Line #0 Film/DaddysLittleGirls


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3	2007 movie written and directed by Creator/TylerPerry. Monty James, a mechanic, (Creator/IdrisElba) enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney, Julia (Creator/GabrielleUnion) while trying to wrest custody of his three daughters China, Lauryn and Sierra from his treacherous ex-wife Jennifer and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more.
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5	!!This film provides examples of:
6	* AbusiveParents: Jennifer's boyfriend beats the kids and it is implied Jennifer either wants the oldest to sell drugs or become a prostitute. The oldest is 12.
7	* AndStarring: Louis Gossett, Jr.
8	%%* BigBadDuumvirate: Jennifer and Joseph.
9	* TheCameo: Creator/CraigRobinson as Byron the rapper.
10	* CareerVersusMan: Julia has this problem. She's struggling with her thoughts on how she will tackle dating a man who works "beneath" her and who has three girls from a previous relationship.
11	* DeconstructedTrope: The movie eventually deconstructs the UptownGirl trope with Julia. When Julia begins to fall in love with Monty, her friends object to this because they felt that Julia was too good for Monty. After going through some [[DefrostingIceQueen well-needed]] CharacterDevelopment, Julia defies her friend's complaints by staying with Monty until the end since he was a NiceGuy who treated her right.
12	* DefrostingIceQueen: Julia comes off as very stuck up in the beginning. She becomes much sweeter when she falls in love with Monty.
13	%%* DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff
14	* DoubleStandard: So Julia's friends have no problem with setting her up on a blind date with a 40-year-old unemployed wannabe rapper who [[NoIndoorVoice shouts across the restaurant for "skrimps"]] (and can't even rap), but they frown on her dating a kind-hearted mechanic who wants to be a good father and own his own auto repair shop. [[SarcasmMode Sure. That's fair.]]
15	* EatingTheEyeCandy: In the scene after Julia meets the girls, she and Monty are getting to know each other. At one point, he takes his shirt off, and Julia is staring HARD...before he looks at her and she turns away as fast as she can.
16	* EvilMatriarch: Jennifer. You know she's evil when her own kids are afraid of her. She also tries to recruit her oldest daughter into prostitution and she harshly disciplines the youngest.
17	* {{Gangbangers}}: Jennifer's boyfriend runs a drug-trafficking ring.
18	* GoodParents:
19	** Despite his mistakes, Monty is a very loving father towards his girls. He even went through hell and back just to get his girls back. It's saying something that the girls felt it was worth it to walk from their mother's house to their dad's ''three hours after midnight'', disregarding the court orders, because they would have rather been cared for by their loving father than their abusive mother.
20	** It's greatly implied that Jennifer used to be this towards the girls until she changed into a terrible person who no longer cared about her daughters.
21	* HeKnowsTooMuch: DiscussedTrope, the main reason the neighborhood residents refuse to report Joseph, because they are afraid he will kill them if they do.
22	* HighSchoolSweethearts: Monty admits that he and Jennifer used to be this until Jennifer's attitude changed for the worst.
23	* {{Hypocrite}}: Julia's friends get on her for dating Monty (who was her driver and mechanic), but they had no issue with setting her up on a blind date with men who were the following: a failed unemployed rapper (someone who cant even rap) and a man who was married.
24	* MiscarriageOfJustice: Monty [[spoiler: was falsely accused of raping a [[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome white girl]] who he hooked up with at a party.]]
25	* {{Mouthy Kid}}s: Monty's girls are like this to him at first.
26	* NiceGuy: Monty is a nice guy who is a loving father to his kids and treats everyone with respect.
27	* NoodleIncident: Why Monty went to jail is kind of hinted at in bits and pieces until the last 30 minutes of the movie.
28	* NeverTrustATrailer: Commercials for the film make it seem as if its going to be the typical "comedy" scenario of children pulling pranks on the person who's dating their divorced parent.
29	* {{Oner}}: There's a long Steadicam tracking shot during the scene when Monty brings Julia home. The shot lasts for several minutes.
30	* PapaWolf: Monty, [[spoiler: who beats the living ''hell'' out of Jennifer's boyfriend when he finds out about what he did to Monty's kids.]]
31	%%* ParentWithNewParamour
32	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Monty finds out his kids are being beaten, he hops in his car, finds Jennifer's car, slams into them, gets out, drags Joseph out, and proceeds to deliver a [[CurbStompBattle complete and utter ass beating]] to him.
33	* SelectiveObliviousness: Monty purposely hits Jennifer and her boyfriend Joseph's car and then opens the door and beats up a dizzy Joseph. At Joseph's trial, the entire neighborhood willingly testifies against him for the drug charges, but keeps their mouth shut when Monty is accused of assaulting him. This is actually pretty justified, as the neighborhood wanted Joseph gone for always terrorizing them.
34	* UselessBystanderParent: Deliberately done with Jennifer when her boyfriend beats China because she wouldn't stop crying.
35	* WhereDaWhiteWomenAt: Discussed, this is the reason [[spoiler: Monty was falsely arrested for raping a white girl]].
36	* WouldHurtAChild: Poor China is on the receiving end of this with Jennifer's boyfriend.

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