Line #24 Film/AFilmWithMeInIt


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3	''A Film with Me in It'' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Creator/DylanMoran (of ''Series/BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.
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5	Mark (Doherty) is a going-nowhere actor and clarinet player who lives in a crumbling flat with his increasingly disgruntled and frustrated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) and his wheelchair-bound and vegetative brother David (David O'Doherty), and spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend Pierce (Moran), a struggling screenwriter and director who is planning a project which is intended to kickstart their respective careers. His flat is slowly falling to bits because his landlord, Jack (Keith Allen), refuses to do repairs until he gets the rent owed from the perpetually short-of-cash Mark.
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7	[[DisasterDominoes This is significant.]]
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9	One day, a wobbling chandelier finally gives up the struggle against gravity, which kickstarts a chain reaction of accidents that result in an increasing number of dead bodies piling up in the flat before Mark's disbelieving eyes. Panicking, he summons Pierce for help, who hits upon the idea of treating it as if it were a pitch for a film, to enable the two to figure out how to get out of the mess in which they've become embroiled.
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11	!!''A Film With Me in It'' contains examples of:
12	* AccidentalMisnaming: The casting director at Mark's audition at the start of the film calls him 'Martin', showing how little impression he has made.
13	* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- the persona he also uses in most of his comedy, and not a million miles from [[Series/BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.
14	* TheAlcoholic: Pierce is very reluctantly admitting he's one of these.
15	* AsHimself: Creator/JonathanRhysMeyers and Hugh O'Connor
16	* BlackComedy
17	* BoundAndGagged: Pierce and Mark use duct tape to gag the policewoman and bind her to David's wheelchair while they attempt to explain to her what has happened.
18	* TheCastShowOff: In-story; Mark insists on making the hero of Pierce's script a clarinet player so that only he [Mark] can play the role.
19	* ChekhovsGun: ''Very'' frequent:
20	** The loose shelf [[spoiler:collapses and bludgeons Jersey the dog, killing him instantly.]]
21	** The loose chandelier [[spoiler:falls on David, crushing him to death.]]
22	** The wobbly stool near the flickering light [[spoiler:causes Jack, attempting to fix said light, to topple and land on his screwdriver, impaling himself in the neck.]]
23	*** Additionally, the opening credits have [[spoiler:Jack visibly using his screwdriver before placing it in his breast pocket ''with the point upwards'', alluding to how he kills himself.]]
24	** Mark's clarinet [[spoiler:which he forgets to put back on its stand, causes Sally to impale herself on said stand when she faints.]]
25	*** [[spoiler:Additionally, the clarinet comes into play when Mark uses it to fake his death.]]
26	** The loose window that keeps slamming [[spoiler:crushes the neck of the policewoman trying to escape when she disbelieves Mark and Pierce's corpse explanation.]]
27	** Mark's towed car [[spoiler:is notably filled with petrol; it later returns as body disposal when Mark and Pierce use said petrol to burn the car and the bodies.]]
28	* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler:After disposing of his paraplegic brother David's body in a FieryCoverUp and making it [[FakingTheDead appear to be his body]], Mark assumes David's identity.]]
29	* DeathByFallingOver:
30	** [[spoiler:The wobbly stool near the flickering light causes Jack, attempting to fix said light, to topple and land on his screwdriver, impaling himself in the neck.]]
31	** [[spoiler:Upon discovering David's body, Sally faints and is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice when she lands on Mark's clarinet stand.]]
32	* DisasterDominoes: The entire flat is just one of these waiting to happen.
33	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Mark places his necklace and clarinet on the body of his brother David before he and Pierce set fire to the car, so that the body will be assumed to Mark's and [[DeadPersonImpersonation Mark can assume David's identity]].]]
34	* FallingChandelierOfDoom: David is killed when the chandelier pulls free of the ceiling and lands on his wheelchair.
35	* FieryCoverUp: Mark and Pierce put the bodies of [[spoiler:David, Sally and Jack]] is Mark's car before setting fire to it and pushing it over a cliff in an attempt to disguise the identities of the victims and the cause of death.
36	* HeKnowsTooMuch: After a policewoman stumbles upon the scene, Pierce decides she has to go. [[spoiler:He ultimately can't bring himself to do it, but the DisasterDominoes of the flat take care of her anyway.]]
37	* HeroicBSOD: The stress of the day gets to both Mark and Pierce.
38	* ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler:Mark has Pierce cut his scruffy hair into his brother David's neat haircut when he [[FakingTheDead fakes his own death]] and [[DeadPersonImpersonation adopts David's identity]].]]
39	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Inverted; all the deaths are completely accidental, but occur in circumstances and have results that would instantly look suspicious to any outside observer.
40	* ShovelStrike: Pierce deals one to the policewoman after she turns up at the flat to deal with a noise complaint.

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