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2	[[caption-width-right:312:''[[{{Tagline}} Comedy. Exposed.]]'']]
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4	''Movie 43'' is a 2013 American comedy AnthologyFilm, comprising 12 short sketches directed by Peter Farrelly, Creator/ElizabethBanks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Creator/RustyCundieff, James Duffy, Creator/GriffinDunne, Patrik Forsberg, Creator/JamesGunn, Creator/BobOdenkirk, Creator/BrettRatner and Jonathan van Tulleken.
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6	It features an insane AllStarCast including Banks, Creator/KristenBell, Creator/HalleBerry, Creator/LeslieBibb, Creator/KateBosworth, Creator/GerardButler, Creator/JoshDuhamel, Creator/AnnaFaris, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TerrenceHoward, Creator/HughJackman, Creator/JohnnyKnoxville, Creator/JustinLong, Creator/ChristopherMintzPlasse, Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz, Creator/LievSchreiber, Creator/SeannWilliamScott, Creator/EmmaStone, Creator/JasonSudeikis, Creator/UmaThurman, Creator/NaomiWatts, and Creator/KateWinslet.
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8	The 12 sketches are surrounded by a FramingDevice, which differs between the U.S. and international releases of the film:
9	* ''The Pitch'': A fallen-from-grace screenwriter (Creator/DennisQuaid) pitches a risky idea to a film producer (Creator/GregKinnear) with the help of his manager (Music/{{Common}})...
10	* ''The Thread'': Three teenagers (Adam Cagley, Devin Eash, Creator/MarkLYoung) search the internet for a banned movie [[TitleDrop called]] ''Movie 43'', and come across quite a bit of {{Filth}} in the process...
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12	...and the sketches are:
13	# ''The Catch'': A gorgeous couple (Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet) are dating, until the man shows a weird behavior...
14	# ''Homeschooled'': A teenage boy (Creator/JeremyAllenWhite) is homeschooled by his parents (Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts), who replicate the full school experience up to the point of bullying him...
15	# ''The Proposition'': A young woman (Anna Faris) asks her boyfriend (Creator/ChrisPratt) to perform a disgusting sexual fetish on her, and his friends (Creator/JBSmoove, Creator/JarradPaul) talk him into obliging her...
16	# ''Veronica'': A girl (Emma Stone) and her ex-boyfriend (Creator/KieranCulkin) discuss their sexual relationship in detail, and--unbeknownst to them--in public...
17	# ''iBabe'': A Creator/SteveJobs {{expy}} (Richard Gere) is evaluating the troubles his kinky new IProduct is having with his development team (Kate Bosworth, Creator/JackMcBrayer, Creator/AasifMandvi)...
18	# ''Super Hero Speed Dating'': Some superheroes and supervillains (Justin Long, Jason Sudeikis, Uma Thurman, Creator/BobbyCannavale, Kristen Bell, Creator/JohnHodgman, Leslie Bibb, Will Carlough) troll each other in flash dates...
19	# ''Machine Kids'': A PublicServiceAnnouncement promotes better treatment of the kids that live in the machines we abuse when they don't function properly...
20	# ''Middleschool Date'': Two young boys (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jimmy Bennett) and their young girl friend (Chloë Grace Moretz) panic over her first menstrual period, and then their fathers (Creator/PatrickWarburton, Matt Walsh) get involved...
21	# ''Happy Birthday'': Some dude (Johnny Knoxville) catches a leprechaun (Gerard Butler) as a gift for his best friend's (Seann William Scott) birthday...
22	# ''Truth or Dare'': The most outrageous truth or dare game ever between two grown-ups (Halle Berry, Creator/StephenMerchant) is about to begin as they're out on their first date...
23	# ''Victory's Glory'': In [[TheFifties 1959]], a basketball coach (Terrence Howard) motivates his all-black high school team to blast an all-white team...
24	# ''Beezel'': A woman (Elizabeth Banks) discovers that her boyfriend's (Josh Duhamel) cat is not what it seems...
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26	Another sketch was cut from the film but is included as an extra on the DVD and Blu-ray release:
27	* ''Find Our Daughter'': A mother (Creator/JulianneMoore) and a father (Creator/TonyShalhoub) hire a private eye (Bob Odenkirk) to find their missing daughter, despite her only reference footage being unorthodox...
28	An additional cut sketch was screened at the LA Comedy Festival in 2014 and subequently posted on Platform/{{Vimeo}}:
29	* ''The Apprentice'': An necrophiliac apprentice mortician (Creator/AntonYelchin) somehow revives the female body he's having sex with, just as his supervisor (Shane Jacobson) walks in...
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32	!!This film provides examples of:
33	* AfterTheEnd: In the international release, [[spoiler:uncovering Movie 43 causes the detonation of various Cold War-era nuclear weapons, turning the world into a wasteland]].
