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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexandra and Sin-Dee's friendship takes a serious blow, Dinah is thrown out of her motel and left alone, Razmik's relationship with his family is ruined ([[KickTheSonOfABitch not that he didn't cause it himself]]) and Chester gets zero comeuppance, but Sin-Dee and Alexandra at least restore their friendship after the latter helps the former after a transphobic attack.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexandra and Sin-Dee's friendship takes a serious blow, Dinah is thrown out of her motel and left alone, Razmik's relationship with his family is ruined ([[KickTheSonOfABitch not (not that he didn't cause it himself]]) himself) and Chester gets zero comeuppance, but Sin-Dee and Alexandra at least restore their friendship after the latter helps the former after a transphobic attack.]]
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the 2013 Estonian film ''Film/{{Tangerines}}''. Or a 1997 [[Literature/{{Tangerine}} novel]] of the same name.
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[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the 2013 Estonian film ''Film/{{Tangerines}}''. Or a 1997 [[Literature/{{Tangerine}} [[Literature/Tangerine1997 novel]] of the same name.
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* TransgenderFetishization: An InUniverse example. Razmik is exclusively attracted to transgender women, to the point where he insists a cisgender prostitute he has hired leave and berates her for working his usual block.
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* TransgenderFetishization: An InUniverse example. TransChaser: Razmik is exclusively attracted to transgender women, to the point where he insists a cisgender prostitute he has hired leave and berates her for working his usual block. block.
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* ReWatchBonus: Once you know that [[spoiler: Alexandra slept with Chester]], certain scenes have an entirely new meaning.
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''Tangerine'' is a 2015 independent [[{{Dramedy}} dramedy]] film directed by Creator/SeanBaker and starring breakout actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor. The film was critically acclaimed primarily for its portrayal of its two transgender leads in a manner that did not delve too deeply into their identity while still affording them due respect. Historically, ''Tangerine'' is notable for providing the film for the first Academy Award campaign for an openly transgender actress supported by a film producer, and for having been shot entirely on an [=iPhone=].
Transgender sex worker [[GhettoName Sin-Dee Rella]], who has just finished a 28-day prison sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally reveals that Sin-Dee's [[DestructiveRomance boyfriend and pimp]] Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood for Chester and the woman.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the 2013 Estonian film ''Film/{{Tangerines}}''. Or a 1997 [[Literature/{{Tangerine}} novel]] of the same name.
!!''Tangerine'' provides examples of:
%%* AerithAndBob: Sin-Dee Rella and Alexandra.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexandra and Sin-Dee's friendship takes a serious blow, Dinah is thrown out of her motel and left alone, Razmik's relationship with his family is ruined ([[KickTheSonOfABitch not that he didn't cause it himself]]) and Chester gets zero comeuppance, but Sin-Dee and Alexandra at least restore their friendship after the latter helps the former after a transphobic attack.]]
* DramaticSitdown: Ashken sits down at the diner when learning about her son in law's nightly activities.
* EasilyForgiven: After spending the entire movie searching to confront Chester, Sin-Dee forgives him after a couple of minutes even after knowing how many times he cheated on her. [[spoiler:Though she is indeed shaken by the revelation that he also had sex with Alexandra.]]
* ExcrementStatement: A group of transphobes throws urine on Sin-Dee after luring her over to their van.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Happens over the course of about half of a day on Christmas Eve.
* HomophobicHateCrime: At the end, transgender streetwalker Sin-Dee is is attacked by a transphobic potential customer who dumps a cup full of urine on her, and calls her slurs.
* ICanExplain: Razmik tries to explain the situation at the diner to his mother-in-law but it's hopeless.
* KarmaHoudini: Chester. He gets Sin-Dee thrown in jail for his crimes, and is forgiven by proposing to her. While in jail, he cheats on her; she gets angry, but as soon as they meet, all is forgotten, even though his excuses are pathetic and largely involve completely dismissing [[JerkassWoobie Dinah]].
%%* {{Ladyella}}: [[MyNaymeIs Sin-Dee]], in this case.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Dinah lost hers when Sin-Dee dragged her from the motel room.
* MissKitty: Madam Jillian, though she seems to care little for her employees; she lets Dinah be dragged out by Sin-Dee and only cares for what it will do for sales, and later [[spoiler: turns her out on the street, having replaced her, by the time Dinah returns]].
* MyNaymeIs: Sin-Dee Rella is a this for [[{{Ladyella}} Cinderella]], though it's fairly obvious that this isn't Sin-Dee's given name.
* NoTellMotel: Madam Jillian's brothel is in a particularly off-putting one.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Ashken is suspicious about her son-in-law's frequent disappearances, especially in the middle of a Christmas Eve dinner, and sets off to discover his whereabouts. Justified, since it turns out he's cheating on his wife/her daughter with a plethora of prostitutes; ultimately, she's less obnoxious than she is a [[HelicopterParents exceptionally]] [[MamaBear protective mother]] over her [[ExtremeDoormat daughter]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The HotBlooded Sin-Dee, who had no qualms dragging the screaming Dinah through LA, can only walk away wordlessly after she learns [[spoiler:Alexandra had sex with Chester as well, a far cry from her usual behavior which shows the depth of how shaken she is by the betrayal.]]
