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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Angie, one of the swingers, gets shown this way (with her right breast displayed from the side briefly as well), which shows off the tattoo which runs all down her back [[IntimateMarks onto her buttocks]].
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Angie, one of the swingers, gets shown this way (with her right breast displayed bare from the side briefly as well), which shows off the tattoo which runs running all down her back [[IntimateMarks onto her buttocks]].
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Angie, one of the swingers, gets shown this way (with her right breast displayed from the side briefly as well), which shows off the tattoo which runs all down her back [[IntimateMarks onto her buttocks]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Sharon is so resentful and bitter against God that she rejects a guaranteed reunion with her loved ones, choosing an empty, miserable life in Purgatory instead.]]
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* GodIsEvil: Sharon comes to believe this. [[spoiler: The film does explore this question; not only believers but atheists get a chance to enter heaven but only if they accept God. Sharon remains in purgatory by her own choice.]]
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* GodIsEvil: Sharon comes to believe this. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The film does explore this question; not only believers but atheists get a chance to enter heaven but only if they accept God. question, as Sharon remains is embittered and disillusioned by a God that chose not to intervene when her husband was murdered and her child was killed by her own hand. In the end, God is benevolent enough to save anyone who accepts faith into their life, including lifelong atheists, but Sharon chooses to stay in purgatory by her own choice.forever because she cannot accept God's allowance of pain and suffering.]]
* IgnoredExpert: Sharon is warned by the child prophet that her impulsive belief to enter the desert could possibly be a trick by the devil, but her hubris prevents her from truly listening.
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* NeverMyFault: Sharon comes off this way after [[spoiler: murdering her daughter]], blaming it all on God.
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* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Mary essentially pressures Sharon comes off this way after [[spoiler: murdering into killing her daughter]], so that she'll go to heaven quicker. Instead of encouraging Mary to [[Film/ASeriousMan accept the mystery]], live, and have faith in God -- the by-the-book Christian response to such calls to action -- Sharon kills her and then spends the rest of the movie angrily blaming it all on God. God for her own actions.]]
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* {{Pride}}: Sharon's FatalFlaw. According to Creator/RogerEbert:
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* {{Pride}}: Sharon's FatalFlaw.FatalFlaw is that she inherently has only a shallow and unexamined understanding of her own faith, swinging dramatically from blaming God for the emptiness in her life (caused by her own actions), to arrogantly believing that she fully understands God's plans, to lashing out when God doesn't immediately answer all of her problems. According to Creator/RogerEbert:
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* BannedFromTheAfterlife: Sharon refuses to give up her anger at God for what people go through and is literally "left behind" across the river, unable to enter Heaven. When asked by her daughter if she knows how long she'll have to stay there she answers: "Yes. Forever."
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* BannedFromTheAfterlife: BarredFromTheAfterlife: Sharon refuses to give up her anger at God for what people go through and is literally "left behind" across the river, unable to enter Heaven. When asked by her daughter if she knows how long she'll have to stay there she answers: "Yes. Forever."
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* BannedFromTheAfterlife: Sharon refuses to give up her anger at God for what people go through and is literally "left behind" across the river, unable to enter Heaven. When asked by her daughter if she knows how long she'll have to stay there she answers: "Yes. Forever."
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* ArchangelGabriel: He appears on horseback, blowing his trumpet, signaling the apocalypse at the end of the film.
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* CreditsGag: A "Miriam Spickler" is listed in the end credits as "Troubleshooter." Miriam Spickler is Mimi Rogers' real name.
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* SilentCredits: The credits play out in complete silence after the ending, where Sharon rejects God and decides to stay in purgatory.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Who is Sharon's cell mate after she is arrested for the murder of her daughter? The hot babe with the back tattoo who was her partner in a foursome in the first act. (Tattoo Lady has also found God in the meantime.)
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Creator/PatrickBauchau appears as Vic, Sharon's swinging partner.
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partner. Creator/WillPatton shows up in the third act as a cop who keeps an eye out on Sharon and her daughter Mary in the desert.
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* IHaveAFamily: Randy says "I have a little girl" to the shotgun-toting SpreeKiller who is shooting up his place of business. The shooter promptly kills him.
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* SpreeKiller: Randy is murdered when an employee that he fired returns with a shotgun and goes on a killing spree.
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* TitleDrop: The child prophet, aged into a teenaged boy after the six year TimeSkip, says at a service that "The rapture is coming," and then predicts that it will come this year.
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* AnswerCut: Sharon, who has heard passing reference to a child prophet, asks "Who is the boy?" Cut to the boy, a child of maybe eight, prophesying in a meeting that Sharon is attending.
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* TimeSkip: Sharon succeeds in recruiting Randy to the church. Cut to "SIX YEARS LATER" and Sharon and Randy attending a service, married, with a daughter.
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* NonNudeBathing: Sharon has a ShowerOfAngst with her clothes still on, after backsliding into her old ways and taking a hitchhiker to a sleazy motel for sex.
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* ShowerScene: An unconventional example--naked Mimi Rogers, everybody, but in a scene where Sharon is taking a scalding hot shower at 3 am so she can get "clean" before accepting God into her life, while telling Randy that she doesn't want to have a guilty conscience any more.
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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: How Sharon winds up getting involved in evangelical Christianity. She's bored both by her boring job and by her swinger lifestyle, which has lost its novelty.
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* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Sharon is a telephone operator, back in the day when there were telephone operators. All she does all day is ask the people calling in for numbers "Is that a business or residence?", before telling them to "Hold for the number." Over and over again. Even the room she works in is boring, with literally the whole room colored in shades of gray.
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* ReligionIsRight: [[spoiler: At first it seems like Sharon's beliefs are not only wrong, but delusional and destructive. By the end of the film, the rapture really does happen and the believers are proven right. However the film itself is more nuanced on the subject and questions that even if what they believe is true is it morally right?]]
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* ReligionIsRight: [[spoiler: At first it seems like Sharon's beliefs are not only wrong, but delusional and destructive. By the end of the film, the rapture really does happen and the believers are proven right. However the film itself is more nuanced on the subject and questions that whether, even if what they believe is true true, is it morally right?]]
