History Film / TheAgeOfAdaline

* NoImmortalInertia: [[spoiler:Subverted. After Adaline has her immortality revoked in a repeat of her accident, she physically remains the same. The only indication that she's now aging at a normal rate is a grey hair she finds.]]

* AgeOfTitles: Obviously, although it's also a DoubleMeaningTitle (see below).

-->'''Ellis:''' Because nothing in life makes sense without her!

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Adaline is shown investing in Xerox, her stockbroker warning her that it's likely to be many years before it will pay off. This is not followed up on afterwards.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Giving her cab driver a detailed suggestion of which route to take indicates that Adaline has lived long enough to know lots.

* InformedAbility: Adaline is described as being fluent in six or seven languages. Other than being a native English speaker, the most we get to see is her translating some Italian and speaking in Portugese over the phone.

* TheSixties: Adaline and William's romance happened in that decade, judging by the fashions and hairstyles.

--> '''Ellis:''' Because nothing in life makes sense without her!
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While remotely possible for a child to grow to look identical to a parent, which Adaline uses to explain looking identical to her "mother", an identical beauty mark is not an inherited trait that gets passed down. Rather than cover up or use cgi to remove this distinctive feature of Blake Lively's, it just goes unremarked upon by everyone.

* BlindAndTheBeast: A variation with Adaline and her blind friend, Regan. While Adaline isn't hideous in the slightest, Regan's blindness ensures that she doesn't realize Adaline hasn't aged along with her. It's implied she's one of the few people Adaline has kept in contact with, precisely for this reason.

* CoolOldLady: Adaline's daughter Flemming has grown old gracefully and still appears to have an active social life, and offers her mother dating advice. She also has plenty of sass.
--> '''Adaline:''' Do you not remember our little talk about sodium?
--> '''Flemming:''' (''pouring salt on her dinner'') I remember. I'm just choosing to ignore it.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title mainly refers to Adaline's true chronological age considering that [[Really700YearsOld she hasn't physically aged a day past 29]] since her magical accident in 1937, but it may also vaguely allude to [[spoiler:the 78-year period of her immortality]].

* FirstGrayHair: [[spoiler: The final shot of the movie is Adaline discovering hers the year after her aging restarted, and it's the first sign she actually has that it's the case. Unusually for the trope, she's happy about it, because it means she gets to grow old with Ellis.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the start Adaline warns the man making her fake ID that the little things are what catch you out. [[spoiler: A little thing like the scar on her finger is what alerts William that she and 'Jenny' are the same person]].
* GoodParents: Adaline to Flemming, all circumstances given. Also Ellis' parents.

--> '''William:''' "When I first met this lovely lady, back in the olden days, I had... I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do in my job, but I didn't really know what I wanted to be as a man, when I grew up. If I ever grew up. But the commitment that she made, to our marriage and our family, to me, the quality of her love led me to understand that I could have no greater ambition in life than to be the best possible husband I could be for her. And I'm still working on it. So, here's to Kathy, love of my life, mate of my soul, mother of my lovely children. To Kathy.

* IHaveManyNames: Adaline has had many over her life. She's currently going by Jenny, Regan calls her Amanda and she's planning to change to Susan.
* IdenticalGrandson: Sort of. [[spoiler: Adaline passes herself off as her own daughter 'Jenny' when she comes face to face with an old flame]].

* LightningCanDoAnything: Adaline stops aging in 1937 after crashing her car in a snowstorm (near San Francisco), freezing to death, then getting struck by lightning. The voice-over says a theory discovered 20 years after the story explains it scientifically. [[spoiler:The effect gets reversed by repeating all conditions, with a defibrillator substituting for the lightning]].
* LikesOlderWomen: Regan certainly ''thinks'' this is the case, seeing as she believes Adaline is middle-aged, like she is, and young men keep approaching her at parties.

--> '''Flemming:''' "If I had your looks and your energy, I'd fall in love tomorrow."
* TheLostLenore: Adaline's husband and Flemming's father. She only had one more relationship in the space of a hundred years after that. It's downplayed but she's never gotten close to another man, as she doesn't want to lose another.
* LoveFatherLoveSon: Adaline Bowman previously dated William Jones back in the 60's when they were a young couple and in the present day, unintentionally fell in love with his son Ellis Jones.
* MagicRealism: Adaline is a woman that never ages but the movie portrays her as a normal woman just trying to live her life.
* MayflyDecemberFriendship: The only friend Adaline stays with for a significant period of time is blind and thus unable to notice Adaline's ongoing youth.

* {{Motif}}: Stars, comets, and constellations frequently appear.
* MyGrandsonMyself: Adaline usually doesn't fake a familial relationship with her new identities, but when she realizes Ellis's father is a former boyfriend who recognizes her, she quickly claims to be her own daughter to explain the resemblance. [[spoiler:It doesn't fool him for long, because he recognizes a scar on her hand.]]

* TheOneThatGotAway: Adaline was this for a man called William, [[spoiler: Ellis's father]].

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: Adaline falls in love and it's implied she'll get to grow old with the son of William, the one man she told her real name and nearly married]].

** Adaline is hit on by three guys at the New Year's Eve party - Dale the painter, an unnamed man suggesting she kiss a stranger, and Ellis. The last one is of course the one who becomes the main love interest. Ellis is also the third love interest Adaline has had in the story. Her husband Clarence from before she stopped ageing and then William, with whom she had a fling in TheSixties.

