N-D-E-L-L."
-->"It's Mr. Blondell. M-I-S-T-E-R B-L-O-N-D-E-L-L."
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* ColorMeBlack: Sam is [[HeManWomanHater hateful misogynist]] who makes a drunken rant about the uselessness of women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday. The next morning, he wakes up to discover that he is now a she.
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* HeManWomanHater: Sam is an unrepentant misogynist who states that "women are only useful for one thing". The proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday causes him to under a KarmicTransformation.
* KarmicTransformation: After being rude and disrespectful about women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, HeManWomanHater Sam wakes up the next morning and discovers that he has become a woman.
* KarmicTransformation: After being rude and disrespectful about women to the proprietor of TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday, HeManWomanHater Sam wakes up the next morning and discovers that he has become a woman.
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Sam (Brock Harris) is a womanizer with a real chip on his shoulder about women in general and his best friend Doc's (Sean Kleier) fiancee in particular. After leaving a bachelor party drunk and angry, Sam stumbles into 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe'. The shopkeeper (Stacy Keach) listens to Sam complain about women, and after expressing disapproval of Sam's misogyny offers him a mysterious drink. The next day, Sam wakes up as a beautiful woman (Natalie Knepp). "Samantha", as Sam now calls herself is forced to live as a woman and pretending to be her male self's cousin until she can find a way back...
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Sam (Brock Harris) is a womanizer with a real chip on his shoulder about women in general and his best friend Doc's (Sean Kleier) fiancee in particular. After leaving a bachelor party drunk and angry, Sam stumbles into 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe'. The shopkeeper (Stacy Keach) (Creator/StacyKeach) listens to Sam complain about women, and after expressing disapproval of Sam's misogyny offers him a mysterious drink. The next day, Sam wakes up as a beautiful woman (Natalie Knepp). "Samantha", as Sam now calls herself is forced to live as a woman and pretending to be her male self's cousin until she can find a way back...
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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted. Sam, [[GenderBender now transformed into Samantha]], gets her period and, never having experienced on before, thinks she is hemorrhaging.
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* HairToss: One if the feminine tricks to attract male attention that Blondell teaches Samantha. Doc is visibly stunned when she demonstrates it for him.
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* WrongNameOutburst: Cynthia sneaks back into Doc's apartment and attempts to reconcile with him by massaging him while he's asleep. Not quite waking up, Doc murmurs "That feels good, Sam". This leads to Cynthia [[MistakenForGay assuming that Doc is gay]].
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* HeadbandNecktie: Steve is wearing his necktie as headband by the end of his StagParty.
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* BookOnTheHead: Blondell trains Samantha to walk with a book on her head to improve her posture as part of her GirlinessUpgrade. Blondell himself demonstrates this for her, and is much better at than her (at first).
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* ForgotToMindTheirHead: Samantha is hiding under desk with Margaret when her boss Seymour sticks his head under the desk. Samantha sits up suddenly and bangs her head on the underside of the desk.
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* CampGay: Blondell (albeit a more subdued version).
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* TheLadette: Initially Samantha is this, acting like the slob she did when male and dressing in whatever casual clothes she can find. After spending a couple of weeks getting GirlinessUpgrade from a fashion and style consultant she becomes much more feminine in dress and manner but is still happy to throw around a football.
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* TheLadette: Initially Samantha is this, acting like the slob she did when was as a male and dressing in whatever casual clothes she can find. After spending a couple of weeks getting GirlinessUpgrade from a fashion and style consultant she becomes much more feminine in dress and manner but is still happy to throw around a football.
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Sam is a 2016 GenderBender RomanticComedy film directed by Nicholas Brooks and written by Nicholas Brooks and John J. Gallagher. It stars Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Morgan Fairchild, and Brock Harris.
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* UnkemptBeauty: Pre-makeover Samantha. Even dressed in baggy sweats, with messy hair, no makeup and...less-than-stellar hygiene, she's quite pretty.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Switch}}''. The plots and main characters are similar, though unlike in the earlier film Sam is still alive when he is transformed into a girl and [[spoiler: Samantha both survives and makes a definite choice to become a woman permanently.]]
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Switch}}''.''Film/{{Switch|1991}}''. The plots and main characters are similar, though unlike in the earlier film Sam is still alive when he is transformed into a girl and [[spoiler: Samantha both survives and makes a definite choice to become a woman permanently.]]
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* MistakenForGay: Cynthia briefly suspects that Doc is actually gay and is attracted to his childhood friend, Sam. She's only half wrong.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Samantha tries to convince Doc of her real identity by bringing up a couple of really private anecdotes that only Sam and Doc know about. It doesn't work, because Doc comes to the more logical conclusion that Sam simply told these private things to this crazy woman.
