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* GenerationXerox: Wade becomes a young clone of his hated father Glen as the story progresses.
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* GenerationXerox: Wade becomes a young younger clone of his hated father Glen in his behavior and personality as the story progresses.
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*GenerationXerox: Wade becomes a young clone of his hated father Glen as the story progresses.
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Lawford is a tiny town in New Hampshire's Great North Woods. It's so small it has just one part-time police officer, Wade Whitehouse (Creator/NickNolte). While Wade is well-liked, everyone knows he's hit a rough patch in his life. He lives alone in a trailer home, drinks on the job, and is going through a bitter divorce and custody battle for his young daughter with his wife Lillian (Mary Beth Hurt). Wade is also haunted by memories of his childhood, when he suffered horrible physical and verbal abuse from his father Glen (Creator/JamesCoburn). He is still close to his brother Rolfe (Creator/WillemDafoe), a history professor at Boston University who also narrates the story. Wade plans to marry his girlfriend Margie (Creator/SissySpacek) once his divorce goes final.
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Lawford is a tiny town in New Hampshire's Great North Woods. It's so small it has just one part-time police officer, Wade Whitehouse (Creator/NickNolte). While Wade is well-liked, everyone knows he's hit a rough patch in his life. He lives alone in a trailer home, drinks on the job, and is going through a bitter divorce and custody battle for his young daughter with his wife Lillian (Mary Beth Hurt).(Creator/MaryBethHurt). Wade is also haunted by memories of his childhood, when he suffered horrible physical and verbal abuse from his father Glen (Creator/JamesCoburn). He is still close to his brother Rolfe (Creator/WillemDafoe), a history professor at Boston University who also narrates the story. Wade plans to marry his girlfriend Margie (Creator/SissySpacek) once his divorce goes final.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Wade sees himself as this, for trying to be nice with his vindictive ex-wife after the divorce and for doing menial jobs for Gordon Larivier.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Wade sees himself as this, for trying to be nice with his vindictive ex-wife after the divorce and for doing menial jobs for Gordon Larivier.[=LaRivier=].
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* StealthInsult: Wade's ex-wife Lilian does this when she offers her condolences to Wade over his mother's death. She uses it as an opportunity to implicitly draw a parallel between herself and Wade's mother, and by implication between Wade and his hated father Glen.
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* DirtyOldMan: Glen's interactions with Margie show him to be one.
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* DirtyOldMan: Glen's interactions with Margie show him to be one.one, as does his sweatshirt with pictures of fornicating trolls.
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* AccidentalMurder: In the climax [[spoiler: Wade hits Glen with a gun, then pulls the trigger, but the gun's empty. But the blow ends up killing Glen anyway]].
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* AccidentalMurder: In the climax [[spoiler: Wade hits Glen across the head with the stock of a gun, rifle, then jokingly points the gun at Glen and pulls the trigger, but knowing that the gun's chamber was empty. But the blow ends up killing Glen anyway]].
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* HateSink: Other than a brief moment of grief at inadvertently causing his wife's death, absolutely nothing Glen Whitehouse says or does makes him remotely sympathetic.
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* FreudianExcuse: It's little wonder that Wade is such an emotional wreck and a ticking time bomb after years of verbal and physical abuse by his alcoholic father.
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* TheAllegedCar: After losing his job, Wade can't afford to have his transmission repaired, so he drives around in his father's old, rusted truck.
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* TheAllegedCar: After losing his job, Wade can't afford to have his transmission repaired, so he drives around in his father's old, rusted rustbucket truck.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rolfe encourages Wade's suspicions that Twombley was murdered, and spins a theory where Jack was hired by [=LaRivier=] and Mel GOrdon to eliminate Twombley to facilitate a land deal. Rolfe had no idea that having this conspiracy theory in his head would ultimately help send Wade off the deep end.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rolfe encourages Wade's suspicions that Twombley was murdered, and spins a theory where Jack was hired by [=LaRivier=] and Mel GOrdon Gordon to eliminate Twombley to facilitate a land deal. Rolfe had no idea that having this conspiracy theory in his head would ultimately help send Wade off the deep end.
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* ICouldaBeenAContender: According to Margie, Jack Hewitt is still bitter over the fact that his promising career as a professional baseball player was cut short by an injury.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Rolfe encourages Wade's suspicions that Twombley was murdered, and spins a theory where Jack was hired by [=LaRivier=] and Mel GOrdon to eliminate Twombley to facilitate a land deal. Rolfe had no idea that having this conspiracy theory in his head would ultimately help send Wade off the deep end.
