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A 2014 {{dramedy}} film directed by Theodore Melfi and starring Creator/BillMurray.
Vincent [=MacKenna=] (Murray) is a jaded, alcoholic [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam vet]] from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]], and his life is falling apart around him -- his wife Sandy is in extremely poor health and he's in dire financial straits. When Maggie (Creator/MelissaMcCarthy), a woman in the midst of a divorce, moves in next door with her young son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), Vincent reluctantly begins to develop a friendship with the boy.
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!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce: Vincent lives in Brooklyn, and most of the film takes place in New York.
* BoxingLesson: A not-so-lighthearted/exaggerated version of this trope comes into play when Vincent, a veteran who served in Vietnam, teaches Oliver how to fight.
* TheBully: As a new transfer student, Oliver is easy pickings for these. Turns into DefeatEqualsFriendship once Vincent teaches him a thing or two about fighting.
* CallBack: While Vincent is at the hospital [[spoiler:waiting for his daughter to be born]], Oliver shows him a vending machine trick he learned from Daka earlier in the film.
* CombatPragmatism: Vincent knows very well that Oliver has no chance in a straight fight, and teaches him to break his opponent's nose as an opening move. [[spoiler: It works.]]
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: When Oliver finally gets fed up with his bully and beats him up, they bond in detention and end up becoming best friends.
* DirtyOldMan: Vincent is married and clearly still in love with his wife, but she's in a nursing home with advanced dementia, so he maintains a relationship with a prostitute on the side.
* DodgeBallIsHell: When Oliver's bully goes after him in a game of dodgeball, he snaps.
* EpicFail: In an attempt to settle his debt with a LoanShark, [[spoiler:Vincent steals a bunch of drugs from a medical care facility. However, he grabbed a bunch of drugs out of the drawer indiscriminately, and the drug dealer he wishes to sell them to informs him that much of his haul is for conditions such as epilepsy and are not useful in getting high]].
* TheGambler: Vincent is a regular at the racetrack. However, he usually picks losers, which doesn't help him when [[spoiler:he gets in deep with loan sharks]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down]].
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change, so she seems to at least care about his health. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Towards the end of the film, Oliver shows Vincent how to get two snacks out of a vending machine when you only pay for one. Vincent tells him that it's technically stealing, but Vin is hardly one to talk given his previous antics in the film, including a scene where he steals medicine to sell to a drug dealer [[spoiler:to get money to keep his wife in medical care]].
* TheIllegal:
** The inept moving crew in the beginning of the film may or may not be this; Vincent's accusations imply he believes they might be.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the case of the supervisor Oliver's dad hires. Vincent threatens to call Immigration on her, but she informs him that she is a citizen.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vincent is a cantankerous old bastard who generally lives alone, pushing away everyone but his cat and his prostitute. We learn, though, that he's still impressively devoted to his wife, who can no longer even recognize him, and generally treats everyone in his life better than he treats himself. Once Oliver gets to know him, they become fast friends.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Oliver's father apparently cheated on Maggie repeatedly, and she's very upset when he gets joint custody. The fact is, though, he's still Oliver's father, and by all indications, cares about his son. He also makes the very good point that Maggie has a very demanding job, which makes impossible for her to be with Oliver full-time, and which resulted in her leaving him with a man she barely knew. Oliver admits, at one point, that he missed spending time with his father, but didn't want to hurt his mother by telling her.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sandy dies while Vincent is in the hospital after his stroke. She's cremated because the facility was unable to contact him in case he wanted any other action to be taken.]]
* LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he calls around with a gun and some muscle and tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Vincent and Daka show signs of this. Vincent was old enough to have served in Vietnam; Daka is young enough to have [[spoiler:the ability to conceive his child]].
* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood. He is summarily made into a target for TheBully.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing Oliver’s mother half-custody when Oliver’s father takes her to court.
* OddFriendship: A cantankerous, disheveled, alcoholic veteran, and a shy, scared kid in the midst of trying to deal with his parent's divorce.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
* ParentProducedProject: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], or nearly so: The big project in Oliver's class is about modern "saints", and in his speech before the presentation he jokes that most of the students probably selected a parent.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* RetiredBadass: Double subverted. Vincent mentions having been in Vietnam, but dismisses it as maybe having imagined it. Oliver later finds evidence that Vincent did fight in Vietnam and earned a Bronze Star for bravery.
* SingleMomStripper: Daka, the pregnant Russian exotic dancer, who moonlights as Vincent's on-call prostitute. Whether it's his kid or not is left ambiguous.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by, anyway. He even has a cigarette (albeit an unlit one) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Maggie's husband was a philanderer, and it broke apart their marriage.
