Marmalade is a 2024 thriller romance film. It was released in cinemas and on-demand on February 9, 2024. It revolves around the story of a young man named Baron who ends up in prison and tells the story to Otis, his fellow inmate about how he met the love of his life, a girl named Marmalade, and the two plotted a bank robbery to afford his dying mother’s pills and offers him $250,000 to help him break out.
Tropes in Marmalade
- Abusive Parents: Marmalade lived with a foster father who kept her locked in a dog cage and poked her with his white cane along with other children who were put in the same position in a garage. This is revealed to be Frankels, the CEO of Baron’s Pharmaceutical and it was really Baron who was likely abused.
- Ambiguous Ending: After cutting his hair at the cabin, giving Otis a trip to Jamaica to visit his mother, and delivering his mother’s pills, we are still not sure what will become of Baron and he is still wanted for his robberies.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Marmalade is a rebellious girl who is friendly and seems willing to take risks to help people such as Baron, but then she purposely takes away his mother's pills on purpose so she would die. This turns out to be Subverted, since none of this happened and Baron kept a desperate boy identity when explaining this made-up story to Otis.
- Child Hater: Frankels was the abusive father parent when they discover a jar of marmalade in his garage, a few dog cages, and he consciously walked with a white cane when he is introduced.
- Disney Death: Played With. Baron's mother supposedly dies when Marmalade purposely takes her pills away and hides them in her car. However, his mother is alive and this was all part of his false story to get out of prison.
- Disguised in Drag: Baron robs banks as his alias “Babydoll Bandit” and later escapes the roadblock as a regular woman.
- Jerkass Ball: The postal worker lady refuses to keep Baron employed unless he cuts his hair off and keeps it short.
- How We Got Here: The film begins with Barron being arrested at the safe house cabin, him arriving to prison and telling his story to Otis of how he was led there in that scene.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Once interviewed, everything matches up to Frankels being Baron’s abuser as a child in foster care and he is finally arrested for all that abuse.
- Obfuscating Stupidity:
- Baron made up the story of meeting a girl named Marmalade, him being desperate boy helping her, and his mother in question dying so Otis will help him break out in order to continue his further robberies, and to buy the pills for his mom.
- Otis poses as a curious inmate to spy on Baron and his plan to meet with Marmalade.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Baron buys a plane ticket for Otis so he can visit his mother in Jamaica.
- Villain Protagonist: Marmalde, when it was really Baron who robs the banks.