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* CatFight: The hostility between Samantha and Cynthia gets physical at one point. It's entirely a philosophical question as to whether this counts as WouldHitAGirl, but hey, Cynthia started it.
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* MakeoverMontage: Samantha's sessions with the image consultant Mr. Blondell, which allow her to dress, look and move more like a woman.
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* NoodleImplements: Apparently Seymour and Lulu's sexual adventures prominently feature a spatula in some capacity.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: A mild example. The original slovenly, badly-groomed Samantha is already quite cute and manages to attract her fair share of male attention; but once she's been given a makeover, that cute girl is suddenly, as Seymour aptly puts it, stunning.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: When Blondell refers to Doc as Sam's boyfriend, both Sam and Doc immediately correct him.
-->'''Samantha:''' Oh, he's not my boyfriend.
-->'''Doc:''' I'm ''not'' her boyfriend.
-->'''Blondell:''' [[DeadpanSnarker They both said, rather loudly...]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: Explicit in Samantha's case. After becoming a woman, she finds she no longer has any sexual interest in women; but she is also still sexually uninterested in men. That is, until she finds herself becoming attracted to Doc - after which point, Doc is the only person who inspires any arousal in her whatsoever.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: When Blondell refers to Doc as Sam's boyfriend, both Sam and Doc immediately correct him.
-->'''Samantha:''' Oh, he's not my boyfriend.
-->'''Doc:''' I'm ''not'' her boyfriend.
-->'''Blondell:''' [[DeadpanSnarker They both said, rather loudly...]]
* SingleTargetSexuality: Explicit in Samantha's case. After becoming a woman, she finds she no longer has any sexual interest in women; but she is also still sexually uninterested in men. That is, until she finds herself becoming attracted to Doc - after which point, Doc is the only person who inspires any arousal in her whatsoever.
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* HeelRealization: Samantha gets hit hard by this. About half way through the film Margaret has a conversation with Samantha about her crush on Sam (having no idea that Samantha and her 'cousin' are the same person.) What provokes Samantha to feel so guilty is not that Margaret is complaining about Sam's jerkishness, but actually the ''reverse'', that she misread his insensitive behaviour as being a [[JerkassFacade facade]], when Samantha knows full well it was really just insensitivity.
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** FirstLawOfGenderBending: Once the change happens Sam seems to be stuck as Samantha: the shop has vanished into thin air and there is no other way back. Samantha does consider gender reassignment surgery but after Doc reveals what that would actually involve she's sufficently shaken to decide against, at least for now. [[spoilers: Eventually the shop does return and Samantha is offered the chance to go back to being male.]]
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** FirstLawOfGenderBending: Once the change happens Sam seems to be stuck as Samantha: the shop has vanished into thin air and there is no other way back. Samantha does consider gender reassignment surgery but after Doc reveals what that would actually involve she's sufficently shaken to decide against, at least for now. [[spoilers: [[spoiler: Eventually the shop does return and Samantha is offered the chance to go back to being male.]]
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* CharacterDevelopment: Sam/Samantha slowly goes from an woman-hating HandsomeLech to sweet natured, thoughtful young woman genuinely in love with someone [[spoiler: who ends up choosing to stay as a woman.]]
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Sam is a 2016 GenderBender RomanticComedy film directed by Nicholas Brooks and written by Nicholas Brooks and John J. Gallagher. It stars It stars Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Morgan Fairchild, and Brock Harris.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Switch}}''. The plots and main characters are similar, though unlike in the earlier film Sam is still alive when he is transformed into a girl and [[spoiler: Samantha both survives and makes a definite choice to become a woman permanently.]]
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* PluckyOfficeGirl: Margaret mixed with a dose of HypercompetentSideck. She does a lot of work both Sam and his boss take credit for all the while nursing a hopeless crush on Sam. After Sam becomes a woman, 'Samantha' strikes up a genuine friendship with Margaret and feels a lot of guilt for taking advantage of her for so long. [[spoiler: Later after a successful report Samantha and Margaret both work on Samantha persuades her boss to give the promotion to Margaret.]]
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* PluckyOfficeGirl: Margaret mixed with a dose of HypercompetentSideck.HypercompetentSidekick. She does a lot of work both Sam and his boss take credit for all the while nursing a hopeless crush on Sam. After Sam becomes a woman, 'Samantha' strikes up a genuine friendship with Margaret and feels a lot of guilt for taking advantage of her for so long. [[spoiler: Later after a successful report Samantha and Margaret both work on Samantha persuades her boss to give the promotion to Margaret.]]
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Sam (Brock Harris) is a womanizer with a real chip on his shoulder about women in general and his best friend Doc's (Sean Kleier) fiancee in particular. After leaving a bachelor party drunk and angry, Sam stumbles into 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe'. The shopkeeper (Stacy Keach) listens to Sam complain about women, and after expressing disapproval of Sam's misogyny offers a mysterious drink. The next day, Sam wakes up as a beautiful woman (Natalie Knepp). "Samantha", as Sam now calls herself is forced to live as a woman and pretending to be her male self's cousin until she can find a way back...
