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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The reading of the Red's will says everything viewers need to know about Red's family; all of his children have brought lawyers and clearly only care about the amount of money they'll be getting, and try to argue with Hamilton when they receive less than they think they deserve. Red's personal comments in the will allude to some of their bad habits, including a long string of failed marriages and being a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob. Red later opens his VideoWill by admitting to Jason that for all his business success, he did a terrible job of raising his family right.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The reading of the Red's will says everything viewers need to know about Red's family; all of his children have brought lawyers and clearly only care about the amount of money they'll be getting, and try to argue with Hamilton when they receive less than they think they deserve. Red's personal comments in the will allude to some of their bad habits, including a long string of failed marriages and being a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob.an UpperClassTwit. Red later opens his VideoWill by admitting to Jason that for all his business success, he did a terrible job of raising his family right.
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Followed by two sequels,2013's ''The Ultimate Life'' and 2015's ''The Ultimate Legacy''.
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Followed by two sequels,2013's sequels, 2013's ''The Ultimate Life'' and 2015's ''The Ultimate Legacy''.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Jason receives [[spoiler:a hundred thousand dollars]], a brief montage plays of him back in his old apartment, talking on the phone about cars and interior design, implying he's succumbed to AesopAmnesia and gone back to his old ways. Then comes a big meeting where he unveils what he's been working on: [[spoiler:a home for children with terminal illnesses and their families, inspired by and named after Emily. And every cent of the hundred grand is going toward building it, in addition to whatever money Jason spent on planning and design offscreen.]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Jason receives [[spoiler:a hundred thousand million dollars]], a brief montage plays of him back in his old apartment, talking on the phone about cars and interior design, implying he's succumbed to AesopAmnesia and gone back to his old ways. Then comes a big meeting where he unveils what he's been working on: [[spoiler:a home for children with terminal illnesses and their families, inspired by and named after Emily. And every cent of the hundred grand million is going toward building it, in addition to whatever money Jason spent on planning and design offscreen.]]
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Followed by two sequels,2013's ''The Ultimate Life'' and 2015's ''The Ultimate Legacy''.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Jason receives [[spoiler:a hundred thousand dollars]], a brief montage plays of him back in his old apartment, talking on the phone about cars and interior design, implying he's succumbed to AesopAmnesia and gone back to his old ways. Then comes a big meeting where he unveils what he's been working on: [[spoiler:a home for children with terminal illnesses and their families, inspired by and named after Emily. And every cent of the hundred grand is going toward building it, in addition to whatever money Jason spent on planning and design offscreen.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: Jason starts out as a spoiled rich kid with a grudge against his grandfather. As he goes through the challenges Red set up for him, he slowly matures, learning to value hard work, true friends, and charity. By the end, he's using his financial privilege for the benefit of others and has forgiven Red for [[spoiler:the unwitting role he played in the death of Jason's father.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: Shortly after being challenged to use his paycheck from working for Gus to help someone else, Jason runs across the hobo he clashed with earlier going through someone's purse. The purse turns out to belong to Alexia and contains documents showing she's behind on rent.
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* NiceGuy: Jason after his arc.
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* NewspaperThinDisguise: Used by the private detective who's keeping an eye on Jason in the hospital waiting room. Jason is well aware that he's there, as revealed when he rips the newspaper out of the detective's hands, hands him his paycheck, and tells him to pay Alexia's rent with it.
* NiceGuy: By the end of the movie, Jasonafter his arc.has matured into this.
* NiceGuy: By the end of the movie, Jason
* RunningGag: The private detective assigned to make sure Jason is actually working on Red's tasks frequently pops up in the background; it's lampshaded in a few scenes, such as when Jason confronts him and tells him to pay Alexia's rent and when the family wonders why he was invited to their Thanksgiving dinner.
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* TakeThat: when Jason gets his paycheck for working on Gus's ranch, Red's video will includes a snarky comment about how the IRS has taken a big chunk out of it already. He starts to say more, but Hamilton steps in to get him back on track.
