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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole movie's premise is basically an {{Anvilicious}} metaphor for social inequality.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole movie's premise is basically an {{Anvilicious}} a less than subtle metaphor for social inequality.
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** Bob Baruchowitz, from Up Top, and an employee at Transworld. He befriends Adam and assists him both with getting on his feet in the company and with meeting with Eden. [[spoiler:He also figures out how to make the pink pollen workable, and buys the patent for it out from under Transworld's noses—in Albert & Co.'s name.]]

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** Bob Baruchowitz, from Up Top, and an employee at Transworld.of Transworld from Up Top. He befriends Adam and assists him both with getting on his feet in the company and with meeting with Eden. [[spoiler:He also figures out how to make the pink pollen workable, and buys the patent for it out from under Transworld's noses—in Albert & Co.'s name.]]



* GoodSamaritan: Bob Baruchowitz, from Up Top, and an employee at Transworld. He befriends Adam and assists him both with getting on his feet in the company and with meeting with Eden.

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* GoodSamaritan: Bob Baruchowitz, from Up Top, and an employee at Transworld.of Transworld from Up Top. He befriends Adam and assists him both with getting on his feet in the company and with meeting with Eden.

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* LawOfInverseFertility: Adam and Eden have sex once on the top of a mountain. Eden gets pregnant with twins.


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* OneNightStandPregnancy: Adam and Eden have sex once on the top of a mountain. Eden gets pregnant with twins.
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* ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway: Adam narrates at the start saying it's set on a unique to the universe two planet system.


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* {{Planetville}}: It's not mentioned if other parts of the planets have towns that aren't facing eachother.


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* TidallyLockedPlanet: The two planets are tidally locked to eachother to the point where a skyscraper bridges them with gravity flipping halfway. They seem to orbit eachother to generate a day/night cycle.
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* UptownGirl: Eden is from Up Top, where everybody is rich, and Adam is from Down Below, where everybody is poor. They fall in love.

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* UptownGirl: Eden is from Up Top, where everybody is rich, and Adam is from Down Below, where everybody is poor. They fall in love.love.
* ZeroGSpot: Happens between Adam and Eden.
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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Double gravity. The film runs on it (see RuleOfThree below). [[TropesAreNotBad Makes for an awesome concept, though]].

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* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Double gravity. The film runs on it (see RuleOfThree below). [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Makes for an awesome concept, though]].
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* BabiesEverAfter: In the end, Adam and Eden are reunited and Eden tells Adam that she is pregnant with twins.
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* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Adam is an orphan, so he has nothing to lose and he can leave everything to find back his lover Eden.



* StarCrossedLovers: Adam and Eden comes from two different worlds and contact between these is usually forbidden. To make things worse, Eden is amnesiac.

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* StarCrossedLovers: Adam and Eden comes from two different worlds and contact between these is usually forbidden. To make things worse, Eden is amnesiac.amnesiac.
* UptownGirl: Eden is from Up Top, where everybody is rich, and Adam is from Down Below, where everybody is poor. They fall in love.
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* StarCrossedLovers: Adam and Eden comes from two different world and contact between these is usually forbidden. To make things worse, Eden is amnesiac.

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* StarCrossedLovers: Adam and Eden comes from two different world worlds and contact between these is usually forbidden. To make things worse, Eden is amnesiac.

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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: The baby conceived by Adam and Eden brings together Up Top and Down Below.

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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: The baby babies conceived by Adam and Eden brings bring together Up Top and Down Below.


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* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The top executive of Transworld is the big bad of the film.


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* LawOfInverseFertility: Adam and Eden have sex once on the top of a mountain. Eden gets pregnant with twins.
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* AmnesiacLover: Adam and Eden were in love. In the beginning, Eden suffers from head trauma, leading to amnesia. When Adam finds her at Transworld she doesn't recognize him at first.

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''Upside Down'' is a 2012 sci-fi/romance film dealing with life in a rather unique planetary system. There are two planets, the downtrodden Up Top and the prosperous Down Below, which have opposite gravities due to a physical phenomenon known as "dual gravity". Contact between the worlds is usually forbidden. Things change when Adam (Creator/JimSturgess), from the Down Below, falls in love with Eden (Creator/KirstenDunst), from Up Top…

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''Upside Down'' is a 2012 sci-fi/romance film dealing with life in a rather unique planetary system. There are two planets, the downtrodden Up Top Down Below and the prosperous Down Below, Up Top, which have opposite gravities due to a physical phenomenon known as "dual gravity". Contact between the worlds is usually forbidden. Things change when Adam (Creator/JimSturgess), from the Down Below, falls in love with Eden (Creator/KirstenDunst), from Up Top…



* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: The baby conceived by Adam and Eden brings together Up Top and Down Below.



* BreakUpMakeUpScenario: Adam tries to charm Eden, who is amnesiac. He is quite successful, until the presentation of the cream, where Eden understands that he uses a fake identity and that he is from Down Below. They become reconciled later in Dos Mundos Café, because Eden recovers old memories of Adam.



* GoodSamaritan: Bob Baruchowitz, from Up Top, and an employee at Transworld. He befriends Adam and assists him both with getting on his feet in the company and with meeting with Eden.



* SoftWater: When Adam is falling out of the Up Top ocean into the Down Below ocean.

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* SoftWater: When Adam is falling out of the Up Top ocean into the Down Below ocean.ocean.
* StarCrossedLovers: Adam and Eden comes from two different world and contact between these is usually forbidden. To make things worse, Eden is amnesiac.

