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7	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/idle_hands.jpg]]
8	[[caption-width-right:350:The touching story of a boy and his right hand.]]
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10	->'''''Idleness:''' A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.''
11	-->-- ''Literature/TheDevilsDictionary''
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13	A 1999 HorrorComedy, starring Creator/DevonSawa (Anton Tobias), Creator/SethGreen (Mick), Creator/EldenHenson (Pnub), Creator/VivicaAFox ([=Debi LeCure=]) and Creator/JessicaAlba (Molly) in her second major studio film to be released (only a few weeks after her first, ''Film/NeverBeenKissed'').
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15	Anton Tobias is a typical lazy stoner. He lives a typical life in suburbia, complete with two pot smoking buddies, a crush on the cute girl, and life is generally good. Until his parents and various other people around town are murdered. The culprit? Anton's right hand.
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17	The movie was a commercial flop, but has garnered a nice little [[CultClassic cult following]] in recent years.
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19	!!This film provides examples of:
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21	* AnArmAndALeg: Anton tries to stop his possessed hand by cutting it off. All this does is allow the hand to roam around independently and kill without Anton being present.
22	* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:Debi skewers the hand with her magic knife, and it disappears in a pathetic little puff of smoke.]]
23	-->'''Mick:''' [[LampshadeHanging That was weak!]]
24	* BigBad: The evil force possessing Anton's hand.
25	* TheCameo: Dexter Holland, lead singer of Music/TheOffspring, as the singer of the band at the dance. Tom Delonge of {{Music/blink 182}} and {{Music/Angels And Airwaves}} fame was a drive-thru employee.
26	* ChainedToABed: When things are getting hot and heavy with Molly, Anton ties his own hand to the bed. He's doing it for her safety, but she thinks he's just being kinky.
27	%% * CoincidentalDodge: Happens several times.
28	* ConnectTheDeaths: They form a pentagram.
29	* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Randy uses this on Debbi after she's knocked out to revive her.
30	* DeadlyRotaryFan: [[spoiler:How the hand killed Tanya.]]
31	* DeathByCameo: [[spoiler: [[Music/TheOffspring Dexter Holland]] gets this via having his scalp ripped off by the hand.]]
32	* DemonicPossession: What's happened to [[spoiler:Anton's hand]].
33	* DescendingCeiling: Played with, in the climax The Hand has (somehow) managed to tie Molly onto the roof of a car that's on a hydraulic lift in a garage, and is trying to kill her by crushing her against the ceiling by ''raising it''.
34	* DirtyCop: Two of them bump into Anton, who recognizes them as dorks back when they were in school. They harass Anton until [[spoiler:he kills them]].
35	* DyingClue: [[spoiler:Anton]]'s name is half-written on the floor, close to where [[spoiler:his father was murdered]].
36	* DynamicEntry: How does Anton's evil hand make itself known at the dance? [[spoiler:By dropping from the ceiling and scalping the singer of the band]]
37	* EvilHand: The antagonist of the film is the evil force that possesses hands. It turns into a [[HelpingHands Helping Hand]] after it's cut off.
38	* ExpressiveMask: When the hand disguises itself as a clown, it gets hit by a puff of stoner smoke, turning the clown face into a derpy look.
39	* {{Fanservice}}:
40	** [[Creator/JessicaAlba Molly]] in a [[SexyWhateverOutfit Sexy angel costume]]. It gets accidentally ripped by Anton and she spends the climax in nothing but her underwear.
41	** To say nothing of the car makeout session between Curtis and Tiffany. [[FanDisservice Too bad the hand wanted a piece of the action.]]
42	** Arguably Tanya in her devil costume, while dancing and flirting with Phub.
43	* FatAndSkinny: Mick and Phub.
44	* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Molly has to grab and shake Tanya a bit to calm her down as their trying to escape through the rotary fan.
45	* GirlNextDoor: Molly, Anton's longtime crush who lived next to his house for years. Although she's much more forward than expected.
