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| 3 | ''Smashed'' is a 2012 independent dramedy film starring Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead, Creator/AaronPaul, Creator/NickOfferman, Creator/MeganMullally and Creator/OctaviaSpencer. |
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| 5 | Kate (Winstead) and Charlie (Paul) like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter . . . and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something’s got to give. But change isn’t exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she’s been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie. |
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| 7 | Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeKLxspQWl8 here.]] |
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| 9 | !!Tropes applying to this film: |
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| 11 | * ActorAllusion: Kate confesses to accidentally smoking crack while drunk leaving Charlie surprised. Which is hilarious considering Aaron Paul's [[Series/BreakingBad previous experience with drugs]]. |
| 12 | * TheAlcoholic: Both Kate and Charlie before Kate sobers up. |
| 13 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Part of why Kate begins to become sober. |
| 14 | * BeingGoodSucks: The film paints a very sober (no pun intended) and realistic picture of taking responsibility for ones actions. [[spoiler: Kate comes clean to the principal about lying about being pregnant to cover up her alcoholism. She still gets fired.]] |
| 15 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Kate is one year sober, and has found a new job. However, her life is much less exciting, the new job pays much less, and she and Charlie have split up, and are probably not getting back together.]] |
| 16 | * FreudianExcuse: Both of Kate's parents are alcoholics. TruthInTelevision, since children of addicts often become addicts themselves. |
| 17 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: Mary Elizabeth Winstead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TSXnTthpS4 is actually a very good singer]], but grates on the ears performing drunken karaoke. |
| 18 | * LiesToChildren: Kate tells her kindergarten class that she is pregnant after she arrives to the school hungover. Slowly becomes a SnowballLie as it spreads to her co-workers but she clears it up causing some more trouble. |
| 19 | * OffTheWagon |
| 20 | * NailedToTheWagon: Kate notes that she would prefer it if Charlie stopped drinking too. |
| 21 | * TooMuchInformation: Non-comedic example. Davies not only confesses his attraction to Kate, but also describes, in detail, his fantasies about her. Since trampling on boundaries is part of the disease, he makes a sincere apology, and Kate forgives him. |
| 22 | * TropaholicsAnonymous: Kate of course joins an alcoholics anonymous group to handle her problem. |
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