** Vincent sleeps with a prostitute despite his wife still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy [[spoiler:but she has long since forgotten who he is.]]
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A 2014 {{dramedy}} film directed by Theodore Melfi and starring Creator/BillMurray.
Vincent [=MacKenna=] (Murray) is a jaded, alcoholic [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam vet]] from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]], and his life is falling apart around him -- his wife Sandy is in extremely poor health and he's in dire financial straits. When Maggie (Creator/MelissaMcCarthy), a woman in the midst of a divorce, moves in next door with her young son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), Vincent reluctantly begins to develop a friendship with the boy.
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!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce: Vincent lives in Brooklyn, and most of the film takes place in New York.
* BoxingLesson: A not-so-lighthearted/exaggerated version of this trope comes into play when Vincent, a veteran who served in Vietnam, teaches Oliver how to fight.
* TheBully: As a new transfer student, Oliver is easy pickings for these. Turns into DefeatEqualsFriendship once Vincent teaches him a thing or two about fighting.
* CallBack: While Vincent is at the hospital [[spoiler:waiting for his daughter to be born]], Oliver shows him a vending machine trick he learned from Daka earlier in the film.
* CombatPragmatism: Vincent knows very well that Oliver has no chance in a straight fight, and teaches him to break his opponent's nose as an opening move. [[spoiler: It works.]]
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: When Oliver finally gets fed up with his bully and beats him up, they bond in detention and end up becoming best friends.
* DirtyOldMan: Vincent is married and clearly still in love with his wife, but she's in a nursing home with advanced dementia, so he maintains a relationship with a prostitute on the side.
* DodgeBallIsHell: When Oliver's bully goes after him in a game of dodgeball, he snaps.
* EpicFail: In an attempt to settle his debt with a LoanShark, [[spoiler:Vincent steals a bunch of drugs from a medical care facility. However, he grabbed a bunch of drugs out of the drawer indiscriminately, and the drug dealer he wishes to sell them to informs him that much of his haul is for conditions such as epilepsy and are not useful in getting high]].
* TheGambler: Vincent is a regular at the racetrack. However, he usually picks losers, which doesn't help him when [[spoiler:he gets in deep with loan sharks]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down]].
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change, so she seems to at least care about his health. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Towards the end of the film, Oliver shows Vincent how to get two snacks out of a vending machine when you only pay for one. Vincent tells him that it's technically stealing, but Vin is hardly one to talk given his previous antics in the film, including a scene where he steals medicine to sell to a drug dealer [[spoiler:to get money to keep his wife in medical care]].
* TheIllegal:
** The inept moving crew in the beginning of the film may or may not be this; Vincent's accusations imply he believes they might be.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the case of the supervisor Oliver's dad hires. Vincent threatens to call Immigration on her, but she informs him that she is a citizen.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vincent is a cantankerous old bastard who generally lives alone, pushing away everyone but his cat and his prostitute. We learn, though, that he's still impressively devoted to his wife, who can no longer even recognize him, and generally treats everyone in his life better than he treats himself. Once Oliver gets to know him, they become fast friends.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Oliver's father apparently cheated on Maggie repeatedly, and she's very upset when he gets joint custody. The fact is, though, he's still Oliver's father, and by all indications, cares about his son. He also makes the very good point that Maggie has a very demanding job, which makes impossible for her to be with Oliver full-time, and which resulted in her leaving him with a man she barely knew. Oliver admits, at one point, that he missed spending time with his father, but didn't want to hurt his mother by telling her.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sandy dies while Vincent is in the hospital after his stroke. She's cremated because the facility was unable to contact him in case he wanted any other action to be taken.]]
* LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he calls around with a gun and some muscle and tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Vincent and Daka show signs of this. Vincent was old enough to have served in Vietnam; Daka is young enough to have [[spoiler:the ability to conceive his child]].
* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood. He is summarily made into a target for TheBully.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing Oliver’s mother half-custody when Oliver’s father takes her to court.
* OddFriendship: A cantankerous, disheveled, alcoholic veteran, and a shy, scared kid in the midst of trying to deal with his parent's divorce.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
* ParentProducedProject: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], or nearly so: The big project in Oliver's class is about modern "saints", and in his speech before the presentation he jokes that most of the students probably selected a parent.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* RetiredBadass: Double subverted. Vincent mentions having been in Vietnam, but dismisses it as maybe having imagined it. Oliver later finds evidence that Vincent did fight in Vietnam and earned a Bronze Star for bravery.