46	* GiveGeeksAChance: Tanya compliments Phub's "Make up" at the dance and starts dancing with and kissing him.
47	* GrievousBottleyHarm: Anton kills Mick by stabbing him in the head with a broken beer bottle. It remains wedged in when he comes back as a zombie.
48	* HotAsHell: Tanya wears a tight devil costume to the school dance, and makes out with Phub for a while.
49	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The events of the movie take place on Halloween.
50	* HotWitch: Hot ''Druid'' in Debi's case.
51	* HunterOfMonsters: Debi, who comes from a long line of druidic priestesses sworn to defeat this specific evil.
52	* LifeOrLimbDecision: With his possessed hand trying to off him, Anton chops it off and traps it in the microwave.
53	* MoodWhiplash: Molly and Tanta crawling through the vents, with Tanya musing about how Pnub is cooler than she thought and she kind of likes him (with Molly saying this isn't the time for that) gives way to a very tense and dangerous scene when they round the corner to the DeadlyRotaryFan they need to get through.
54	* MsFanservice: Molly wears a lot of revealing clothes and is only in her underwear for the entire climax. Lampshaded by Mick when her dress gets ripped off.
55	-->'''Mick:''' Bet she wins best costume.
56	* NaughtyNuns: Debbi isn't above having sex, as shown with Randy.
57	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mick and Pnub unleash [[spoiler:Anton's trapped hand]] from the microwave while trying to fix themselves a snack. In their defense, they didn't know [[spoiler:the hand was in the microwave.]]
58	* NunTooHoly: [=Debi LeCure=] is introduced as a Nun investigating The Hand, but is quick to swear when finds it escaped and takes off her nun outfit to reveal {{Tomboy}} clothes underneath and drives off in her trailer.
59	* OffWithHisHead: How [[spoiler:Anton kills Pnub.]]
60	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Mick and Pnub]] act pretty much the same way dead as they did alive.
61	* RefusingParadise: After getting killed, Mick and Pnub refused to "come to the light" because it was too far. Anton blew off Heaven after accidentally getting crushed by a car in a hydraulic lift, because Molly taking care of him in bed "beats the shit out of Heaven."
62	* ShipperOnDeck: Tanya seems to support Molly and Anton being together, saying she bets she knows who Molly is waiting for at the dance.
63	-->'''Tanya:''' Molly, what's bugging you?\
64	'''Holly:''' Just thinking.\
65	'''Tanya:''' (grinning) And I know who about!\
66	'''Holly:''' Just thought he'd be here by now.\
67	'''Tanya:''' He'll be here.
68	* ShoutOut: Don't tell me [[spoiler:Anton's severed hand]] moving about and killing people isn't a reference to ''Film/EvilDead2''.
69	* SinInvitesPossession: This film takes the phrase "Idle Hands are the Devil's playthings" literally.
70	* TheSlacker / TheStoner: Anton at the start of the movie is seen even by his parents as a useless slacker who just smokes all day. His "dream life" lie down every day in bed watching TV.
71	* StrippingSnag: When Molly is tied to a car that's being raised to the ceiling, Anton tries to get her free but only manages to snag away her dress, leaving her in her underwear.
72	* TalkingInBed: The movie opens with Anton's parents talking in bed, just before going to sleep when they're killed by The Hand.
73	* ThoseTwoGuys: Phub and Mick are constantly together and have some comic barter.
74	* VictorySex: When druidic priestess Debi (Creator/VivicaAFox) finally [[spoiler:uses her enchanted dagger to kill the demonically possessed hand]], it's time for this with metalhead Randy (who'd been trying to score with her the whole last act of the film, but she was too focused on her mission).
75	-->'''Debi:''' Well, my work here is done. Time for the ritualistic sex. ''(turns to Randy)'' Coming?
76	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Anton amputates his hand, it tries to kill him, no longer needing him.

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