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''Upside Down'' is a 2012 sci-fi/romance film dealing with life in a rather unique planetary system. There are two planets, Up Top and Down Below. Contact between the worlds is usually forbidden. Things change when Adam, from Down Below, falls in love with Eden, from Up Top…

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''Upside Down'' is a 2012 sci-fi/romance film dealing with life in a rather unique planetary system. There are two planets, the downtrodden Up Top and the prosperous Down Below.Below, which have opposite gravities due to a physical phenomenon known as "dual gravity". Contact between the worlds is usually forbidden. Things change when Adam, Adam (Creator/JimSturgess), from the Down Below, falls in love with Eden, Eden (Creator/KirstenDunst), from Up Top…
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole movie's premise is basically an {{Anvilicious}} metaphor for social inequality.



* SceneryPorn: Lots of it when both Up Top and Down Below are juxtaposed, be it an exterior shot or on the interior of the Transworld building.

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* SceneryPorn: Lots of it when both Up Top and Down Below are juxtaposed, be it an exterior shot or on the interior of the Transworld building.building.
* SoftWater: When Adam is falling out of the Up Top ocean into the Down Below ocean.
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-->''Gravity. They say you can't fight it. Well, I disagree. What if love was stronger than gravity?''
--> — '''Adam'''

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-->''Gravity.->''"Gravity. They say you can't fight it. Well, I disagree. What if love was stronger than gravity?''
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* [[Adorkable Adorkable]]: Adam.
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* Adorkable: Adam.

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* Adorkable: [[Adorkable Adorkable]]: Adam.
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* Adorkable: Adam.
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*** However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not cause one to spontaneously combusted a few hours later, and smooching with offworlders seems to work OK as well.

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*** However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not doesn't cause one to spontaneously combusted combust a few hours later, and smooching with offworlders seems to work OK as well.
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* However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not cause one to spontaneously combusted a few hours later, and smooching with offworlders seems to work OK as well.

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* *** However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not cause one to spontaneously combusted a few hours later, and smooching with offworlders seems to work OK as well.
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* However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not cause one to spontaneously combusted a few hours later.

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* However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not cause one to spontaneously combusted a few hours later.later, and smooching with offworlders seems to work OK as well.
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* However, these rules can be ignored as the plot requires. For example, eating food from the other planet does not cause one to spontaneously combusted a few hours later.
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* BilingualBonus: The Café Dos Mundos–Restaurant of Two Worlds.

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* BilingualBonus: The Café Dos Mundos–Restaurant of Two Worlds.Mundos—Two Worlds Café.
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* InASingleBound: Inverse matter can help you pull this off.
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* AsceticAesthetic: Floor Zero, the Director's office, and the smoking room at Transworld.

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* AsceticAesthetic: The cubicle area of the Transworld building's Floor Zero, the Director's office, and the smoking room at Transworld.Zero.
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* MegaCorp: Transworld.

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* MegaCorp: Transworld. They have a ''lot'' of clout, and Adam loses his parents (and, perhaps, his Aunt Becky) because of them.
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* MegaCorp: Transworld.
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-->''Gravity. They say you can't fight it. Well, I disagree. What if love was stronger than gravity?''
--> — '''Adam'''

''Upside Down'' is a 2012 sci-fi/romance film dealing with life in a rather unique planetary system. There are two planets, Up Top and Down Below. Contact between the worlds is usually forbidden. Things change when Adam, from Down Below, falls in love with Eden, from Up Top…

!!This film contains examples of:
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Double gravity. The film runs on it (see RuleOfThree below). [[TropesAreNotBad Makes for an awesome concept, though]].
* AsceticAesthetic: Floor Zero, the Director's office, and the smoking room at Transworld.
* BilingualBonus: The Café Dos Mundos–Restaurant of Two Worlds.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The suits at [[MegaCorp Transworld]] are different colors depending upon if you're from Up Top or Down Below.
* CoolOldGuy: Two, both of whom help Adam out in their own ways.
** Albert, from Down Below, with the business he runs. He lets Adam experiment with the pink pollen and, despite his reservations, helps Adam sneak Up Top to meet with Eden.
** Bob Baruchowitz, from Up Top, and an employee at Transworld. He befriends Adam and assists him both with getting on his feet in the company and with meeting with Eden. [[spoiler:He also figures out how to make the pink pollen workable, and buys the patent for it out from under Transworld's noses—in Albert & Co.'s name.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Down Below is far worse-off than Up Top. Up Top, through Transworld, even sucks all the oil out of it.
* EasyAmnesia: Eden gets this. In the beginning of the film she suffers from head trauma, leading to amnesia. When Adam finds her at Transworld she doesn't recognize him at first.
* MeaningfulName: Adam and Eden.
* MundaneUtility: You've got a formula for weight-canceling stuff that doesn't burn like regular inverse matter? Turn it into a beauty cream!
* OhCrap: Eden walks in on Adam's presentation of the beauty cream. He tries to turn around and avoid her seeing him, but she addresses him by Bob's name. From this, Transworld catches on that he's been using Bob's ID to get to Up Top—not to mention how Eden takes it when he says that she must be confused.
* PlotHole: Inverse matter seems only to obey the third law when it's (in)convenient. There's some hints that at least some types of organic matter may be immune, though. Still doesn't explain how the Transworld building or the oil pipelines don't spontaneously combust, though—or, for that matter, the food designed with the double-gravity in mind.
* RuleOfThree: Three laws of the double-planet system:
** 1. Objects are affected by the gravity of the world they come from, not the other world.
** 2. An object's weight can be offset using inverse matter (matter from the other world).
** 3. Inverse matter burns after a couple hours' contact with normal matter.
* SceneryPorn: Lots of it when both Up Top and Down Below are juxtaposed, be it an exterior shot or on the interior of the Transworld building.

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