* SingleMomStripper: Daka, the pregnant Russian exotic dancer, who moonlights as Vincent's on-call prostitute. Whether it's his kid or not is left ambiguous.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by, anyway. He even has a cigarette (albeit an unlit one) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Maggie's husband was a philanderer, and it broke apart their marriage.
** Vincent sleeps with a prostitute despite his wife still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy [[spoiler:but she has long since forgotten who he is.]]
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A 2014 {{dramedy}} film directed by Theodore Melfi and starring Creator/BillMurray.
Vincent [=MacKenna=] (Murray) is a jaded, alcoholic [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam vet]] from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]], and his life is falling apart around him -- his wife Sandy is in extremely poor health and he's in dire financial straits. When Maggie (Creator/MelissaMcCarthy), a woman in the midst of a divorce, moves in next door with her young son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), Vincent reluctantly begins to develop a friendship with the boy.
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!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce: Vincent lives in Brooklyn, and most of the film takes place in New York.
* BoxingLesson: A not-so-lighthearted/exaggerated version of this trope comes into play when Vincent, a veteran who served in Vietnam, teaches Oliver how to fight.
* TheBully: As a new transfer student, Oliver is easy pickings for these. Turns into DefeatEqualsFriendship once Vincent teaches him a thing or two about fighting.
* CallBack: While Vincent is at the hospital [[spoiler:waiting for his daughter to be born]], Oliver shows him a vending machine trick he learned from Daka earlier in the film.
* CombatPragmatism: Vincent knows very well that Oliver has no chance in a straight fight, and teaches him to break his opponent's nose as an opening move. [[spoiler: It works.]]
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: When Oliver finally gets fed up with his bully and beats him up, they bond in detention and end up becoming best friends.
* DirtyOldMan: Vincent is married and clearly still in love with his wife, but she's in a nursing home with advanced dementia, so he maintains a relationship with a prostitute on the side.
* DodgeBallIsHell: When Oliver's bully goes after him in a game of dodgeball, he snaps.
* EpicFail: In an attempt to settle his debt with a LoanShark, [[spoiler:Vincent steals a bunch of drugs from a medical care facility. However, he grabbed a bunch of drugs out of the drawer indiscriminately, and the drug dealer he wishes to sell them to informs him that much of his haul is for conditions such as epilepsy and are not useful in getting high]].
* TheGambler: Vincent is a regular at the racetrack. However, he usually picks losers, which doesn't help him when [[spoiler:he gets in deep with loan sharks]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down]].
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change, so she seems to at least care about his health. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Towards the end of the film, Oliver shows Vincent how to get two snacks out of a vending machine when you only pay for one. Vincent tells him that it's technically stealing, but Vin is hardly one to talk given his previous antics in the film, including a scene where he steals medicine to sell to a drug dealer [[spoiler:to get money to keep his wife in medical care]].
* TheIllegal:
** The inept moving crew in the beginning of the film may or may not be this; Vincent's accusations imply he believes they might be.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the case of the supervisor Oliver's dad hires. Vincent threatens to call Immigration on her, but she informs him that she is a citizen.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vincent is a cantankerous old bastard who generally lives alone, pushing away everyone but his cat and his prostitute. We learn, though, that he's still impressively devoted to his wife, who can no longer even recognize him, and generally treats everyone in his life better than he treats himself. Once Oliver gets to know him, they become fast friends.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Oliver's father apparently cheated on Maggie repeatedly, and she's very upset when he gets joint custody. The fact is, though, he's still Oliver's father, and by all indications, cares about his son. He also makes the very good point that Maggie has a very demanding job, which makes impossible for her to be with Oliver full-time, and which resulted in her leaving him with a man she barely knew. Oliver admits, at one point, that he missed spending time with his father, but didn't want to hurt his mother by telling her.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sandy dies while Vincent is in the hospital after his stroke. She's cremated because the facility was unable to contact him in case he wanted any other action to be taken.]]
* LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he calls around with a gun and some muscle and tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Vincent and Daka show signs of this. Vincent was old enough to have served in Vietnam; Daka is young enough to have [[spoiler:the ability to conceive his child]].
* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood. He is summarily made into a target for TheBully.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing Oliver’s mother half-custody when Oliver’s father takes her to court.
* OddFriendship: A cantankerous, disheveled, alcoholic veteran, and a shy, scared kid in the midst of trying to deal with his parent's divorce.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
* ParentProducedProject: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], or nearly so: The big project in Oliver's class is about modern "saints", and in his speech before the presentation he jokes that most of the students probably selected a parent.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* RetiredBadass: Double subverted. Vincent mentions having been in Vietnam, but dismisses it as maybe having imagined it. Oliver later finds evidence that Vincent did fight in Vietnam and earned a Bronze Star for bravery.