34	* TheBadGuyWins: "Beezel" ends like this; Beezel tries to murder Amy [[MurderTheHypotenuse for coming between him and Anson]], but she turns the tables and begins beating Beezel to death. [[FailedASpotCheck In front of a child's birthday party]]. Anson walks in on the sight, and after Amy unsuccessfully attempts to convince them all that Beezel tried to kill her, the children swarm Amy and [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior stab her to death with plastic forks]] as Anson comforts Beezel, [[BestialityIsDepraved who fantasizes about making out with his owner]].
35	* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Pretty much the whole selling point of Terrence Howard's inspirational speech to his basketball team.
36	* BrickJoke: In the international version, the framing device is originally supposed to be a distraction while one of the older brothers revenge-pranks the youngest by taking their laptop and infecting it with viruses from porn sites. In the end, those viruses [[spoiler:thwart their last-minute attempt to stop the apocalypse their search for Movie 43 caused.]]
37	* CringeComedy: A heavy dose of it.
38	* HomeschooledKids: One skit involves a teenager being homeschooled by his parents, who want to give him an authentic high school experience. This involves being bullied by his own family, being ostracized in parties and his own dad calling people to look at the boy's "weird pubes".
39	* IncestIsRelative: In ''The Thread'', [[spoiler:Baxter is shown to be in a relationship with his mother in the apocalyptic future, and makes out with her in the video message]].
40	* InstantTurnOff: One of the characters has been watching porn on his little brother's laptop for the sake of revenge. Along the way he comes across this porn star who he feels a deep connection with, towards the end of the film his Mom comes in wearing the same outfit as the porn star was earlier. He realizes that he has most likely been jacking off to his Mom, goes into shock and tries to [[GroinAttack rip off his own penis]], months later he has lost his ability to walk and is only capable of endlessly repeating the words ''[[MadnessMantra "I'm sorry"]]''.
41	* IsThisThingOn: The premise of "Veronica", as they're having that discussion while standing in front of the grocery store intercom.
42	* JealousPet: The entire premise of "Beezel".
43	* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Discussed by the director after pitching "The Catch", stating that it's meant to be an exaggeration of the trope.
44	* NoEnding:
45	** "The Pitch", which is the closest thing this film has to an actual plot, ends with [[spoiler:the whole thing turning out to just be a movie being made when a SpecialEffectsFailure occurs. The story itself gets no actual conclusion.]]
46	** "The Thread" from the international release also doesn't have a noteworthy conclusion; instead, [[spoiler:the world ends, one of the surviving older brothers finds the youngest's laptop and can't reset the world so instead watches the second-last skit, and then the credits roll (with "Beezel" interrupting them midway)]].
47	* OnlySaneMan: Kate Bosworth in the iBabe skit.
48	-->'''Robert''': None of this could have seen this one coming.
49	-->'''Arlene''': I did!
50	-->'''Boss''': Take it easy, Erin Brockovich.
51	* PlayingCyrano: Batman's attempt to help Robin speed-dating. Robin namechecks ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''. Batman doesn't recognise it, instead referring to ''Film/{{Roxanne}}''.
52	* PrecisionFStrike: Courtesy of Kate Winslet in the trailer; [[NeverTrustATrailer it doesn't actually appear in the film.]]
53	-->"This is fucked up!"
54	* QuoteMine: Somehow averted; the [=DVD=]/Blu-Ray cover doesn't have any positive blurbs from any critics, nor does it have anything taken out of context to even ''look'' positive.
55	* RefugeInAudacity: Each story just raises up how offensive it is from a coach telling his black basketball team they will win the game against a white team because they are black to two boys not knowing how to handle their female friend's period.
56	* RogerRabbitEffect: ''Beezel'', the last skit, is shot in live action, while Beezel, the titular cat, is animated.
57	* SchmuckBait: Invoked by Richard Roeper [[http://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130123/REVIEWS/130129973/-1/RSS in his review]]:
58	-->As the ads for "Movie 43" promised (threatened?), you can't un-see this thing, so please: Stay away.
59	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''The Groove Tube'' and ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie''.
60	* ThreateningShark: The fake Tampax commercial.
61	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Most (if not all) of the movie's best jokes were given away by the trailers.
62	* VulgarHumor:
63	** ''Every single'' skit in the film is extremely vulgar and offensive in some way or another. Among all of them, arguably every trait of R-rated raunchiness is in here somewhere and used to its full potential.
64	** The one exception is the spoof PublicServiceAnnouncement ''Machine Kids'' which employs a heavy dose of surreal BlackComedy but no gross-out or sexual humour.
65	* YouCantFightFate: In "The Thread", [[spoiler:the titular Movie 43 is actually a message from AfterTheEnd by the youngest brother, about how their searching for Movie 43 is about to trigger the end of the world. Which ends, because the older brothers' main motivation for finding Movie 43 in the first place was to distract the youngest while they ruin his laptop, the only thing that could've possibly prevented the apocalypse.]]

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