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8	''Far and Away'' is a 1992 drama film, directed by Creator/RonHoward and starring then-married couple Creator/TomCruise and Creator/NicoleKidman, along with Creator/ThomasGibson and Creator/ColmMeaney.
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10	Set in the 1890s, Irish farm boy Joseph Donnelly (Cruise) and his landlord's daughter Shannon Christie (Kidman) form an unlikely pair as they leave together for Boston in search of their fortunes. In spite of their divergent goals, class differences and BelligerentSexualTension, the spirited-but-spoiled Shannon and bold-but-stubborn Joseph must ultimately stick together to survive and achieve the American dream.
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13	!!''Far and Away'' provides examples of:
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15	* AdventurousIrishViolins: Used throughout the musical score by Music/JohnWilliams to emphasize the optimistic spirit of the Irish Battler.
16	* TheAlcoholic: Daniel Christie often drinks alcoholic beverages at the local pub.
17	* UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream: Many of the characters head to America hoping to take advantage of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Run_of_1893 land grants]] being given out in what would become Oklahoma.
18	* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Happens while Joseph and Shannon are pretending to be siblings.
19	--> '''Molly:''' ''[[BelligerentSexualTension after watching an argument between them]]'' [[YouNeedToGetLaid Why don't you shag her and get it over with?]]
20	--> '''Joseph:''' [[NoJustNoReaction She's... my sister!]]
21	--> '''Molly:''' And I'm your mother.
22	* ArtisticLicenseSports: Joseph's use of speed and agility to sidestep and dodge in a boxing match is treated as a novel style that other boxers, accustomed to simply standing still and pummeling their opponents, have never seen before. In reality, boxers began learning this style about 100 years before the events of the film, when the undersized Daniel Mendoza reigned as the heavyweight champion of Britain in the early 1790s and began training others in his "scientific" approach.
23	* BelligerentSexualTension: TheMovie. Shannon and Joseph spend more time fighting than they do trying to get to Oklahoma.
24	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Stephen Chase and Mr. [=McGuire=] are not as nice as they seem to be.
25	* BreakTheHaughty: Shannon is a spoiled brat when she arrives in Boston, but soon learns some hard lessons that nothing will be handed to her on silver platters any more.
26	* BumblingDad: Mr. Christie.
27	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: "I've burnt many houses in my day. How shall I remember yours?"
28	* ChekhovsGag: Soon after arriving in Boston, Joseph teaches Shannon how to do laundry. Just before the film's climax, we see Shannon teaching her mother the same skill.
29	* CoolOldGuy: Mr. Christie, again. He's much nicer than Joseph could expect.
30	* CrapsackWorld: What [[ThePromisedLand Far and Away]] turns out to be. And what Ireland seemed to be before they left.
31	* DaddysGirl: Shannon is much closer to her father than her mother.
32	* DoomedHometown: At the beginning of the film, Joseph's home is burned down by Chase due to unpaid rent.
33	* DreamingOfAWhiteChristmas: In a heavy snowfall, Joseph and Shannon break into a large house, where they find a Christmas tree and a Christmas dinner set out.
34	%%* DrowningOurRomanticSorrows: Oh, Joseph. Love really sucks.
35	* DrunkWithPower: When Joseph acquires fame and fortune from bare-knuckle boxing, he takes immense personal offense that Shannon doesn't like his hat, and attempts to force her to say it.
36	* EatingTheEyeCandy: Shannon and Joseph sneak peaks at each other dressing.
37	* EasilyForgiven: Daniel forgives Joseph for trying to assassinate him, having been genuinely unaware that his men had destroyed his home.
38	* EroticDream: Joseph has an erotic dream during his job on the railway.
39	* EveryoneCanSeeIt: The entire brothel knows that Joseph and Shannon aren't actually brother and sister.
40	* FairWeatherFriend: The moment Joseph starts being a liability, Mr. [=Kelley=] turns on Joseph, stripping him of his room, his job, his status, his money, and makes him a pariah in the Boston Irish community.
41	* FieryRedhead: Shannon fits this easily. Joseph warns their co-workers at the factory that she has a bite that stings, shortly before she demonstrates by lighting up a foreman who docked her a day's pay (exchanging another two days' pay [[WorthIt just to do it.]])
42	* FightingIrish:
43	** Joseph shows up to the Christie family's house with a gun after Daniel's men burn down the Donnelly home.
44	** Joseph also boxes in Boston to earn money.
45	** Joseph repeatedly says, "I have no wish ta fight ya" right before fighting someone.
46	* GagPenis: Shannon can't help peeking under the container covering Joseph, when he's lying naked. She looks impressed.
47	* GenreThrowback: To the epic historical melodramas of Creator/JohnFord and Creator/DavidLean, particularly ''Film/TheQuietMan'' and ''Film/RyansDaughter''.
48	* GentlemanAdventurer: Daniel Christie wants to seek out adventure. However, having lived in the lap of luxury his whole life, he was no idea how to go about doing it. The Irish Revolution ends up helping him achieve his dream however, as fleeing to America to acquire land ends up being the adventure he'd always wanted.
49	* GoodOldFisticuffs: Joseph learned his near-unbeatable boxing moves from scrapping with his brothers two on one.
50	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: A heroic example. Joseph plots to assassinate Daniel Christie with a rifle for having his home burned down, but the gun backfires on him and he's knocked down.
51	* AnImmigrantsTale: In addition to Joseph and Shannon, Shannon's family also travels to America after their home in Ireland is burned to the ground.
52	* IWillFindYou: The Christies go to America to look for their daughter.
