History Film / Boomerang

* ''Film/{{Boomerang|1947}}''
* ''Film/{{Boomerang|1992}}''

->''“I am Mr. Romance when I meet a woman. And then once I hit it, I lose interest, but that ain’t my fault.”''
-->-- '''Marcus'''

A 1992 RomanticComedy starring Creator/EddieMurphy, Robin Givens and Creator/HalleBerry.

Murphy plays Marcus, an advertisement executive who regularly picks up women,and as soon as he has slept with them, breaks up the relationship for petty reasons. He then falls in love for real.

Not to be confused with the [[Film/{{Boomerang|1947}} 1947 film of the same name]].

!!This film has examples of:

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Angela chooses Marcus over Gerard.
* AnimalMotif: Marcus is referred to as a dog, which is slang for [[TheCasanova a man who sleeps around]], throughout the movie. He turns his head like a dog anytime he sees an attractive woman and is thinking of how to get her in bed, and his {{Leitmotif}} is “Atomic Dog” by Music/GeorgeClinton.
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Marcus tells Jacqueline he can’t sleep with her, because he [[LoveEpiphany realizes he’s in love with Angela]]. To which Jacqueline responds:
-->'''Jacqueline''': If you’re in love with Angela, why are you here with me?
-->'''Marcus''': Exactly. ''[Marcus gets up and leaves.]''
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Angela slaps Marcus after he credits her with making him a better man ... which makes him attractive to Jacqueline again.
* AssholeVictim: Marcus is spurned by Jacqueline, after spurning so many woman himself.
* AwesomeMusic: Features one of the best R&B soundtracks of TheNineties, including breakout hits, “End of the Road” by Boyz II Men and “Love Shoulda Brought You Home” by Toni Braxton.
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Marcus only realizes he’s in love with Angela after he has cheated on her. Once he comes home to be with her, he finds a DearJohnLetter and her stuff gone. Ultimately subverted though, as she takes him back [[TimeSkip a few months later]].
* BettyAndVeronica: Angela vs Jacqueline. Later in the movie, Gerard and Marcus are this respectively, to Angela.
* BigEntrance: Strangé’s arrival at the party, riding a chariot powered by half-naked men.
* BreakupSong: “End of the Road” by Boyz II Men and “Love Shoulda Brought You Home” by Toni Braxton
* TheCasanova: Marcus is a massive womanizer, having his assistant send flowers to numerous women saying "Only thinking of you."
* DadaAd: Nelson and Strangé create an ad, in which Strangé is in a flaming jungle in labor and gives birth to a bottle of perfume.
* DirtyOldWoman: Lady Eloise
* TheDitz: Christie comes off as this.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Marcus’ scheming to get Christie in bed by pretending to have [[TropeyComeHome a lost dog]], then pretending to have [[{{Cuckold}} a lost love]], and [[NotStayingForBreakfast immediately leaving once they have sex]] all set up his [[TheCasanova ladykiller]] character.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Angela makes unprompted remarks about how attractive Jacqueline, leading Marcus and Angela to [[ConversedTrope converse about both this trope]] and the “EvenTheGuysWantHim” trope.
* EverythingIsRacist: Tyler. He accuses a white waitress of being racist because she refers to asparagus “spears” rather than “tips.” He later explains how the game of pool is actually a racist metaphor.
-->'''Tyler''': The white ball dominates everything, right? Knocks the shit out of the yellow ball, the red ball, right? And the game’s over when the white ball drives the black ball completely off the table. Now why is that?
-->'''Gerard''': I don’t know. But I’m sure you’ll tell me, ''[[JiveTurkey my brutha]]''?
-->'''Tyler''': It’s because of the white man’s fear of [[BlackIsBiggerInBed the sexual potency of black balls]].
-->'''Marcus''': Now that one was interesting. And the pool table is the Earth, that’s why it’s green. And they used to think the world was flat.
* {{Flanderization}}: Angela starts out as really laid back, and in one scene where she finds out where Marcus cheated on her, she tells him to "Stay the fuck out of her life!"; later on in the movie her cursing habits are amped up whereas, before that scene, she was relatively mellow.
* ForgotAboutHisPowers: After doing such a great job picking up Christie, Marcus’ technique with Jacqueline is surprisingly incompetent.
* FriendToAllChildren: To further drive home that Angela is the stereotypical NiceGirl, she also volunteers as an art teacher to under-served teenagers.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Averted in-universe. A depressed Marcus gives Nelson and Strangé ''carte blanche'' to make whatever type of commercial they want. The resulting commercial is so offensive that Marcus is suspended and nearly fired.
* HollywoodHomely
