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* LipstickLesbian: Alex is a feminine lesbian, [[spoiler:and so is Nina]].

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* LipstickLesbian: Alex is a feminine lesbian, [[spoiler:and so is Nina]]. They have long hair and often wear very nice dresses along with being madeup.
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: Sara comes upon David's corpse, and then foolishly hands the knife used to murder him-just as the police arrive.

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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: Sara comes upon David's corpse, and then foolishly hands handles the knife used to murder him-just as the police arrive.
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* MsFanservice: Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner and Kate Levering all appear in swimsuits, underwear or near-nudity while kissing, just about to have sex or post-coitus while portraying their characters.

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* MsFanservice: Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner Creator/AgnesBruckner and Kate Levering all appear in swimsuits, underwear or near-nudity while kissing, just about to have sex or post-coitus while portraying their characters.
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A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have then gotten involved proposes they each murder the others "problem". Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "deal" too...

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A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar bar, Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have then gotten involved proposes they each murder the others other's "problem". Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only is serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "deal" too...



* EngineeredPublicConfession: Sara [[spoiler:and Nina]] manipulates [[spoiler:Alex]] into confessing her crimes while the police are listening.

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* EngineeredPublicConfession: Sara [[spoiler:and Nina]] manipulates manipulate [[spoiler:Alex]] into confessing her crimes while the police are listening.



* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Alex shows this while lying in bed, with only a sheet covering her backside. Nina also has while having sex with David on a lawn chair (as Sara and Alex watch). She also has some garment covering her bum.

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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Alex shows this while lying in bed, with only a sheet covering her backside. Nina also has it while having sex with David on a lawn chair (as Sara and Alex watch). She also has some garment covering her bum.

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A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard "[[StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder Strangers On A Train]]" plot but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have then gotten involved proposes they each murder the others "problem". Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "deal" too...
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A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard "[[StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder Strangers On A Train]]" plot StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have then gotten involved proposes they each murder the others "problem". Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "deal" too...
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* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Sara]] has relationships with both a man and woman in the film. She also manipulates people into committing murder on her behalf.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Sara and [[spoiler:Nina]] manipulate [[spoiler:Alex]] into confessing her crimes while the police are listening.

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* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Sara]] has relationships with both a man and a woman in the film. She also manipulates people into committing murder on her behalf.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Sara and [[spoiler:Nina]] manipulate [[spoiler:and Nina]] manipulates [[spoiler:Alex]] into confessing her crimes while the police are listening.



* LipstickLesbian: Alex and [[spoiler:Nina]] are both feminine lesbians.

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* LipstickLesbian: Alex and [[spoiler:Nina]] are both is a feminine lesbians.lesbian, [[spoiler:and so is Nina]].



* QueerRomance: Sara's relationship with Alex puts the plot in motion. [[spoiler:Alex]]'s with [[spoiler:Nina]] moves it further.

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* QueerRomance: Sara's relationship with Alex puts the plot in motion. [[spoiler:Alex]]'s [[spoiler:Alex's with [[spoiler:Nina]] Nina moves it further. further.]]

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* QueerRomance: Sara's relationship with Alex puts the plot in motion. [[spoiler:Alex]]'s with [[spoiler:Nina]] moves it further.



* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Alex shows this while lying in bed, with only a sheet covering her backside. Nina also has while having sex with David on a lawn chair (as Sara and Alex watch).

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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Alex shows this while lying in bed, with only a sheet covering her backside. Nina also has while having sex with David on a lawn chair (as Sara and Alex watch). She also has some garment covering her bum.

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A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard "[[StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder Strangers On A Train]]" plot but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have gotten involved proposes they each murder the others person. Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "bargain"...

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[[quoteright:182:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/breaking_the_girls.jpg]]
A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard "[[StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder Strangers On A Train]]" plot but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have then gotten involved proposes they each murder the others person. "problem". Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "bargain"..."deal" too...


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* ModestyBedsheet: Every female character keeps a sheet up to their breasts after sex.
* MsFanservice: Madeline Zima, Agnes Bruckner and Kate Levering all appear in swimsuits, underwear or near-nudity while kissing, just about to have sex or post-coitus while portraying their characters.


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* SexyDiscretionShot: Whenever a couple starts getting busy, the scene fades out to show something else, or them in bed together afterward (except for Nina and David, though it's not explicit).