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Sam (Brock Harris) is a womanizer with a real chip on his shoulder about women in general and his best friend Doc's (Sean Kleier) fiancee in particular. After leaving a bachelor party drunk and angry, Sam stumbles into 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe'. The shopkeeper (Stacy Keach) listens to Sam complain about women, and after expressing disapproval of Sam's misogyny offers him a mysterious drink. The next day, Sam wakes up as a beautiful woman (Natalie Knepp). "Samantha", as Sam now calls herself is forced to live as a woman and pretending to be her male self's cousin until she can find a way back...
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Sam is a 2016 GenderBender RomanticComedy film directed by Nicholas Brooks and written by Nicholas Brooks and John J. Gallagher. It stars It stars Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Morgan Fairchild, and Brock Harris.
Sam (Brock Harris) is a womanizer with a real chip on his shoulder about women in general and his best friend Doc's (Sean Kleier) fiancee in particular. After leaving a bachelor party drunk and angry, Sam stumbles into 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe'. The shopkeeper (Stacy Keach) listens to Sam complain about women, and after expressing disapproval of Sam's misogyny offers a mysterious drink. The next day, Sam wakes up as a beautiful woman (Natalie Knepp). "Samantha", as Sam now calls herself is forced to live as a woman and pretending to be her male self's cousin until she can find a way back...
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!!''Sam'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AttractiveBentGender: Technically in play in that everyone treats Samantha as a stunner (albeit initially as a stunner who really needs a makeover). However Sam is also a HandsomeLech so it isn't really an upgrade as such, just a good looking man being turned into a good looking woman.
* CharacterDevelopment: Sam/Samantha slowly goes from an woman-hating HandsomeLech to sweet natured, thoughtful young woman genuinely in love with someone [[spoiler: who ends up choosing to stay as a woman.]]
* GenderBender: The entire focus of the plot sees the male Sam magically turned into the female Samantha.
* TheLadette: Initially Samantha is this, acting like the slob she did when male and dressing in whatever casual clothes she can find. After spending a couple of weeks getting GirlinessUpgrade from a fashion and style consultant she becomes much more feminine in dress and manner but is still happy to throw around a football.
* MoodWhiplash: The first fifteen minutes or so before Sam arrives at 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe' are noticably darker with Sam played as an unrepentant {{Jerkass}} misogynist. After he turns into Samantha the story becomes much lighter and more comedic Samantha is played more as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold even before her CharacterDevelopment.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe is a classic example complete with enigmatic shopmaker. An offhand reference hints he may be an angel but his identity is never confirmed.
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Sam is a 2016 GenderBender RomanticComedy film directed by Nicholas Brooks and written by Nicholas Brooks and John J. Gallagher. It stars It stars Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Morgan Fairchild, and Brock Harris.
Sam (Brock Harris) is a womanizer with a real chip on his shoulder about women in general and his best friend Doc's (Sean Kleier) fiancee in particular. After leaving a bachelor party drunk and angry, Sam stumbles into 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe'. The shopkeeper (Stacy Keach) listens to Sam complain about women, and after expressing disapproval of Sam's misogyny offers a mysterious drink. The next day, Sam wakes up as a beautiful woman (Natalie Knepp). "Samantha", as Sam now calls herself is forced to live as a woman and pretending to be her male self's cousin until she can find a way back...
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!!''Sam'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AttractiveBentGender: Technically in play in that everyone treats Samantha as a stunner (albeit initially as a stunner who really needs a makeover). However Sam is also a HandsomeLech so it isn't really an upgrade as such, just a good looking man being turned into a good looking woman.
* CharacterDevelopment: Sam/Samantha slowly goes from an woman-hating HandsomeLech to sweet natured, thoughtful young woman genuinely in love with someone [[spoiler: who ends up choosing to stay as a woman.]]
* GenderBender: The entire focus of the plot sees the male Sam magically turned into the female Samantha.
* TheLadette: Initially Samantha is this, acting like the slob she did when male and dressing in whatever casual clothes she can find. After spending a couple of weeks getting GirlinessUpgrade from a fashion and style consultant she becomes much more feminine in dress and manner but is still happy to throw around a football.
* MoodWhiplash: The first fifteen minutes or so before Sam arrives at 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe' are noticably darker with Sam played as an unrepentant {{Jerkass}} misogynist. After he turns into Samantha the story becomes much lighter and more comedic Samantha is played more as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold even before her CharacterDevelopment.
* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe is a classic example complete with enigmatic shopmaker. An offhand reference hints he may be an angel but his identity is never confirmed.
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