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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Music/EricClapton If you wanna get down, down on the ground? Cocaine!]]'']]
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** When Mirtha visits George in prison and informing him that she plans to divorce him and ask for alimony, she wants some kind of response from him. He replies that he has none since he's in prison. Mirtha then calls him selfish and always thinking about himself...even though she is more selfish than him.

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** When Mirtha visits George in prison and informing him that she plans to divorce him and ask for alimony, she wants some kind of response from him. He replies that he has none since he's in prison. Mirtha then calls him selfish and always thinking about himself...even though she is more selfish than him.he.
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* TheCameo: Creator/BobcatGoldthwait appears in one scene measuring the purity of cocaine.

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* TheCameo: Creator/BobcatGoldthwait appears in one the scene measuring the purity of cocaine.



* PetTheDog: With all the selfish attitude she exhibits, Mirtha genuinely asks George if he's okay after he drops of their daughter.

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* PetTheDog: With all the selfish attitude she exhibits, Mirtha genuinely asks George if he's okay after he drops of off their daughter.
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'''George''': Uhh... [[ShoutOut We're gonna need]] [[{{Film/Jaws}} a bigger boat]].

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'''George''': Uhh... [[ShoutOut [[{{Film/Jaws}} We're gonna need]] [[{{Film/Jaws}} need a bigger boat]].
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--> [[Film/EdWood Old habits]] die hard.

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--> [[Film/EdWood Old habits]] die hard.are hard to break.
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* FlippingTheBird: George does this in his mugshot.

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* PowerWalk: Creator/JohnnyDepp in a white turtleneck and trench coat, rockin' 70s sideburns, to "Black Betty." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj22LOCN6FM Ram-a-lam]].


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* TeamPowerWalk: Creator/JohnnyDepp in a white turtleneck and trench coat, rockin' 70s sideburns, to "Black Betty." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj22LOCN6FM Ram-a-lam]].
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* CreatorCameo: Director Ted Demme as Arch, George's lawyer that gives him a tape recorder.
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* FreezeFrameIntroduction: The movie starts with an OpeningMonologue in which the hero and his best bud are introduced via a still frame.
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* PlayingGertrude: George's mother is played by Creator/RachelGriffiths, who is five years younger than Johnny Depp, and Creator/RayLiotta is only eight years older. This is at least partially justified as most of their scenes are set during George's childhood.
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** George's Jung's daughter Kristina appears as a clerk.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Kevin Dulli, George's friend from New England, Massachusetts. He later plays a role in George going to prison for the third time.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Kevin Dulli, George's and Tuna's friend from New England, Massachusetts. He isn't seen since Barbara's death but appears later and plays a role in George going to prison for the third time.



* DisappearedDad: George becomes this after being busted with cocaine in his car and sentenced to three years in jail. Naturally, when they meet again, Kristina is not all that thrilled to bond with her dad...at first. Unfortunately, he becomes this again after he is betrayed by his team and is sentenced to 60 years in jail. Although in RealLife, he was paroled after serving 20 years.

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* DisappearedDad: George becomes this after being busted with cocaine in his car and sentenced to three years in jail. Naturally, when they meet again, Kristina is not all that thrilled to bond with her dad...at first. Unfortunately, he becomes this again after he is betrayed by his team and is sentenced to 60 years in jail. Although in RealLife, he was paroled after serving 20 years.



* DownerEnding: George loses everything over the course of his journey: his wealth, his family, his wife, and he's sentenced to 60 years in prison just as he was beginning to bond with his daughter.
* DrugsAreBad: The message that people should take from the film. By the same token, despite George's having to ultimately pay for his sins, it makes the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream ritzy lifestyle]] look awfully [[MisaimedFandom tempting]].

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* DownerEnding: George loses everything over the course of his journey: his wealth, his family, his wife, and he's sentenced to 60 years in prison just as he was beginning to bond with his daughter.
Kristina. Although in RealLife, he was paroled after serving 20 years.
* DrugsAreBad: The message {{Aesop}} that people should take from the film. By the same token, despite George's having to ultimately pay for his sins, it makes the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream ritzy lifestyle]] look awfully [[MisaimedFandom tempting]].
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* GettingHighonTheirOwnSupply: George makes this mistake after dealing cocaine.

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* GettingHighonTheirOwnSupply: GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply: George makes this mistake after dealing cocaine.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Kevin Dulli, George's friend from New England, Massachusetts. He later plays a role in George going to prison for 60 years.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Kevin Dulli, George's friend from New England, Massachusetts. He later plays a role in George going to prison for 60 years.the third time.



* DisappearedDad: George becomes this after being busted with cocaine in his car and sentenced to three years in jail. Naturally, when they meet again, Kristina is not all that thrilled to bond with her dad...at first. Unfortunately, he becomes this again after he is betrayed by his team and is sentenced to 60 years in jail.

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* DisappearedDad: George becomes this after being busted with cocaine in his car and sentenced to three years in jail. Naturally, when they meet again, Kristina is not all that thrilled to bond with her dad...at first. Unfortunately, he becomes this again after he is betrayed by his team and is sentenced to 60 years in jail. Although in RealLife, he was paroled after serving 20 years.
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* SecondLove: Mirtha is this to George, but it didn't work out since she divorced while he was in prison.

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* SecondLove: Mirtha is this to George, but it didn't work out since his second bust so she divorced him while he was in prison.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Kevin Dulli, George's friend from New England, Massachusetts. He later plays a role in George going to prison for 60 years.



* RichesToRags: After getting busted for the second time at his birthday party, all of the money George got from his drug dealing days were gone.

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* RichesToRags: After getting busted for the second time at his birthday party, all of the money George got from his drug dealing days were gone.appropriated by the Panamanian government.

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