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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Alex shows this while lying in bed, with only a sheet covering her backside. Nina also has while having sex with David on a lawn chair (as Sara and Alex watch).
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* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: Alex proposes this to Sara. At first the latter thinks she was joking, but Alex turns out to mean it and insists Sara fulfill her part (despite not having agreed). Then it's {{subverted}} as the Sara gets arrested and it turns out Alex set her up.

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* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: Alex proposes this to Sara. At first the latter thinks she was joking, but Alex turns out to mean it and insists Sara fulfill her part (despite not having agreed). Then it's {{subverted}} as the Sara gets arrested before committing murder and it turns out Alex set her up.

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* TheBeard: [[spoiler:Nina]] pretended she's straight and married [[spoiler:David]] since it would get her his money after he died. She complains of how disgusting it was to her having sex with him.



* LipstickLesbian: Alex and [[spoiler:Nina]] are both feminine women. Both also only like women.


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* LipstickLesbian: Alex and [[spoiler:Nina]] are both feminine lesbians.
* MissingMom: Alex's mother drowned in their pool years ago-Alex says this was a suicide. [[spoiler:Later though it's indicated that Alex's father killed her.]]


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* ParentalAbandonment: Sara's father abandoned her as a child. Then her mother died, so she lived with her aunt.
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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: Alex says Sara can simply murder her love interest's girlfriend (who also has ruined Sara's life). Sara believes it's just a drunken joke at first, but Alex means it.

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* MurderTheHypoteneuse: MurderTheHypotenuse: Alex says Sara can simply murder her love interest's girlfriend (who also has ruined Sara's life). Sara believes it's just a drunken joke at first, but Alex means it.
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* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Sara]] has relationships with both a man and woman in the film. She also manipulates people into murder.

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* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Sara]] has relationships with both a man and woman in the film. She also manipulates people into murder.committing murder on her behalf.
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A crime thriller film from 2012 in the US. Its plot begins as a twist on the standard "[[StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder Strangers On A Train]]" plot but then goes another direction. Sara Ryan, a struggling college student, is attracted to Eric Nolan, who's taken. His girlfriend, realizing this, uses her influence to get Sara's scholarship revoked and end her study at the college. Sara meets a young woman in a bar Alex, whom she has mutual attraction with. Alex has an issue with her stepmother, who she loathes, and when the two have gotten involved proposes they each murder the others person. Sara dismisses it as a joke at first, but then realizes Alex not only serious but expects her to follow through with their supposed "bargain"...
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* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: Sara comes upon David's corpse, and then foolishly hands the knife used to murder him-just as the police arrive.
* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler:Sara]] has relationships with both a man and woman in the film. She also manipulates people into murder.
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Sara and [[spoiler:Nina]] manipulate [[spoiler:Alex]] into confessing her crimes while the police are listening.
* FrameUp: Sara reluctantly agrees to murder Nina as Alex insisted, but when she arrives at the house [[spoiler: David]] has been murdered already, with it looking like she did this. The police were tipped off and arrive while she's there, arresting her immediately.
* HoneyTrap: Alex seduced Sara, and it turns out this was precisely to manipulate her into committing murder. [[spoiler:However, this was actually Sara and Nina's plan-they were manipulating ''Alex'' the whole time.]]
* LipstickLesbian: Alex and [[spoiler:Nina]] are both feminine women. Both also only like women.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Sara]] and [[spoiler:Nina]] get away with two murders by pinning everything on [[spoiler:Alex]].
* MurderTheHypoteneuse: Alex says Sara can simply murder her love interest's girlfriend (who also has ruined Sara's life). Sara believes it's just a drunken joke at first, but Alex means it.
* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Alex]] murdered her father [[spoiler:David]] to gain her inheritance.
* PsychoLesbian: Alex and [[spoiler:Nina]]. They are both manipulative and plot murder to get money. One means they use is seducing people while also being involved with each other.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Sara]] and [[spoiler:Nina]] are actually half-sisters.
* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: Alex proposes this to Sara. At first the latter thinks she was joking, but Alex turns out to mean it and insists Sara fulfill her part (despite not having agreed). Then it's {{subverted}} as the Sara gets arrested and it turns out Alex set her up.
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Sara]] and [[spoiler:Nina]] were the instigators of the whole plot.

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