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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Sally ends up sleeping with Jack, although it's more to get Jack to finally do some repairs around the house more than anything else.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- the persona he also uses in most of his comedy, and not a million miles from [[Series/BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.
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'''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''Series/BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

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'''''A ''A Film with Me in It''''' It'' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''Series/BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Mark managed to persuade the policewoman to come back to inspect the house the next day, right before Pierce strikes her over the head with a shovel.

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Mark (Doherty) is a going-nowhere actor and clarinet player who lives in a crumbling flat with his increasingly disgruntled and frustrated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) and his wheelchair-bound and vegetative brother David (David O'Doherty), and spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend Pierce (Moran), a struggling screenwriter and director who is planning a project which is intended to kickstart their respective careers. His flat is slowly falling to bits because his landlord, Jack (Keith Allen), refuses to do repairs until he gets the rent owed from the perpetually short-of-cash Mark. [[DisasterDominoes This is significant.]]

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Mark (Doherty) is a going-nowhere actor and clarinet player who lives in a crumbling flat with his increasingly disgruntled and frustrated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) and his wheelchair-bound and vegetative brother David (David O'Doherty), and spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend Pierce (Moran), a struggling screenwriter and director who is planning a project which is intended to kickstart their respective careers. His flat is slowly falling to bits because his landlord, Jack (Keith Allen), refuses to do repairs until he gets the rent owed from the perpetually short-of-cash Mark.

[[DisasterDominoes This is significant.]]
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'''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

Mark (Doherty) is a going-nowhere actor and clarinet player who lives in a crumbling flat with his increasingly disgruntled and frustrated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) and his wheelchair-bound and vegetative brother David (David O'Doherty), and spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend Pierce (Moran), a struggling screenwriter and director who is planning a project which is intended to kickstart their respective careers. His flat is slowly falling to bits because his landlord Jack (Keith Allen) refuses to do repairs until he gets the rent owed from the perpetually short-of-cash Mark. [[DisasterDominoes This is significant.]]

One day, a wobbling chandelier finally gives up the struggle against gravity, which kickstarts a chain reaction of accidents that result in an increasing number of dead bodies piling up in the flat before Mark's disbelieving eyes. Panicking, he summons Pierce for help, who hits upon the idea of treating it as if it were a pitch for a film to enable the two to figure out how to get out of the mess in which they've become embroiled.

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'''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' ''Series/BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

Mark (Doherty) is a going-nowhere actor and clarinet player who lives in a crumbling flat with his increasingly disgruntled and frustrated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) and his wheelchair-bound and vegetative brother David (David O'Doherty), and spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend Pierce (Moran), a struggling screenwriter and director who is planning a project which is intended to kickstart their respective careers. His flat is slowly falling to bits because his landlord landlord, Jack (Keith Allen) Allen), refuses to do repairs until he gets the rent owed from the perpetually short-of-cash Mark. [[DisasterDominoes This is significant.]]

One day, a wobbling chandelier finally gives up the struggle against gravity, which kickstarts a chain reaction of accidents that result in an increasing number of dead bodies piling up in the flat before Mark's disbelieving eyes. Panicking, he summons Pierce for help, who hits upon the idea of treating it as if it were a pitch for a film film, to enable the two to figure out how to get out of the mess in which they've become embroiled.



!!''A Film With Me In It'' contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- the persona he also uses in most of his comedy, and not a million miles from [[BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.

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!!''A Film With Me In in It'' contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- the persona he also uses in most of his comedy, and not a million miles from [[BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.
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*** Additionally, the opening credits has [[spoiler:Jack visibly using his screwdriver before placing it in his breast pocket ''with the point upwards'', alluding to how he kills himself.]]

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*** Additionally, the opening credits has have [[spoiler:Jack visibly using his screwdriver before placing it in his breast pocket ''with the point upwards'', alluding to how he kills himself.]]



* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Mark managed to convince the policewoman to come back to inspect the house the next day, right before Pierce strikes her over the head with a shovel.
* TheDanza: Mark and David.

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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Mark managed to convince persuade the policewoman to come back to inspect the house the next day, right before Pierce strikes her over the head with a shovel.
* TheDanza: Mark and David.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch: After a policewoman stumbles upon the scene, Pierce decides she has to go. [[spoiler:He ultimately can't bring himself to do it, but the Disaster Dominoes of the flat take care of her anyway.]]



* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: After a policewoman stumbles upon the scene, Pierce decides she has to go. [[spoiler:He ultimately can't bring himself to do it, but the Disaster Dominoes of the flat take care of her anyway.]]



* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Sally ends up sleeping with Jack, although it's more to get Jack to finally do some repairs around the house more than anything else.]]

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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Sally [[spoiler:Sally ends up sleeping with Jack, although it's more to get Jack to finally do some repairs around the house more than anything else.]]
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/376587_full.jpg]] '''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

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'''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.
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'''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/376587_full.jpg]] '''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.
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2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

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'''''A Film with Me in It''''' is a 2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Mark managed to convince the policewoman to come back to inspect the house the next day, right before Pierce strikes her over the head with a shovel.


