The Sex Trip is a 2016 movie produced by Bridgegate Films.
Eddie Greenleaf is a womanizing man known for his pick-up-artist books. When he's confronted by an ugly old woman outside of a club, he's told that he should kiss her to prove that he's not as shallow as he seems — and he rudely turns her down. The next morning, he wakes up as a woman (played by Jade Ramsey). Eddie, now pretending to be his own sister Edna Greenleaf, decides to use his new look to get a woman's perspective on romance and sex — which threatens to change the way he sees relationships forever.
This film features examples of:
- All Men Are Perverts: The movie features several men hitting on "Edna" at every opportunity, especially his best friend Steve, who is not subtle about his attraction to his female body. Eddie is no better at the beginning, being a shallow womanizer who only cares about one-night stands and attracts a crowd of socially awkward men who want to learn to sleep with women. When Eddie learns his lesson and regains his original body, he releases his third book, which looks at things from a women's perspective — and the women are relieved to be understood by at least one man.
- All Periods Are PMS: After being yelled at by Jess, Eddie admits to Steve that he's suddenly getting overly emotional about everything, such as crying when he gets ketchup on his shirt. He later responds to Steve's admittance of having sex dreams about "Edna" by agreeing to have sex. Moments later, Eddie discovers that he's bleeding, explaining the past few scenes as PMS.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: While stuck as a woman, Eddie is considered physically desirable by pretty much every man in the movie, and is repeatedly referred to as being "hot".
- Cassandra Truth: Eddie tries to convince Jess of two things: That Matt is a cheating, lying scumbag, and that he's really a man in a woman's body, but she's having none of it, instead shouting that they're insane and ending the friendship.
- Costume-Test Montage: Eddie and Steve visit a clothing store to help Eddie dress like a girl. After he tries on a too-tight pair of underwear and a bra, a montage ensues of him trying various outfits with Steve reacting to his new looks.
- Different for Girls: Downplayed. Eddie is decent enough at acting like a girl, but at the beginning of his transformation, he slips up on things like not knowing his clothing size and putting on way too much makeup.
- Erotic Dream: Steve admits to having wet dreams about "Edna". He's surprisingly ashamed to be having them, as despite finding Eddie's female body attractive, he apparently still has enough self-awareness to understand that this is strange. They stop entirely following Eddie's first period, where Steve is able to finally get over the inconvenient crush.
- First Period Panic: Eddie goes into the bathroom to get undressed when he's about to have sex with Steve. Immediately, he screams, and Steve runs in to see Eddie covered in blood, with bloody handprints on the glass and on his face, claiming that he's dying. They go to the hospital, and the next scene features them both laughing about being so clueless.
- Food Slap: Eddie tries to boost Jess's confidence by having her meet a man at the bar. This man brushes her off by insisting he's got a girlfriend and wants to be left alone. When Eddie goes over, he's able to get his attention immediately, and the man immediately offers her a drink. Eddie asks if he's single, and this time he claims to be, so he responds by throwing a drink in the man's face for being a scumbag.
- Gender Bender: The plot of the movie is that Eddie is turned into a woman through a witch's curse, and he spends a bulk of the movie as "Edna".
- The Glasses Gotta Go: Subverted. When trying to help Jess gain some confidence, Eddie asks if she actually needs her glasses, implying that they should be removed. Jess explains that she needs them to see, and Eddie agrees to keep them on.
- Gross Gum Gag: After having sex in the first scene of the movie with a girl who was more interested in her gum, Eddie steps on that chewed gum with his bare feet and lifts it up to show a string attaching him to the floor.
- Just Woke Up That Way: Though he's cursed in the evening, Eddie's transformation doesn't start until he falls asleep after a night of sex, at which point he wakes up, walks to the bathroom and looks in the mirror.
- Karmic Transformation: Eddie literally wrote the book on how to manipulate and take advantage of women, then is transformed into a woman himself.
- Ladykiller in Love: Eddie normally just goes for girls that he can get into bed with quickly, and discards those girls just as quickly. When he gets to know Jess as a friend, though, he gets really attached, and begins to gush about how intelligent and compassionate she is while complaining that Jess is falling for a scumbag like Matt. He even admits that Jess isn't like the girls he usually sleeps with, and admits that for once, he might be thinking about settling down into a long-term relationship — something Steve scoffs at.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Eddie literally wrote the book on how to manipulate women. Now, suddenly he is a woman, himself.
- Magical Homeless Person: When Eddie and Steve go to hunt for the witch that turned Eddie into a woman, they assume she must be homeless, and go hunting for her at various shelters around the city. They have no luck finding her, however, which means their assumption may have been wrong.
- Manipulative Bastard: Matt charms both Eddie and Jess very easily, but Eddie detects something's off with him when he claims to work at a homeless shelter, but refuses to name which one. Jess continues to be charmed by him enough to go on more dates, while Eddie can recognize his manipulation tactics and does some digging, and learns that Matt's not just manipulative — he's also a married man with children. Sadly, Jess is so in love with him by this point that she brushes off Eddie's warnings as romantic jealousy.
- Mirror Reveal: Eddie wakes up in another woman's bed the day after he gets cursed. We only see his legs as he walks from the bed to the bathroom, and then the camera pans up as both he and the audience discover, via the mirror, that he's turned into a woman.
- Pretending to Be One's Own Relative: Eddie accidentally uses his real surname, Greenleaf, when introducing himself. From then on, the story is that he's Edna Greenleaf, his own sister. This leads to a moment where Jess asks why he won't set her up with Eddie, and he makes up a story about Eddie being in prison for an indefinite amount of time.
- Insulting from Behind the Language Barrier: When Eddie and Jess are out getting pedicures at an Asian spa, the ladies who work there start to have a discussion in Chinese, making fun of the two of them — in the middle of doing their feet, no less.
- Something Only They Would Say: When Steve is called over to Eddie's house on the day of the transformation, he's very skeptical that the woman he's talking to is his best friend. To make him prove it, he forces Eddie to recount what happened one night when they were both wasted. Eddie is furious, but still provides the correct answer — that they gave each-other handjobs, something they both otherwise swore to never share.
- Took a Level in Kindness:
- Eddie begins the movie as a selfish, rude womanizer. Due to his transformation, he gains a new perspective and becomes a lot nicer, gaining a newfound sense of empathy and romance that he'd previously lacked.
- Steve spends much of the movie as a major pervert who shamelessly hits on women and doesn't care about romance. After a timeskip, it's revealed that he's cleaned up his act and is now in a committed relationship with a woman he'd previously been inappropriate to, proving that he, too, learned something from Eddie's experiences.
- Witch Classic: The witch who curses Eddie is a small, elderly woman with a face covered in warts, a long curved nose, and a magical walking stick.
- Wrong Bathroom Incident: Eddie, who'd been afflicted with a Gender Bender curse, attempted to go to the gym. While there, he wandered into the men's locker room on instinct and got booted out. Instead, he changed in the women's locker room and was very appreciative of all of the women changing around him.
- You're Just Jealous: Jess refuses to believe Eddie's warnings about Matt because she interprets them as being based in jealousy, specifically believing that "Edna" had lied about not being a lesbian.
- Your Makeup Is Running: Eddie is wearing a full face of makeup for a charity fashion show, when he and Jess have a fight over Matt and whether or not Eddie is lying about his curse. Jess ends their friendship, and the next scene shows Eddie running ungracefully down the runway, with their mascara streaking down their face.
