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A chance meeting brings a nearly perfect couple together in L.A. Todd (Sweeney) is a part-time programmer and housesitter, who is attempting to explore his own sexuality, which he always assumed to be gay but is reconsidering. Rory (Sweeney) is a struggling actress trying to deal with intense cynicism. They instantly become enraptured with their conversational chemistry with each other. Complicating matters is that he suffers from OCD, and his friends - especially those in the gay community - believe in clear lines of sexuality being drawn.

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A chance meeting brings a nearly perfect couple together in L.A. Todd (Sweeney) is a part-time programmer and housesitter, who is attempting to explore his own sexuality, which he always assumed to be gay but is reconsidering. Rory (Sweeney) (Findlay) is a struggling actress trying to deal with intense cynicism. They instantly become enraptured with their conversational chemistry with each other. Complicating matters is that he suffers from OCD, and his friends - especially those in the gay community - believe in clear lines of sexuality being drawn.

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* ObsessivelyOrganized: Todd legitimately suffers from OCD, which causes him a lot of problems, but it does help him with his housesitting business, as homeowners love that he organizes their closets.



* SuperOCD: Todd legitimately suffers from OCD, which causes him a lot of problems, but it does help him with his housesitting business, as homeowners love that he organizes their closets.

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* SuperOCD: Todd legitimately suffers from OCD, which causes him a lot of problems, but it does help him with his housesitting business, as homeowners love that he organizes their closets.
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* NoBisexuals: Todd's friends take offense to the idea that Todd is trying to date women, rejecting the notion that he could possibly be anything other than 100% gay.

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* NoBisexuals: Todd's friends take offense to the idea that Todd is trying to date women, rejecting the notion that he could possibly be anything other than 100% gay. Later averted with Todd's therapist, who mentions he might be a "Kinsey 3".
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** Todd's parents, Wallace and Topanga, while arguing that happiness isn't the most important pursuit in life, cite "the blonde kid in ''Film/PayItForward''", and then wonder what happened to him. [[spoilers: He died.]]

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** Todd's parents, Wallace and Topanga, while arguing that happiness isn't the most important pursuit in life, cite "the blonde kid in ''Film/PayItForward''", and then wonder what happened to him. [[spoilers: [[spoiler: He died.]]

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* ShoutOut: Todd and Rory initially hit it off because they both love ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', based on Rory's name.

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* ShoutOut: Todd and Rory initially hit As it off because they both love takes some inspiration from ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', based on these are a given:
** Todd and Rory initially hit it off because
Rory's name.name reminds them of ''[[Characters/GilmoreGirls Rory Gilmore]]''.
** Todd's parents, Wallace and Topanga, while arguing that happiness isn't the most important pursuit in life, cite "the blonde kid in ''Film/PayItForward''", and then wonder what happened to him. [[spoilers: He died.]]
** Todd cites ''Film/AsGoodAsItGets'' during an argument, and Rory counters with ''Film/SomethingsGottaGive'' and ''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow''.
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* GenreThrowback: WordOfGod states that the 4:3 Aspect Ratio is meant to reference the way that Rory and Todd's presented relationship is in line with those in Romantic Comedies during UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode era, when the ratio was standard.



* ShoutOut: Todd and Rory initially hit it off because they both love ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', based on Rory's name.

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* ShoutOut: Todd and Rory initially hit it off because they both love ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', based on Rory's name.name.
* SuperOCD: Todd legitimately suffers from OCD, which causes him a lot of problems, but it does help him with his housesitting business, as homeowners love that he organizes their closets.
* WackyMarriageProposal: The climax of the film comes when Todd serenades Rory outside her office after they have broken up. It appears to fail, as Rory recognizes that their relationship problems are nowhere near addressed, but there is some ambiguity...
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* RapeAsBackstory: Implied with Rory, who definitely has ''some'' type of trauma in her past.
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* AmbiguousEnding: Do Rory and Todd end up together as a couple? They are together at the end, but also there is a third man (who we have never seen) who seems intimate with both of them. Are they a thrupple? Is he Todd's lover while he maintains a friendship with Rory? Or vice-versa?
* AmbiguouslyGay: The plot in a nutshell. Todd isn't quite sure of his sexual orientation, as he always assumed he was gay because of his atypical approach to masculinity. However, because his OCD completely zaps his sex drive, he has a hard time sexually connecting with men, and decides to try dating women.
* NoBisexuals: Todd's friends take offense to the idea that Todd is trying to date women, rejecting the notion that he could possibly be anything other than 100% gay.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Subverted. It seems at first that the chemistry between Todd and Rory is based on their ability to have these for hours, but the conversations actually evolve into intimately baring their souls to each other, and have quite a lot of meaning.
* ShoutOut: Todd and Rory initially hit it off because they both love ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', based on Rory's name.
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[[caption-width-right:350:All talk. No Sex.]]
''Straight Up'' is a 2019 Independent American Romantic Comedy, written, produced and directed by Creator/JamesSweeney, and starring Sweeney, Creator/KatieFindlay, Creator/RandallPark, and Creator/BetsyBrandt.

A chance meeting brings a nearly perfect couple together in L.A. Todd (Sweeney) is a part-time programmer and housesitter, who is attempting to explore his own sexuality, which he always assumed to be gay but is reconsidering. Rory (Sweeney) is a struggling actress trying to deal with intense cynicism. They instantly become enraptured with their conversational chemistry with each other. Complicating matters is that he suffers from OCD, and his friends - especially those in the gay community - believe in clear lines of sexuality being drawn.

Originally based on Sweeney's earlier short film ''Normal Doors'', the film gained partial funding through a crowdfunding campaign on the website Seed & Spark, and later distributed by Strand Releasing.

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