* OrangeBlueContrast: The film as a whole is saturated with very vibrant color, but primarily blue/greens and orange/yellows.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Sin-Dee assumes "Mamasan" is a mail-order bride.
%%* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Chester is trying to be "gangsta".
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Most versions of the movie do not subtitle Razmik, his family, or the foreign taxi driver.
%%* RedLightDistrict: Santa Monica Boulevard, evidently.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sin-Dee is the HotBlooded, aggressive, passionate red oni to Alexandra's calmer, patient, cautious blue oni.
* RunningGag: No one can seem to remember D[[spoiler:inah]]'s name, just that it begins with a "D".
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Sin-Dee would have had no real way of learning about Chester's cheating until it was brought up by Alexandra, who would have known that Sin-Dee would eventually find out that she too had sex with Chester.]]
* SassyBlackWoman: Sin-Dee, though she's given more depth than this trope usually implies.
* SilentCredits: Only ambient sounds from the laundromat can be heard during the end credits.
* StepfordSmiler: Razmik's wife seems resigned to turn a blind eye to what her husband is up to as a marital duty.
* {{Streetwalker}}: Sin-Dee, Alexandra, Selena, and virtually all of the women in the film, with the exception of Madam Jillian and her girls. Their lodgings in the motel brothel aren't a beacon of glamour, either.
* TheTaxi: Razmik is a taxi driver, and many scenes involve his eccentric customers. The taxi is also where he engages in affairs with prostitutes, and the erratic hours and poor pay of his job provide a fair excuse for his near perpetual absence. Later, it becomes a plot point as his mother-in-law sets out to investigate him.
* TransgenderFetishization: An InUniverse example. Razmik is exclusively attracted to transgender women, to the point where he insists a cisgender prostitute he has hired leave and berates her for working his usual block.
%%* TwistedChristmas: This is not your typical Christmas story.
* TwoTimingWithTheBestie: Sin-Dee spends most of the movie hunting down her boyfriend Chester after he cheated on her with a cis girl, but as soon as she reunites with him he is EasilyForgiven and everything's back to normal. However, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Alexandra]] also slept with Chester, and both relationships seem over, though the film ends with a bit of a (gender-flipped) BrosBeforeHoes scenario as [[spoiler:Alexandra]] gingerly starts repairing her relationship with Sin-Dee.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sin-Dee and Alexandra. They insult each other, give each other crap, and even occasionally [[spoiler: sleep with each other's boyfriends]], but at the end of the day, they have each other - and in fact they may be the ''only'' person to have the other's back.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of Razmik's passengers throws up multiple times in and around his taxi.
* WhamLine: At the end, when Sin-Dee confronts Chester.
--> '''Chester:''' What didn't (Alexandra) tell you? She didn't tell you that [[spoiler: me and her were knocking it three weeks ago!]] You didn't want to f***ing tell her ''that'' part!
* WomanScorned: Sin-Dee. Upon learning her boyfriend has cheated on her, she scours Los Angeles, identifies the mistress, physically drags her back across the city, finds the boyfriend, and then causes a scene in the middle of a donut shop. And that's the undramatic version.
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''Tangerine'' is a 2015 independent [[{{Dramedy}} dramedy]] film directed by Creator/SeanBaker and starring breakout actresses Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor. The film was critically acclaimed primarily for its portrayal of its two transgender leads in a manner that did not delve too deeply into their identity while still affording them due respect. Historically, ''Tangerine'' is notable for providing the film for the first Academy Award campaign for an openly transgender actress supported by a film producer, and for having been shot entirely on an [=iPhone=].
Transgender sex worker [[GhettoName Sin-Dee Rella]], who has just finished a 28-day prison sentence, meets her friend Alexandra, another trans sex worker, at a donut shop in Hollywood on Christmas Eve. Alexandra accidentally reveals that Sin-Dee's [[DestructiveRomance boyfriend and pimp]] Chester has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Sin-Dee storms out to search the neighborhood for Chester and the woman.
[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused]] with the 2013 Estonian film ''Film/{{Tangerines}}''. Or a 1997 [[Literature/{{Tangerine}} novel]] of the same name.
!!''Tangerine'' provides examples of:
%%* AerithAndBob: Sin-Dee Rella and Alexandra.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Alexandra and Sin-Dee's friendship takes a serious blow, Dinah is thrown out of her motel and left alone, Razmik's relationship with his family is ruined ([[KickTheSonOfABitch not that he didn't cause it himself]]) and Chester gets zero comeuppance, but Sin-Dee and Alexandra at least restore their friendship after the latter helps the former after a transphobic attack.]]
* DramaticSitdown: Ashken sits down at the diner when learning about her son in law's nightly activities.
* EasilyForgiven: After spending the entire movie searching to confront Chester, Sin-Dee forgives him after a couple of minutes even after knowing how many times he cheated on her. [[spoiler:Though she is indeed shaken by the revelation that he also had sex with Alexandra.]]
* ExcrementStatement: A group of transphobes throws urine on Sin-Dee after luring her over to their van.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Happens over the course of about half of a day on Christmas Eve.