* TakeThat: when Jason gets his paycheck for working on Gus's ranch, Red's video will includes a snarky comment about how the IRS has taken a big chunk out of it already. He starts to say more, but Hamilton steps in to get him back on track.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: While being held hostage in Ecuador, Jason gets a chance to escape when the thugs holding him don't close the door to his cell properly and then pass out drunk. He starts to make a break for it, but then turns around and goes back to rescue the man who was captured with him, risking his life to get them both to safety.
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* BaitAndSwitch: After Jason receives [[spoiler:a hundred thousand dollars]], a brief montage plays of him back in his old apartment, talking on the phone about cars and interior design, implying he's succumbed to AesopAmnesia and gone back to his old ways. Then comes a big meeting where he unveils what he's been working on: [[spoiler:a home for children with terminal illnesses and their families, inspired by and named after Emily.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The reading of the Red's will says everything viewers need to know about Red's family; all of his children have brought lawyers and clearly only care about the amount of money they'll be getting, and try to argue with Hamilton when they receive less than they think they deserve. Red's personal comments in the will allude to some of their bad habits, including a long string of failed marriages and being a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob. Red later opens his VideoWill by admitting to Jason that for all his business success, he did a terrible job of raising his family right.
* DisappearedDad: Emily's father left Alexia to go to college after she got pregnant, leaving her to raise Emily as a single mom.
* DramaticIrony: One of Red's children is disgusted that all she inherited was a ten-thousand acre cattle ranch, declaring it only good for her husband to entertain his mistress. Shortly after, Gus is introduced, and makes no secret of the fact that he made his fortune running a cattle ranch.
* DramaticIrony: One of Red's children is disgusted that all she inherited was a ten-thousand acre cattle ranch, declaring it only good for her husband to entertain his mistress. Shortly after, Gus is introduced, and makes no secret of the fact that he made his fortune running a cattle ranch.
** When Jason pays Alexia's back rent, he's 100 dollars short of the total, which he promises to repay to Hamilton. The next scene is of him dumping 100 dollars in change and small bills on Hamilton's conference table. Much later, it's shown how he got the money: [[spoiler:collecting cans and bottles to turn in for recycling, selling newspapers and other small items (without a permit) and scooping change out of fountains. Some of these were crimes, but Hamilton chooses to overlook this because the fact that Jason paid the money back at all and put in the work to earn it is a sign of his CharacterDevelopment.]]
** During the Thanksgiving dinner, some of Jason's family members note that most of Red's estate wasn't actually given to anyone and speculate on what happened to it. [[spoiler:It was being held in trust for Jason, and is given to him once he proves he deserves it by passing all of Red's tests and demonstrating genuine CharacterDevelopment.]]
** During the Thanksgiving dinner, some of Jason's family members note that most of Red's estate wasn't actually given to anyone and speculate on what happened to it. [[spoiler:It was being held in trust for Jason, and is given to him once he proves he deserves it by passing all of Red's tests and demonstrating genuine CharacterDevelopment.]]
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Alexia implies that she could have had an abortion when she got pregnant with Emily and the father left her, but she decided to keep the baby. Even though being a single parent is clearly stressful or aggravating at times, especially [[spoiler:once she learns that Emily's leukemia is terminal]], she says she doesn't regret her choice.
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* InadequateInheritor: Red feels this way about all his family, but thinks Jason has it in him to redeem himself.
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* InadequateInheritor: Red feels this way about all his family, but thinks Jason has it in him to redeem himself. This is emphasized by the way he doles out inheritances in his will: while all of his heirs own their inheritance on paper, they have no actual control over their new assets. That is left to various trustees, implicitly to prevent them from selling their new holdings for quick cash or otherwise squandering them. [[spoiler:Only Jason has full control over his inheritance, and only after he proves he'll use it wisely.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A platonic variant with Emily and Alexia. Emily knows her odds of [[spoiler:beating her leukemia again]] are low, and goes out of her way to [[ShipperOnDeck hook her mom up with Jason]] so Alexia will still have someone [[spoiler:after she's gone.]]