** Angela, played by Creator/HalleBerry, is treated like this in comparison to Jacqueline, just because she wears less sexy clothes than Jacqueline. However, as the movie progresses, and Angela switches to becoming the love interest, her clothing becomes much more attractive.
** Eartha Kitt is treated as too old to be hot, but she’s still [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave Eartha Kitt]]!
* IronicEcho: After Marcus cheats on Angela with Jacqueline, Angela tells him, “Love shoulda brought your ass home last night.” Later, when he has a BelatedLoveEpiphany and comes home to an empty apartment, the song playing is “Love Shoulda Brought You Home.”
* KarmaHoudini: Jacqueline spurning Marcus is intended to serve as comeuppance for all of his previous philandering. However, he then goes on to first steal Angela from his best friend, Gerard, and then cheats on Angela with Jacqueline. Despite all this, Marcus [[EasilyForgiven wins back both Gerard’s friendship and Angela’s love]] '''and''' gets to reject Jacqueline like she rejected him.
* LadykillerInLove: The whole plot point of the movie. Marcus falls in love with the one woman he thinks is his equal. [[spoiler:But soon finds out that she's an even more ruthless player than he is]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Marcus and Lady Eloise, though it's not exactly a romance …
* MeaningfulName: Strangé, who is definitely a bit of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.
* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: Marcus spends most of his relationships doing this to women due to an unconscious fear of commitment. He waits until after they've had sex, then breaks up with women because they don't have tiny feet and other such jackassery. Then he finally meets a woman he can't find fault in and falls in love.
* MonochromeCasting: Every member of the cast is of African descent, with most being African-American and a few (Grace Jones, Geoffrey Holder) Afro-Caribbean.
* NippleAndDimed: A perfume commercial is being edited and the main characters go to great lengths to figure out whether a shot of her bare chest features a nipple. Marcus insists it's just a shadow. Eventually, the editor does a close-up and declares "It's a nipple, 'cause I'm drooling".
%%* ReallyGetsAround
* RedShirt: Marcus and Angela [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]] while watching an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and seeing Kirk, Spock, [=McCoy=], and “Yeoman Johnson” beam down to an unknown planet.
* RomComJob: Both Marcus and Angela are in advertising business.
* SexyCoatFlashing: Jacqueline does this for Marcus.
* ShooOutTheClowns: Bony T, played by Creator/ChrisRock, disappears from the movie after Jacqueline spurns and humiliates Marcus.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Angela quits her volunteer work as an art teacher after Marcus cheats on her with Jacqueline. Even includes a [[DownplayedTrope minor]] EvilMakeover.
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Marcus sleeps with Lady Eloise in hopes of being appointed head of marketing, but his plan is ultimately subverted, because Lady Eloise isn’t in charge of her own company.
* TitleDrop: Angela tells Marcus that “love shoulda brought your ass home last night,” inspiring the ([[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerised]]) title of the [[HipHopSoul Toni Braxton]] song, “Love Shoulda Brought You Home.”
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Angela leaves Gerard for Gerard’s best friend, Marcus.
* VindicatedByHistory: ''Film/{{Boomerang}}'' was initially met with mixed reviews and was considered a part of Eddie Murphy’s (first) DorkAge, which went from ''Film/HarlemNights'' (1989) to ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' (1996). In the decades since, Boomerang has come to be viewed as [[http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/567777-boomerang-20-years-old-best-rom-com-ever one of the best African-American romantic comedies]] and provided [[StarMakingRole breakout performances]] for Creator/HalleBerry and, on the soundtrack, Toni Braxton.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Gerard is [[BlackAndNerdy extremely straight-laced]], while his father is flamboyant, outspoken, and loves to “coordinate.”
* WomanScorned: Yvonne, Marcus’ CrankyNeighbor who was one among many women Marcus slept with and then spurned. She now spends her time warning away other woman Marcus invites over.

* TheDitz: Christy comes off as this.
* EverythingIsRacist: Tyler has an entire rant on how billiards is a racial conspiracy because the white cue ball knocks all of the colored balls off the table, with the black eight-ball saved for last due to a fear of black sexuality.

%%* DadaAd

Murphy plays Marcus, an advertisement executive who regularly picks up women and as soon as he has slept with them, he breaks up the relationship for petty reasons. He then he falls in love for real.

A 1992 RomanticComedy starring Creator/EddieMurphy, Robing Gives and Creator/HalleBerry.

Betty and Veronica: Angela vs Jacqueline. Later in the movie, Gerard and Marcus are this respectively, to Angela.