* SingleMomStripper: Daka, the pregnant Russian exotic dancer, who moonlights as Vincent's on-call prostitute. Whether it's his kid or not is left ambiguous.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by, anyway. He even has a cigarette (albeit an unlit one) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Maggie's husband was a philanderer, and it broke apart their marriage.
** Vincent sleeps with a prostitute despite his wife still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy [[spoiler:but she has long since forgotten who he is.]]
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Vincent [=MacKenna=] (Murray) is a jaded, alcoholic [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam vet]] from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]], and his life is falling apart around him -- his wife Sandy is in extremely poor health and he's in dire financial straits. When Maggie (Creator/MelissaMcCarthy), a woman in the midst of a divorce, moves in next door with her young son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), Vincent reluctantly begins to develop a friendship with the boy.
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Vincent (Murray) is a jaded, alcoholic [UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam vet]] from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]], and his life is falling apart around him -- his wife Sandy is in extremely poor health and he's in dire financial straits. When Maggie (Creator/MelissaMcCarthy), a woman in the midst of a divorce, moves in next door with her young son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), Vincent reluctantly begins to develop a friendship with the boy.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Vincent is a cantankerous old guy who generally lives alone, pushing away everyone but his cat, but he visits his wife in the nursing home and teaches Oliver to stand up for himself.
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* RetiredBadass: Double subverted. Vincent mentions having been in Vietnam, but dismisses it as maybe having imagined it. Oliver later finds evidence that Vincent did fight in Vietnam and earned a Bronze Star for bravery.
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* TheBully: As a new transfer student, Oliver is easy pickings for these. Turns into DefeatEqualsFriendship once Vincent teaches him a thing or two about fighting.
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* DirtyOldMan: Despite having a wife and indications being that he still does care for her, Vincent keeps a prostitute on call. [[spoiler:She ends up having his baby.]]
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* TheGambler: Vincent usually picks losers.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
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%% * TheGambler: Vincent usually picks losers.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaksdown.]]
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* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks
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* LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
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%% * LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
%% * NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing Oliver’s mother half-custody when Oliver’s father takes her to court.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing Oliver’s mother half-custody when Oliver’s father takes her to court.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
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* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing his mother half-custody when his father takes his mother to court.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by. He even has a cigarette (though unlit) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing his mother half-custody when his father takes his mother to court.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by. He even has a cigarette (though unlit) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
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* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing his mother half-custody when his father takes his mother to court.
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** Vincent keeps a prostitute around despite his wife still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy.
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** Vincent keeps a prostitute around despite his wife – Sandy still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy.Sandy.
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Former [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam vet]] Vincent (Creator/BillMurray) is a jaded old man from [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity Brooklyn]] and his life is falling apart around him—his wife Sandy is in extremely poor health and he's in dire financial straits. When a single mother named Maggie (Creator/MelissaMcCarthy) moves in next door with her young son Oliver in tow, Vincent becomes the father Oliver never had.
!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce: Vincent lives in Brooklyn, and most of the film takes place in New York.
* BoxingLesson: A not-so-lighthearted/exaggerated version of this trope comes into play when Vincent, a veteran who served in Vietnam, teaches Oliver how to fight.
* TheBully: As a new transfer student, Oliver is easy pickings for these. Turns into DefeatEqualsFriendship once Vincent teaches him a thing or two about fighting.
* CallBack: While Vincent is at the hospital [[spoiler:waiting for his daughter to be born]], Oliver shows him a vending machine trick he learned from Daka earlier in the film.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Oliver and one of his bullies become best friends after he fights back.
* DirtyOldMan: Despite having a wife and indications being that he still does care for her, Vincent keeps a prostitute on call. [[spoiler:She ends up having his baby.]]
* DodgeBallIsHell: When Oliver's bully goes after him in a game of dodgeball, he snaps.
* EpicFail: In an attempt to settle his debt with a LoanShark, [[spoiler:Vincent steals a bunch of drugs from a medical care facility. However, he grabbed a bunch of drugs out of the drawer indiscriminately, and the drug dealer he wishes to sell them to informs him that much of his haul is for conditions such as epilepsy and are not useful in getting high]].
* TheGambler: Vincent usually picks losers.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Towards the end of the film, Oliver shows Vincent how to get two snacks out of a vending machine when you only pay for one. Vincent tells him that it's technically stealing, but Vin is hardly one to talk given his previous antics in the film, including a scene where he steals medicine to sell to a drug dealer [[spoiler:to get money to keep his wife in medical care]].