* ShipperOnDeck: Kiki is this for [[spoiler: Ellis and Adaline]], as is Flemming when she finds out.
* SnowMeansDeath: Adaline first "dies" after running her car off the road into a freezing river in an unusual snowfall. [[spoiler:It happens again after she decides to stop running and is injured in a car crash. The snow recreates the same condition in her body as the first time, and a paramedic's defibrillator completes the process, bringing her back to life, mortal once again]].

* TheyWouldCutYouUp: After being discovered by a police officer, Adaline narrowly escaped being sent somewhere presumably for "study". She clearly fears a repeat of this and what that might include, staying under the radar over the subsequent decades.

* TroubledBackStoryFlashback: The loss of her husband, the accident that stopped her ageing and her eventual going into hiding is relayed while Adaline watches old newsreel footage.
* UndeadTaxExemption: After being stopped for having ID which (accurately) stated her age but not [[OlderThanTheyLook matching this due to being immortal]], Adaline narrowly escaped having the FBI sent her somewhere, presumably for "[[TheyWouldCutYouUp study]]". Since then she's regularly had many fake documents made for her, as we see when she deals with the latest forger she hired. Her name's been changed numerous times as a result.
* WalkingTheEarth: Adaline has lived all over the United States and the farthest that she's traveled was England and France.
* WealthyPhilanthropist: Ellis is a doctor and astronomer's son who's also made a huge fortune - and uses it to help restore historical artefacts around the city.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Adaline is shown investing in Xerox, her stockbroker warns her it's likely to be many years before it will pay off. This is not followed up on afterwards.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Adaline's immortality forces her to become reclusive, constantly on the move, and shut herself off from being close to anyone. [[spoiler:Her happy ending is discovering that she has started aging again]].

Adaline (Lively) dies at the age of 29 after crashing her car into a freezing river in 1937. She is then resurrected by a bolt of [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]] but discovers that she does not age any longer. Nearly eight decades later, at the age of 107, she meets and falls in love with Ellis (Huisman) but resists his attempts to woo her, fearing that she will outlive him.

* UndeadTaxExemption: After being stopped for having ID which (accurately) stated her age but [[OlderThanTheyLook matching this]], Adaline narrowly escaped having the FBI sent her somewhere, presumably for "[[TheyWouldCutYouUp study]]". Since then she's regularly had many fake documents made for her, as we see when she deals with the latest forger she hired. Her name's been changed numerous times as a result.

''The Age of Adaline'' is an epic {{fantastic romance}} starring Creator/BlakeLively, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/MichielHuisman, Creator/KathyBaker, Creator/AmandaCrew, and Creator/EllenBurstyn.

Adaline (Lively) dies at the age of 29 after crashing her car into a freezing river in 1937. She is then resurrected by a bolt of [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]] but discovers that she does not age any longer. Nearly eight decades later, at the age of 106, she meets and falls in love with Ellis (Huisman) but resists his attempts to woo her, fearing that she will outlive him.

Adaline (Lively) dies at the age of 29 after crashing her car into a freezing river in 1937. She is then resurrected by a bolt of [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]] but discovers that she does not age normally. Nearly eight decades later, she meets and falls in love with Ellis (Huisman) but resists his attempts to woo her, fearing that she will outlive him.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Adaline's spaniel, Reese, appears to be one out of many dogs she's had over the years

* HotLibrarian: Adaline works as a librarian in ThePresentDay.

* SceneryPorn: The many shots of San Francisco

* AdultFear: Being immortal, Adaline gets to see every single one of her loved ones die. Her own daughter even implies that she herself could die soon, much to Adaline's discomfort.

* BlindAndTheBeast: A variation with Adaline and her blind friend. While Adaline isn't hideous in the slightest, her friend's blindness ensures that she doesn't realize Adaline hasn't aged along with her. It's implied she's one of the few people Adaline has kept in contact with, precisely for this reason.

* IHaveManyNames: Adaline has had many over her life. She's currently going by Jenny, her blind friend calls her Amanda and she's planning to change to Susan.

* LikesOlderWomen: Adaline's blind friend certainly ''thinks'' this is the case, seeing as she believes Adaline is middle-aged, like she is, and young men keep approaching her at parties.

** Adaline also has three different aliases that we know about in the film. She's currently going by Jenny, her older blind friend knows her as Amanda, and her next planned one is Susan.

* ShipperOnDeck: Kiki is this for [[spoiler: Ellis and Adaline]] even Flemming when she finds out

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Adaline is on her way to this, since her daughter Flemming is already well into her old age while Adaline herself is frozen in time.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While remotely possible for a child to grow to look identical to a parent, which Adaline uses to explain looking identical to her "mother", an identical beauty mark is not an inherited trait that gets passed down. Rather than cover up or use cgi to remove this distinctive feature of Blake Lively's, it just goes unremarked upon by anyone.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While remotely possible for a child to grow to look identical to a parent, which Adaline uses to explain looking identical to her "mother", a beauty mark is not an inherited trait that gets passed down. Rather than cover up or use cgi to remove this distinctive feature of Blake Lively's, it just goes unremarked upon by anyone.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: While remotely possible for a child to grow to look identical to a parent, which Adaline uses to explain looking identical to her "mother's" old flame, a beauty mark is not an inherited trait that gets passed down. Rather than cover up or use cgi to remove this distinctive feature of Blake Lively's, it just goes unremarked upon by anyone.

''The Age of Adaline'' is an epic {{fantastic romance}} starring Creator/BlakeLively, Creator/HarrisonFord, Creator/MichielHuisman, Kathy Baker, Amanda Crew, and Creator/EllenBurstyn.

* WealthyPhilanthropist: Ellis is a doctor and astronomer's son who's also inherited a huge fortune - and uses it to help restore historical artefacts around the city.