* HomophobicHateCrime: At the end, transgender streetwalker Sin-Dee is is attacked by a transphobic potential customer who dumps a cup full of urine on her, and calls her slurs.
* ICanExplain: Razmik tries to explain the situation at the diner to his mother-in-law but it's hopeless.
* KarmaHoudini: Chester. He gets Sin-Dee thrown in jail for his crimes, and is forgiven by proposing to her. While in jail, he cheats on her; she gets angry, but as soon as they meet, all is forgotten, even though his excuses are pathetic and largely involve completely dismissing [[JerkassWoobie Dinah]].
%%* {{Ladyella}}: [[MyNaymeIs Sin-Dee]], in this case.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Dinah lost hers when Sin-Dee dragged her from the motel room.
* MissKitty: Madam Jillian, though she seems to care little for her employees; she lets Dinah be dragged out by Sin-Dee and only cares for what it will do for sales, and later [[spoiler: turns her out on the street, having replaced her, by the time Dinah returns]].
* MyNaymeIs: Sin-Dee Rella is a this for [[{{Ladyella}} Cinderella]], though it's fairly obvious that this isn't Sin-Dee's given name.
* NoTellMotel: Madam Jillian's brothel is in a particularly off-putting one.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Ashken is suspicious about her son-in-law's frequent disappearances, especially in the middle of a Christmas Eve dinner, and sets off to discover his whereabouts. Justified, since it turns out he's cheating on his wife/her daughter with a plethora of prostitutes; ultimately, she's less obnoxious than she is a [[HelicopterParents exceptionally]] [[MamaBear protective mother]] over her [[ExtremeDoormat daughter]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The HotBlooded Sin-Dee, who had no qualms dragging the screaming Dinah through LA, can only walk away wordlessly after she learns [[spoiler:Alexandra had sex with Chester as well, a far cry from her usual behavior which shows the depth of how shaken she is by the betrayal.]]
* OrangeBlueContrast: The film as a whole is saturated with very vibrant color, but primarily blue/greens and orange/yellows.
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Sin-Dee assumes "Mamasan" is a mail-order bride.
%%* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Chester is trying to be "gangsta".
* RealityHasNoSubtitles: Most versions of the movie do not subtitle Razmik, his family, or the foreign taxi driver.
%%* RedLightDistrict: Santa Monica Boulevard, evidently.
* RedOniBlueOni: Sin-Dee is the HotBlooded, aggressive, passionate red oni to Alexandra's calmer, patient, cautious blue oni.
* RunningGag: No one can seem to remember D[[spoiler:inah]]'s name, just that it begins with a "D".
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Sin-Dee would have had no real way of learning about Chester's cheating until it was brought up by Alexandra, who would have known that Sin-Dee would eventually find out that she too had sex with Chester.]]
* SassyBlackWoman: Sin-Dee, though she's given more depth than this trope usually implies.
* SilentCredits: Only ambient sounds from the laundromat can be heard during the end credits.
* StepfordSmiler: Razmik's wife seems resigned to turn a blind eye to what her husband is up to as a marital duty.
* {{Streetwalker}}: Sin-Dee, Alexandra, Selena, and virtually all of the women in the film, with the exception of Madam Jillian and her girls. Their lodgings in the motel brothel aren't a beacon of glamour, either.
* TheTaxi: Razmik is a taxi driver, and many scenes involve his eccentric customers. The taxi is also where he engages in affairs with prostitutes, and the erratic hours and poor pay of his job provide a fair excuse for his near perpetual absence. Later, it becomes a plot point as his mother-in-law sets out to investigate him.
* TransgenderFetishization: An InUniverse example. Razmik is exclusively attracted to transgender women, to the point where he insists a cisgender prostitute he has hired leave and berates her for working his usual block.
%%* TwistedChristmas: This is not your typical Christmas story.
* TwoTimingWithTheBestie: Sin-Dee spends most of the movie hunting down her boyfriend Chester after he cheated on her with a cis girl, but as soon as she reunites with him he is EasilyForgiven and everything's back to normal. However, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Alexandra]] also slept with Chester, and both relationships seem over, though the film ends with a bit of a (gender-flipped) BrosBeforeHoes scenario as [[spoiler:Alexandra]] gingerly starts repairing her relationship with Sin-Dee.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Sin-Dee and Alexandra. They insult each other, give each other crap, and even occasionally [[spoiler: sleep with each other's boyfriends]], but at the end of the day, they have each other - and in fact they may be the ''only'' person to have the other's back.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: One of Razmik's passengers throws up multiple times in and around his taxi.
* WhamLine: At the end, when Sin-Dee confronts Chester.
--> '''Chester:''' What didn't (Alexandra) tell you? She didn't tell you that [[spoiler: me and her were knocking it three weeks ago!]] You didn't want to f***ing tell her ''that'' part!
* WomanScorned: Sin-Dee. Upon learning her boyfriend has cheated on her, she scours Los Angeles, identifies the mistress, physically drags her back across the city, finds the boyfriend, and then causes a scene in the middle of a donut shop. And that's the undramatic version.
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