* TheIllegal:
** The inept moving crew in the beginning of the film may or may not be this; Vincent's accusations imply he believes they might be.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the case of the supervisor Oliver's dad hires. Vincent threatens to call Immigration on her, but she informs him that she is a citizen.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sandy dies while Vincent is in the hospital after his stroke. She's cremated because the facility was unable to contact him in case he wanted any other action to be taken.]]
* LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Vincent and Daka show signs of this. Vincent was old enough to have served in Vietnam; Daka is young enough to have [[spoiler:the ability to conceive his child]].
* ParentProducedProject: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], or nearly so: The big project in Oliver's class is about modern "saints", and in his speech before the presentation he jokes that most of the students probably selected a parent.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing his mother half-custody when his father takes his mother to court.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by. He even has a cigarette (though unlit) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Maggie's husband was a philanderer, and it broke apart their marriage.
** Vincent keeps a prostitute around despite his wife still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy.
!! This film contains examples of the following tropes:
* BigApplesauce: Vincent lives in Brooklyn, and most of the film takes place in New York.
* BoxingLesson: A not-so-lighthearted/exaggerated version of this trope comes into play when Vincent, a veteran who served in Vietnam, teaches Oliver how to fight.
* TheBully: As a new transfer student, Oliver is easy pickings for these. Turns into DefeatEqualsFriendship once Vincent teaches him a thing or two about fighting.
* CallBack: While Vincent is at the hospital [[spoiler:waiting for his daughter to be born]], Oliver shows him a vending machine trick he learned from Daka earlier in the film.
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Oliver and one of his bullies become best friends after he fights back.
* DirtyOldMan: Despite having a wife and indications being that he still does care for her, Vincent keeps a prostitute on call. [[spoiler:She ends up having his baby.]]
* DodgeBallIsHell: When Oliver's bully goes after him in a game of dodgeball, he snaps.
* EpicFail: In an attempt to settle his debt with a LoanShark, [[spoiler:Vincent steals a bunch of drugs from a medical care facility. However, he grabbed a bunch of drugs out of the drawer indiscriminately, and the drug dealer he wishes to sell them to informs him that much of his haul is for conditions such as epilepsy and are not useful in getting high]].
* TheGambler: Vincent usually picks losers.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:When Vincent gets home from the hospital, his answering machine is filled with messages from the facility where his wife was being cared for. He can figure out the subtext of the messages and breaks down.]]
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Daka cleans up Vincent's place before he returns after his stroke and makes him healthy food for a change. [[spoiler:She also seems like she truly cares for their child.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Towards the end of the film, Oliver shows Vincent how to get two snacks out of a vending machine when you only pay for one. Vincent tells him that it's technically stealing, but Vin is hardly one to talk given his previous antics in the film, including a scene where he steals medicine to sell to a drug dealer [[spoiler:to get money to keep his wife in medical care]].
* TheIllegal:
** The inept moving crew in the beginning of the film may or may not be this; Vincent's accusations imply he believes they might be.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the case of the supervisor Oliver's dad hires. Vincent threatens to call Immigration on her, but she informs him that she is a citizen.
* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Sandy dies while Vincent is in the hospital after his stroke. She's cremated because the facility was unable to contact him in case he wanted any other action to be taken.]]
* LoanShark: Vincent is in deep with one; when he tries to steal Vincent's wife's jewelry to pay off the debt, [[spoiler:Vincent suffers a stroke]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Vincent and Daka show signs of this. Vincent was old enough to have served in Vietnam; Daka is young enough to have [[spoiler:the ability to conceive his child]].
* ParentProducedProject: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]], or nearly so: The big project in Oliver's class is about modern "saints", and in his speech before the presentation he jokes that most of the students probably selected a parent.
* ParentalSubstitute: Vincent becomes a father-figure to Oliver, whose own father isn't exactly a nice guy.
* NewTransferStudent: Oliver becomes one when he moves into Vincent's neighborhood.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Aside from hanging out with a prostitute, Vincent took Oliver to a racetrack and a bar while babysitting him. This ends up costing his mother half-custody when his father takes his mother to court.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Maggie forbids Oliver from hanging around Vincent, he still drops by to speak to him. Vincent tells Oliver to get lost; Oliver responds with a ten-year-old's equivalent of this.
* SmokingIsCool: If Vincent is anything to go by. He even has a cigarette (though unlit) in his mouth as he has a wheelchair race with Oliver in the hospital.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Maggie's husband was a philanderer, and it broke apart their marriage.
** Vincent keeps a prostitute around despite his wife still being alive, and there seem to be some sparks between them. [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Vincent does still care deeply about Sandy.
