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* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: After Tom's slap rendered Bill unconscious and apparently without pulse and Gottfried's "healing" didn't work, Janet manages to bring him back with barely half a minute of CPR.
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* TheIdealist: As (cynic) April points out, Janet is an idealist who hopes to really make a change in politics.
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* InUniverseSoundtrack: A record player in Janet's and Bill's house delivers the sound track for the film in-universe.


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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Bill's revelation that he is terminally ill and will die soon starts the plot.
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* SymbolicallyBrokenObject: Near the beginning of the movie, a pane of glass in the window shatters, heralding that other things are soon to break.
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* BitchSlap: Janet slaps Bill after learning he had an affair, later Tom slaps Bill too.


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* TheCynic: April, as Janet straight up calls her. For example, when learning about Jinny's triplets, she would much rather laud Janet's new post, as children are born every day and there are already too many humans.
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* LoveDodecahedron: As Janet learns, Bill betrays her with Marianne, Tom's wife, and also had a brief fling with Martha back in university. [[spoiler:Also, Janet and Marianne, going from Janet's words in the last scene.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: Bill and Janet are both cheating on each other [[spoiler: with the same woman.]]
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* NoEnding: Janet pulls a gun on [[spoiler: Marianne, Tom's wife]] and it cuts to credits.


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* SanitySlippage: Tom gets increasingly erratic as the film progresses, not helped by all the cocaine he's on.
* YourCheatingHeart: Bill and Janet are both cheating on each other [[spoiler: with the same woman.]]
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Janet and Bill have both been having an affair without the other realising, and with the same person, no less]].

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Tragicomedy directed by Sally Potter in which Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minister and drama ensues.

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''The Party'' is a 2017 tragicomedy film
directed by Sally Potter in which Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) (Creator/KristinScottThomas) hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minister and drama ensues.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Janet and Bill have both been having an affair without the other realising, and with the same person, no less]].

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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Janet and Bill have both been having an affair without the other realising, and with the same person, no less]].less]].
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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: The mysterious person having an affair with both Bill and Janet]].
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* LipstickLesbian: Jinny, who is dressed more femininely than her lover Martha and is pregnant with triplets.

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* LipstickLesbian: Jinny, who is dressed more femininely than her lover Martha wife, Martha, and is pregnant with triplets.
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* ButchLesbian: Martha, who dresses and behaves more masculinely than her lover Jinny.

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* ButchLesbian: Martha, who dresses and behaves more masculinely than her lover wife, Jinny.
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* BiTheWay: [[spoiler: The mysterious person having an affair with both Bill and Janet]].
* ButchLesbian: Martha, who dresses and behaves more masculinely than her lover Jinny.


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* LipstickLesbian: Jinny, who is dressed more femininely than her lover Martha and is pregnant with triplets.
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Tragicomedy directed by Sally Potter in which Janet Kristin Scott Thomas hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minister and drama ensues.

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Tragicomedy directed by Sally Potter in which Janet Kristin (Kristin Scott Thomas Thomas) hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minister and drama ensues.
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Tragicomedy directed by Sally Potter in which Janet (Creator/KristinScottThomas) hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minster and DramaEnsues

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Tragicomedy directed by Sally Potter in which Janet (Creator/KristinScottThomas) Kristin Scott Thomas hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minster Minister and DramaEnsues
drama ensues.



* NoPartyGiven: Although it's heavily implied that Janet is a Labour MP, the party name is never explicitly stated.

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* NoPartyGiven: Although it's heavily implied that Janet is a Labour MP, the party name is never explicitly stated.stated.
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Janet and Bill have both been having an affair without the other realising, and with the same person, no less]].
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Tragicomedy directed by Sally Potter in which Janet (Creator/KristinScottThomas) hosts a house party to celebrate her appointment as the Shadow Health Minster and DramaEnsues

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* AllLesbiansWantKids: PlayedForDrama. Jinny is thrilled at the prospect of becoming a mum, but Martha is more ambivalent and worried about losing Jinny to their children.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome
* NoPartyGiven: Although it's heavily implied that Janet is a Labour MP, the party name is never explicitly stated.

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