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3 | A 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Creator/JaneCampion, starring Creator/KateWinslet and Creator/HarveyKeitel. |
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5 | While on a spiritual journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Australian Ruth Barron (Winslet) falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters (Keitel), a macho American cult deprogrammer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth. |
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8 | !!Tropes: |
9 | * BittersweetEnding: PJ's many attempts to cure Ruth and win her love all fail. A year later, they've both settled down, found different lovers and had children but still manage to profess their love for one another from afar. |
10 | * {{Deprogram}}: PJ is a deprogrammer called an "exit counselor" who's hired by Ruth's family to break her from what they believe is Indian guru Baba's indoctrination. However, he falls for Ruth while doing so. |
11 | * FanDisservice: |
12 | ** A distressed, naked Ruth having lit the tree and her sari on fire. |
13 | ** Harvey Keitel is a red dress. |
14 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: PJ watches in lust as Ruth dances and makes out with another woman in a club. |
15 | * ItDoesntMeanAnything: Ruth's refusal to get emotionally intimate with PJ after sex and believes it was only a casual thing. |
16 | * ItMeantSomethingToMe: PJ falls in love with Ruth after having sex with her and tries to be with her, believing it was something special. It does not go well. |
17 | * KavorkaMan: PJ is not particuarly good-looking. Even so, he has sex with ''two'' different beautiful (and [[MayDecemberRomance much younger]]) women during the film, Ruth and Yvonne, while it's also revealed he's got a committed girlfriend too, Carol, who's also quite attractive. Both of them even come onto him and not the opposite. |
18 | * MadLove: PJ goes mad trying to cure Ruth and ends up falling for her despite her reluctance. |
19 | * MayDecemberRomance: Though their ages aren't given specifically, Ruth has sex with PJ, who is clearly much older. Their actors have a 36 year age gap. [[ItDoesntMeanAnything She declares this meant nothing]], though he [[ItMeantSomethingToMe disagrees strongly]] and wants to be with her. |
20 | * MsFanservice: Ruth is a beautiful young woman, spending a large part of the film wearing a tight-fitting blouse which outlines her large bust, along with showing full frontal nudity in a couple scenes. She also makes out with another woman in a club, [[GirlOnGirlIsHot turning PJ on while he watches]]. |
21 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Indian Guru Baba is clearly based on real life spiritual charlatans like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy Sri Chinmoy]]. |
22 | * QueerEstablishingMoment: Ruth, after having sex with PJ, makes out with another woman in a club as he [[GirlOnGirlIsHot watches lustfully]]. |
23 | * SexEqualsLove: What PJ believes after sleeping with Ruth. |
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