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->''"He’s a rebellious trust-funder who specializes in strip clubs, one-night stands and gambling debts. She’s a possibly schizophrenic mental patient raised in near-captivity by an abusive mother. How could these two kids not fall in love?"''
-->--from '''Sara Stewart''''s [[http://nypost.com/2014/02/20/barefoot-is-an-unbearable-romantic-comedy/ review]] at the ''New York Post''

''Barefoot'' is a 2014 RomanticComedy about a mismatched couple who bring out the best in each other.

Jay Wheeler (Creator/ScottSpeedman), the estranged, ne'er-do-well son of a wealthy UsefulNotes/NewOrleans family, has fallen on hard times due to his own {{jerkass}}ery. By day, he does probation by working as a janitor at a UsefulNotes/LosAngeles psychiatric hospital, where his idea of helping the patients (providing them with liquor and pornography) is frowned upon by his boss, Dr. Bertleman (Creator/JKSimmons). By night, he hangs out at a strip club and tries to avoid a LoanShark to whom he owes $40,000. However, Jay's life starts to improve when a mysterious, shoeless young woman named Daisy Kensington (Creator/EvanRachelWood) is checked in to the hospital. A childlike waif who's lived a life of isolation, Daisy's gentle nature begins to bring out Jay's better qualities.

When Jay learns that his younger brother is getting married back home, he realizes that this is a perfect chance to reconnect with his kin -- and maybe trick his father (Creator/TreatWilliams) into paying off his debts. He tells his family that he's better off than he actually is, complete with a girlfriend, but can't talk any of the strippers he knows into going along with the scam. Eventually, Jay realizes that his only option is to sneak Daisy out of the hospital so she can pose as his significant other. While Daisy charms the Wheelers at first, she can't hold back her eccentricities for long, and Jay is finally forced to admit the truth. Desperate, Jay and Daisy flee back to LA; along the way, they have to deal with the police pursuing them -- and their growing attraction to each other. With Jay teaching Daisy about the world (and beginning to realize that she doesn't belong in an institution), and Daisy continuing to smooth his rough edges, they fall in love -- but will they be able to stay together?

!!"I've never had a trope in my life!":
* AbusiveParents: Daisy's mother was a schizophrenic who never let her out of the house. As a result, she has NoSocialSkills, and everything she knows about the outside world comes from what she's seen on TV.
* AttemptedRape: At the mental hospital, Jay rescues Daisy from an attack by another janitor. It's the audience's first indication that he has some good in him after all.
* BarefootLoon: Daisy is a CloudCuckoolander (really understandable given her background), and one of her quirks is an aversion to shoes.
* TheBigEasy: The scenes set in New Orleans were actually filmed there.
* CloudCuckoolander: Considering her childhood, there's no other way Daisy could have turned out.
* CloudCuckoolandersMinder: Jay is forced to assume this role whenever Daisy draws attention to herself.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: Jay gives Daisy some money, then leaves her at a bus station in Shreveport. However, he soon feels guilty and returns for her.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Mr. Phelpmitter, one of the mental patients Jay works with. He believes that BigBrotherIsWatchingYou, and thinks he's been institutionalized only because he insists on living "OffTheGrid".
* ConstantlyCurious: Daisy, who doesn't understand the outside world because she's seen so little of it.
* CringeComedy: Daisy's lack of social skills sometimes leads to this.
* DisappearedDad: Daisy's father is never even mentioned.
* DrivenToSuicide: PlayedWith. When Daisy is put back in the mental home and Jay is forbidden to see her, he lays on some train tracks (complete with a CrucifiedHeroShot) in a desperate attempt to be institutionalized with her. [[spoiler:It doesn't work, because Dr. Bertleman is convinced that Jay is a bad influence on Daisy and says that he'll keep them apart.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After all they go through, Jay and Daisy manage to create a happy life for themselves.]]
* ForeignRemake: It's based on ''Barfuss'', a 2005 German film.
* FreakOut: Daisy does this when she realizes that Jay wants to take her back to the mental hospital. [[spoiler:The incident helps change Jay's mind.]]
* TheGhost: Daisy's mother is already dead before the story begins, and her image is never shown.
* GoodTimesMontage: While they're traveling cross country, Jay and Daisy stop to have fun at a rural county fair. [[spoiler:In the film's last scene, they're riding a merry-go-round just as they did at the fair as a MeaningfulEcho.]]
* InnocentInaccurate: Daisy, big time. During the strip club scene, she mentions that a man wanted to pay her for a hand job, then says "I've never had a job in my life!"
* ItsAllMyFault: Daisy says that she killed her mother. [[spoiler:Actually, she was present when her mother died, but had nothing to do with it.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: At first, Jay seems like a selfish, cynical {{Jerkass}}, but Daisy brings out the good in him.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Jay's mother (Creator/KateBurton) persuades his father to [[spoiler:pay off the loan shark]] by reminding him that he was equally reckless in his youth.
* LoanShark: He threatens to "smash [Jay's] head open" if he doesn't cough up the $40,000, thus setting off the plot.
* MadwomanInTheAttic: How Daisy started out.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Both [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] (Daisy is even more damaged than Jay) and [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] (she still makes his life better, and he returns the favor).
* MockMillionaire: Jay's scheme to trick his father into paying his debts hinges on convincing his family that he's doing fine, and he only needs the money to invest in a new company.
* MysteriousWaif: How Daisy is introduced to Jay (and the audience).
* OneWordTitle
* TheOphelia: Daisy is probably one of the straightest examples in '''any''' modern piece of media. She's a blonde {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who PrefersGoingBarefoot and spent most of her life imprisoned by her AbusiveMom.
* PoorCommunicationKills: One reason Daisy is institutionalized is because she's allegedly HearingVoices. She finally sets Jay straight: [[spoiler:it was her schizophrenic mother who heard the voices, not her.]]
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: In this case, it's an old (but well-cared for) RV that Jay's father owns. When they're sneaking out of New Orleans, Jay and Daisy steal it because it's the only vehicle in the garage with keys. [[spoiler:And sure enough, Daisy eventually wrecks it.]]
* PrefersGoingBarefoot: One of Daisy's defining traits (she insists that shoes "hurt [her] feet"), and the source of the film's title.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Dr. Bertleman emerges as one, despite his (understandable) exasperation with Jay for most of the film. [[spoiler:He even apologizes when he realizes that Jay was right about both Daisy and the janitor who tried to rape her.]] The clerk at the bus station, who tries to help Daisy when Jay temporarily abandons her, is another example.
* RoadTripPlot: Jay and Daisy drive from New Orleans to Los Angeles.
* ScaryBlackMan: The bouncer at the strip club.
* SceneryPorn: Plenty of it as Jay and Daisy drive through rural Louisiana and UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}.
* SheCleansUpNicely: Daisy looks positively glamorous when Jay's mother lets her borrow an old dress and styles her hair.
* SmarterThanYouLook: As unworldly as she is, Daisy manages to outwit a Louisiana state trooper. She successfully hides Jay while the trooper looks for him inside the RV, tricks him into searching the woods instead, and then drives off, throwing the trooper's car keys away so he won't be able to follow.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Many of Daisy's outfits -- because Jay borrowed them from his stripper friends.
* TookALevelInKindness: The essence of Jay's CharacterDevelopment.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Jay is one for most of the movie. [[spoiler:The ending implies that he does finally earn his father's respect.]]
* WomanChild: Due to her strange upbringing, Daisy has never really grown up. Jay has to teach her how to drive, how to flush an airplane toilet, etc.
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