53	* IUhYouToo: Happens in a conversation between Joseph and Shannon about their ideal futures.
54	--> '''Joseph:''' I pretend I love you.
55	--> '''Shannon:''' I pretend I love you too.
56	* MistakenForMurderer: Joseph mistakenly assumes Daniel Christie was responsible for killing his father, so he decides to exact a RoaringRampageOfRevenge on him. However, it turns out that Stephen Chase was the one who killed Joseph's father.
57	* MistressAndServantBoy: Shannon urges Joseph to come with her and be her servant boy while she's running away to America (since she's secretly taken a liking to him, but also because she wants a way to protect herself); he, on the other hand, angrily rejects the idea.
58	** Later, when he's faced with no other alternative (other than getting shot and dying), he does end up becoming her servant for the time being. Although he doesn't miss any opportunities to snark at her while doing so.
59	---> '''Shannon:''' May I ask what you are doing, sitting at my table?
60	---> '''Joseph:''' I'm eating your chocolate cake.
61	* MisplacedAccent: As pointed out by ''[[https://www.irishpost.com/news/tom-cruise-and-nicole-kidmans-irish-american-epic-far-and-away-has-landed-on-netflix-186015 The Irish Post]]'', the Christies, as members of the Anglo-Irish gentry, would be more likely to affect [[IAmVeryBritish posh-sounding Received Pronunciation]] than the broad, often-cringeworthy {{Oireland}} [[UsefulNotes/IrishAccents dialect]] they use in the film.
62	* MotiveDecay: Joseph's initial dream of finding land in Oklahoma by taking factory jobs and winning money on Irish prize fights temporarily subsides. He becomes enamored with his celebrity status in the Boston Irish underground, his "friendship" with Mr. [=Kelley=], and spends much of his money on fancy hats and suits.
63	* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Mr. Christie successfully cheats his way into a very strong piece of Oklahoma land without getting caught.
64	%%* NotQuiteDead: Played for laughs with Joseph's father in the beginning of the movie.
65	* OhCrap: Joseph, when he realizes that Daniel is going to kill him for his involvement in his father's death.
66	* {{Oireland}}: And HOW! Poor farmers, [[FieryRedhead Fiery Redheads]], [[{{Arcadia}} everyone living in a tiny rural village]], whimsical fiddle music, seaside views, lots of drinking and brawling, and some of the worst affected [[UsefulNotes/IrishAccents Oirish accents]] ever put to film.
67	** On the other hand, the film also [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the trope by emphasizing the often glossed-over class conflict between the peasantry and the gentility, including the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_War Irish Land War]].
68	* ThePowerOfLove: Shannon's love confession is what convinces Joseph to cling to life at the very end of the movie.
69	* PrinceCharmingWannabe: Stephen Chase is to Shannon always charming and polite. Too bad he's a dick to everyone else.
70	* ThePromisedLand: Where Shannon and Joseph originally set out for when leaving Ireland.
71	* RedundantRomanceAttempt: As Joseph comes from a poor background and Shannon from a wealthy one, he tries to turn himself into somebody well-dressed and classy, wanting to impress her. This backfires, since she already liked him and how different he was from people in her social class.
72	--> '''Joseph:''' I tried to prove myself to you, but I know nothing of books or alphabets or sun or moon or... All I know is Joseph loves Shannon. That's all that really matters to me.
73	* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: When trying to shoot Mr. Christie (see [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteboys Whiteboyism]]), Joseph's gun blows up in his face, and even ''breaks in half''.
74	--> '''Joseph:''' Captain...Moonlight.
75	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Joseph's father is killed and his home gets burned down, he sets out to exact revenge on Mr. Christie. It doesn't work out, as it turns out that Chase was the one who burned down his home.
76	* SceneryPorn: Gorgeous shots of UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} and Oklahoma.
77	* ShameIfSomethingHappened: This is how Chase threatens Joseph right before the great Oklahoma land race.
78	* SlapSlapKiss: When Shannon and Joseph's BelligerentSexualTension is expressed in its purest physical form.
79	* SlobsVersusSnobs: Joseph is a working class man, while Shannon is an upperclass woman. They clash frequently.
80	* SnowMeansLove: Joseph and Shannon have an odd but touching scene where they confess their love. Meanwhile, it snows outside the home they're taking shelter in.
81	--> '''Shannon:''' Pretend... you love me.
82	--> '''Joseph:''' I pretend I love you.
83	--> '''Shannon:''' I pretend I love you, too.
84	* SpiritedYoungLady: Shannon, who hails from a rich, proper family, but yearns to be free from her mother's uptight, ladylike ways, which is what motivates her to flee to America.
85	* UnclePennybags: Mr. Christie. He is kind and friendly with everybody in his local pub, regularly paying for the tabs of everyone there, and spent his entire life craving adventure. However, he's clueless as to how he is actually earning his money (his land and management staff being inherited from his ancestors, he has no idea how much the system is oppressing his farmers) and genuinely apologizes for Chase burning down Joseph's cottage.
86	* UptownGirl: Shannon is from a much higher station than her romantic partner Joseph.
87	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Cruise and Kidman's accents are notorious among Irish viewers as among the worst ever attempted by Hollywood. They're particularly egregious when compared to the authentic dialects of their Irish co-stars like Creator/ColmMeaney.
88	* WhereDoYouThinkYouAre: During the land rush, Joseph slugs Stephen when the latter pulls a gun on him.
89	-->'''Joseph''': You're not in Ireland anymore, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch you arrogant bastard!]]

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