History Film / BetterThanChocolate

* SuddenShouting: When meeting with the border agent regarding her “obscene” book order, Frances manages to maintain her composure and speak in her usually stoic manner. But when the agent will not budge in his stance, Frances jumps up and screams, “THE SUPREME COURT RULED THESE BOOKS ARE NOT OBSCENE!”

* InsultBackfire: When Lila and Judy attack the skinhead gang to protect Maggie, one of skinheads calls Judy a dyke. Judy responds with a very cheerful, “Thank you!”

** Frances would be more chapstick, as though she's got sharp hair and more masculing clothing, she's not really butch in other ways.

* TransparentCloset: Maggie is pretty obviously lesbian, though at first she thinks her family are completely oblivious. It turns out that her brother's aware early on (he saw her having sex with Kim on the couch) then her mom also cottons on when she finds them together wearing only their lingerie. Because of this, Maggie never specifically has to come out in the end with them.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces:
** Maggie and Kim have sex in the club's sole working bathroom stall as a line of women are kept waiting (although they cheer them afterward).
** Paul and Carla have sex on a bench by the docks.

* DragQueen: Resoundingly deconstructed: Judy has a song about how she isn't one.

* MasturbationEqualsSexualFrustration: Lila, after complaining that as an older woman she may never get to have sex again, finds a sex toy in Maggie's apartment that she uses and really enjoys.

* AnythingThatMoves: Carla, so very very much.
* CastFullOfGay
* DragQueen: resoundingly deconstructed: Judy has a song about how she isn't one.

* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scenes between Maggie and Kim. ''All of them.''

* LipstickLesbian: Maggie definitely. Frances is more of a chapstick lesbian, and Judy is a lipstick lesbian who is also a trans woman.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Possibly the reason why Lila is unaware her daughter is gay.

* TransparentCloset: Maggie is pretty obviously gay, and yet her mother is completely oblivious.

* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scenes between Maggie and Kim. ''[[UpToEleven All of them.]]''

* {{Adorkable}}: Judy.

* TransparentCloset: Maggie is pretty obviously gay, and yet her mother is completely oblivious.

* FanDisservice: ''Everywhere''. The crowner? [[spoiler: Lila using a candy-dispensing vibrator]]. JESUS.
** Some clarification: [[spoiler: The vibrator Lila uses is not candy-dispensing. While she does have a piece of chocolate on the bedside table, what you're probably referring to are the beads often found in a rabbit-style vibrating dildo. They're not candy. The more you know!]]
* Fanservice: The sex scenes between Maggie and Kim. ''[[UpToEleven All of them.]]''

** Maggie's probably a lot closer to a chapstick lesbian (going off her clothing). Frances is butch in the way Rachel Maddow is butch.

* DragQueen: resoundingly deconstructed: Judy's CrowningMomentOfAwesome is her song about how she isn't one.

* StargateCity

''Better Than Chocolate'' is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy/ slice of life movie. It centers around Maggie, a 19-year old college dropout and lesbian who's just found her true love, an artist named Kim. And then her mother calls and says that she's getting divorced from her husband and that she and Maggie's brother Paul are going to come stay with Maggie. And Maggie's not out to her mother. Combined with that, the adult bookstore where Maggie works is being hassled by the authorities, who have confiscated a shipment of "obscene" books at the border, and proprietor Frances and transwoman Judy are both attracted to each other but too timid to do anything about it. It all comes to a head in a protest put on by Maggie which takes some rather unexpected turns.

* LipstickLesbian: Maggie definitely. Frances is more of a chapstick lesbian, and Judy is a lipstick lesbian who is also a transwoman.

'''''Better Than Chocolate''''' is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy/ slice of life movie. It centers around Maggie, a 19-year old college dropout and lesbian who's just found her true love, an artist named Kim. And then her mother calls and says that she's getting divorced from her husband and that she and Maggie's brother Paul are going to come stay with Maggie. And Maggie's not out to her mother. Combined with that, the adult bookstore where Maggie works is being hassled by the authorities, who have confiscated a shipment of "obscene" books at the border, and proprietor Frances and transwoman Judy are both attracted to each other but too timid to do anything about it. It all comes to a head in a protest put on by Maggie which takes some rather unexpected turns.

* Adorkable: Judy.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tony, the cafe owner next to 10% Books, although mildly homophobic (he doesn't like Kim and Maggie making out in his cafe, and he threatens to call his lawyer when Maggie does her performance piece), is a generally nice guy
* LipstickLesbian: Maggie definitely. Frances is more of a chapstick lesbian, and Judy is a lipstick lesbian who is also a transwoman

* TransparentCloset: Maggie is pretty obviously gay, and yet her mother is completely oblivious

'''''Better Than Chocolate''''' is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy/ slice of life movie. It centers around Maggie, a 19-year old college dropout and lesbian who's just found her true love, an artist named Kim. And then her mother calls and says that she's getting divorced from her husband and that she and Maggie's brother Paul are going to come stay with Maggie. And Maggie's not out to her mother. Combined with that, the adult bookstore where Maggie works is being hassled by the authorities, who have confiscated a shipment of "obscene" books at the border, and proprietor Frances and transwoman Judy are both attracted to each other but too timid to do anything about it. It all comes to a head in a protest put on by Maggie which takes some rather unexpected turns

* DragQueen, resoundingly deconstructed: Judy's CrowningMomentOfAwesome is her song about how she isn't one.

* DragQueen: Judy's CrowningMomentOfAwesome is her song about how she isn't one.

* IAmSong: Well, more of an I'm Not song, but sing with me now: ''I'm not a fucking drag queen''...