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* ShovelStrike: Pierce deals one to the policewoman after she turns up at the flat to deal with a noise complaint.
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* GenreSavvy: Both Mark and Pierce attempt to apply to this to their situation. Unfortunately, they're not incredibly good at it.
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* ChekhovsGun: Almost everything in the flat:
** The wonky chandelier [[spoiler:falls on David, crushing him to death.]]
** A flickering lightbulb [[spoiler:which electrocutes Jack, causing him to fall and be impaled by a screwdriver through the neck.]]
** Mark's clarinet [[spoiler:which he forgets to put back on its stand, meaning that Sally impales herself on said stand when she faints.]]
** A loose, heavy window [[spoiler:which crushes the neck of a policewoman who stumbles upon the scene in the flat and tries to escape through it.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Almost everything in the flat:
''Very'' frequent:
** The wonky chandelier [[spoiler:falls on David, crushing loose shelf [[spoiler:collapses and bludgeons Jersey the dog, killing him to death.instantly.]]
** A flickering lightbulb [[spoiler:which electrocutes Jack, causing The loose chandelier [[spoiler:falls on David, crushing him to fall and be impaled by a screwdriver through the neck.death.]]
** Mark's clarinet [[spoiler:which he forgets The wobbly stool near the flickering light [[spoiler:causes Jack, attempting to put back on its stand, meaning that Sally impales herself on fix said stand when she faints.light, to topple and land on his screwdriver, impaling himself in the neck.]]
*** Additionally, the opening credits has [[spoiler:Jack visibly using his screwdriver before placing it in his breast pocket ''with the point upwards'', alluding to how he kills himself.]]
** A loose, heavy window Mark's clarinet [[spoiler:which crushes he forgets to put back on its stand, causes Sally to impale herself on said stand when she faints.]]
*** [[spoiler:Additionally, the clarinet comes into play when Mark uses it to fake his death.]]
** The loose window that keeps slamming [[spoiler:crushes
the neck of a the policewoman who stumbles upon the scene in the flat and tries trying to escape through it.when she disbelieves Mark and Pierce's corpse explanation.]]
** Mark's towed car [[spoiler:is notably filled with petrol; it later returns as body disposal when Mark and Pierce use said petrol to burn the car and the bodies.
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* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- a role not a million miles from [[BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.

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* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- a role the persona he also uses in most of his comedy, and not a million miles from [[BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.playing.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Sally ends up sleeping with Jack, although it's more to get Jack to finally do some repairs around the house more than anything else.]]
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2008 Irish BlackComedy/Thriller starring Dylan Moran (of ''BlackBooks'' fame) and Mark Doherty, who also wrote the script.

Mark (Doherty) is a going-nowhere actor and clarinet player who lives in a crumbling flat with his increasingly disgruntled and frustrated girlfriend Sally (Amy Huberman) and his wheelchair-bound and vegetative brother David (David O'Doherty), and spends most of his time hanging out with his best friend Pierce (Moran), a struggling screenwriter and director who is planning a project which is intended to kickstart their respective careers. His flat is slowly falling to bits because his landlord Jack (Keith Allen) refuses to do repairs until he gets the rent owed from the perpetually short-of-cash Mark. [[DisasterDominoes This is significant.]]

One day, a wobbling chandelier finally gives up the struggle against gravity, which kickstarts a chain reaction of accidents that result in an increasing number of dead bodies piling up in the flat before Mark's disbelieving eyes. Panicking, he summons Pierce for help, who hits upon the idea of treating it as if it were a pitch for a film to enable the two to figure out how to get out of the mess in which they've become embroiled.
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!!''A Film With Me In It'' contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: Dylan Moran plays a rather eccentric struggling alcoholic with pretensions of being a writer -- a role not a million miles from [[BlackBooks a certain bookshop owner]] he became famous for playing.
* TheAlcoholic: Pierce is very reluctantly admitting he's one of these.
* BlackComedy
* TheCastShowOff: In-story; Mark insists on making the hero of Pierce's script a clarinet player so that only he [Mark] can play the role.
* ChekhovsGun: Almost everything in the flat:
** The wonky chandelier [[spoiler:falls on David, crushing him to death.]]
** A flickering lightbulb [[spoiler:which electrocutes Jack, causing him to fall and be impaled by a screwdriver through the neck.]]
** Mark's clarinet [[spoiler:which he forgets to put back on its stand, meaning that Sally impales herself on said stand when she faints.]]
** A loose, heavy window [[spoiler:which crushes the neck of a policewoman who stumbles upon the scene in the flat and tries to escape through it.]]
* TheDanza: Mark and David.
* DisasterDominoes: The entire flat is just one of these waiting to happen.
* GenreSavvy: Both Mark and Pierce attempt to apply to this to their situation. Unfortunately, they're not incredibly good at it.
* HeroicBSOD: The stress of the day gets to both Mark and Pierce.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Inverted; all the deaths are completely accidental, but occur in circumstances and have results that would instantly look suspicious to any outside observer.
* [[HeKnowsTooMuch She Knows Too Much]]: After a policewoman stumbles upon the scene, Pierce decides she has to go. [[spoiler:He ultimately can't bring himself to do it, but the Disaster Dominoes of the flat take care of her anyway.]]
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