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* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:Emily, though we don't know it at first.]]
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* LittlestCancerPatient: [[spoiler:Emily, though we don't know it at first.as revealed partway through. Alexia explains that this is her second battle with leukemia due to her body rejecting a bone marrow transplant that sent the first bout into remission. In an unusual variant, Emily doesn't recover; her cancer is declared terminal about two-thirds of the way in and she dies shortly before the end of the movie.]]
* MissedTheRecital: Alexia gets a call notifying her that Emily [[spoiler:is about to die]] while she and Jason are in a meeting [[spoiler:to unveil Emily's Home]]. Both drop everything and rush to the hospital, but are too late [[spoiler:to fulfill Emily's wish that they would be with her when she died.]]
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* OminousHairLoss: [[spoiler: By the end, Emily has lost her hair, a depressing parallel to what she used to look like.]]
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* OminousHairLoss: [[spoiler: By the end, When Jason learns that Emily has lost is TheLittlestCancerPatient, she's shown to be bald and there's a wig on a stand in her hair, a depressing parallel to what hospital room, implying that her hair fell out from chemotherapy even before she used to look like.met Jason. As the movie goes on, she gets more and more scenes where she's not wearing the wig, which parallels her deteriorating health.]]
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* ShipperOnDeck: Emily is this for her mom and Jason: many of the things she says to them are tailored to push them closer together and, later, to help them realize their growing feelings for each other.
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* WhamShot: Jason peeks into Emily's hospital room, and we get two: [[spoiler:a wig on a stand, and then a shot of Emily with a bald head, revealing that she's TheLittlestCancerPatient.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Alexia calls Jason out on his entitled and arrogant behavior several times. The fact that Jason is genuinely stung by her accusations and puts in the work to do something about them is an early sign that he's developing feelings for her.
* WhatTheHellHero: Alexia calls Jason out on his entitled and arrogant behavior several times. The fact that Jason is genuinely stung by her accusations and puts in the work to do something about them is an early sign that he's developing feelings for her.
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* IllGirl: [[spoiler: Emily.]]
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Emily, [[spoiler:as expected of a LittlestCancerPatient]].
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* AdultFear: Having your child predecease you is the worst thing a parent can possibly experience, as [[spoiler: Red and Alexia]] can attest.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Having your child predecease you is the worst thing a parent can possibly experience, as [[spoiler: Red and Alexia]] can attest.
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* FairWeatherFriend: After Jason's stuff is taken and his account is frozen, no one is willing to help him.
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* FairWeatherFriend: After Jason's stuff is taken and his account is frozen, no one is none of his friends are willing to help him.him despite all the favors he'd done for them in the past.
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* InadequateInheritor: Red feels this way about all his family, but thinks Jason could has it in him to redeem himself.
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* MealTicket: Caitlin sees Jason as this, and abandons him when he asks her to pay for dinner when his account is frozen.
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* MealTicket: Caitlin sees Jason as this, and abandons him when he asks her to pay for dinner when his account is frozen. As such, when she later hears that he has regained his wealth, she returns to rekindle things, but is turned down flat.
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It opens with Mr. Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) being informed of the death of his long-time friend and colleague Howard "Red" Stevens (Creator/JamesGarner). At the reading of his will, Jason, Red's grandson, learns that his grandfather has a gift for him, "the ultimate gift", but only if he can complete a series of tasks, and learn the lessons embedded in them.
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It opens with Mr. Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) (Creator/BillCobbs) being informed of the death of his long-time friend and colleague Howard "Red" Stevens (Creator/JamesGarner). At the reading of his will, Jason, Red's grandson, learns that his grandfather has a gift for him, "the ultimate gift", but only if he can complete a series of tasks, and learn the lessons embedded in them.
