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1	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sour_grapes_poster.jpg]]
2	->''" ''Sour Grapes'' is a movie that deserves its title: It's puckered, deflated and vinegary. It's a dead zone."''
3	-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert'''
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5	''Sour Grapes'' is a 1998 comedy film written and directed by ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' co-creator Creator/LarryDavid, starring Creator/StevenWeber and Creators/CraigBierko as cousins Evan and Richie Maxwell.
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7	While gambling in Atlantic City, Richie borrows two quarters from Evan, and scores a jackpot of over $400,000. At first, Evan is happy for his cousin, but soon begins to insist that Richie owes him at least half of the money. The majority of the movie revolves around them arguing over whether Richie owes Evan anything.
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9	As evidenced by the quote above, this was one of Roger Ebert's most-hated films.
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11	!!This film provides examples of:
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13	* AmbiguouslyJewish: Richie's mother has some of the hallmarks of this trope.
14	* BlackComedy: Not the darkest example, but the film revolves around subjects like cancer, castration, and an elderly woman with a heart condition being scared half to death.
15	* CreatorCameo: Writer/director Larry David appears in three small roles.
16	* JustJokingJustification: Evan, fed up with his cousin's refusal to split the money, tells Richie that he has terminal cancer, and plans to tell him it was a joke shortly after. It backfires thusly: [[spoiler:Richie fears that his mother won't be able to survive without him, so he gives her house key to an African-American bum and tells him to go to the house at night, hoping the surprise will trigger her heart condition and kill her so she doesn't have to watch her son die painfully.]] Great joke, doc.
17	* SeinfeldianConversation: A given, considering who wrote the film. One of Evan's patients repeatedly propositions the receptionist for a date; a TV star about to have a major surgery tells the doctors and nurses stories about his show; Evan and the TV star argue over whether or not Evan said "''hunky''-dory" or "''honky''-dory" while [[spoiler:the actor [[ItMakesSenseInContext has him at gunpoint]]]].

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