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Added Clean Pretty Childbirth, since Doc Travers catches a live baby from a training dummy at the film's conclusion.

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* CleanPrettyChildbirth: Doctor Travers finds himself in a remote village where a woman is in labor. Being a ob/gyn, Doc Travers assists in the delivery of a baby that emerges clean and dry, and about 3 months old. A live baby was used in this scene, and even appears in the credits, but the mother was an obstetric training dummy meant to teach first responders how to "catch" during an emergency delivery.
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* ComingOutToSpouse: Dee Dee Travers is engaged to be married, but she invites her college roommate Marilyn as a bridesmaid. Dee Dee's younger sister, Connie, suspects the two women are {{Lipstick Lesbian}}s and cautions her father about this. Doctor Travers dismisses Connie's suspicions, but they prove true when the bride jilts her groom at the altar to run off with Marilyn.
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Added I Call It Vera, since Doc Travers has a custom engraved decal on his shotgun's stock: "Bernadette Rose."

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* ICallItVera: The film opens with Doctor Sullivan Travers deep in Texas plains with his close friends. They're engaged in SpontaneousSkeetShooting at golf balls struck from a tee. Doc T steps up with his Baikal over/under, and smoothly blasts a golf ball mid-flight, then gives his shotgun a loving pat right beside an engraved plate on the upper stock that reads "Bernadette Rose."
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* SpontaneousSkeetShooting: The film gives the first look at Doctor Sullivan Travers deep in Texas plains with his close friends. They've made a sport of shooting at golf balls struck from a tee. Doc T steps up with his Baikal over/under, "Bernadette Rose," and smoothly blasts the golf ball mid-flight. At this point, he's large and in charge of his life, master of his domain; this doesn't last.
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* NakedNutter: The plot truly kicks off when Kate Travis mentally regresses to childhood, strips off all her clothes, and plays naked in a nearby fountain - resulting her being committed to a mental hospital.

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* NakedNutter: The plot truly kicks off when Kate Travis mentally regresses to childhood, strips off all her clothes, and plays naked in a nearby fountain - -- resulting in her being committed to a mental hospital.
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* TheAlcoholic: Peggy likes her alcohol.

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* %%* TheAlcoholic: Peggy likes her alcohol.



* BookEnds / IronicEcho: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end of the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"

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* BookEnds / IronicEcho: BookEnds: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end of the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Rejected by Bree, Dr. T runs off to Mexico, gets lost and is found by a group of Mexican children who enlist his help in delivering a baby ("It's a boy!"). And then the movie ends.]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Rejected by Bree, Dr. T runs off to Mexico, gets lost and is found by a group of Mexican children who enlist his help in delivering a baby ("It's (it's a boy!").boy!). And then the movie ends.]]
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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Rejected by Bree, Dr. T runs off to Mexico, gets lost and is found by a group of Mexican children who enlist his help in delivering a baby. And then the movie ends.]]

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* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Rejected by Bree, Dr. T runs off to Mexico, gets lost and is found by a group of Mexican children who enlist his help in delivering a baby.baby ("It's a boy!"). And then the movie ends.]]
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''Dr. T & the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, along with Creator/HelenHunt, Creator/FarrahFawcett, Creator/LauraDern, Creator/ShelleyLong, Creator/TaraReid, Creator/KateHudson, and Creator/LivTyler.

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''Dr. T & the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy {{Satire}} film directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, along with Creator/HelenHunt, Creator/FarrahFawcett, Creator/LauraDern, Creator/ShelleyLong, Creator/TaraReid, Creator/KateHudson, and Creator/LivTyler.



* BookEnds / IronicEcho: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end if the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"

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* BookEnds / IronicEcho: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end if of the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"
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* BookEnds/IronicEcho: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end if the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"

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* BookEnds/IronicEcho: BookEnds / IronicEcho: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end if the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Bonnie is obsessed with conspiracy theories. Because of this, Travis is initially convinced that her warnings about Dee Dee and Marilyn's secret tryst are just another one of her theories.

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* BookEnds/IronicEcho: The very first conversation featuring Travis is about how his family is an all-female one, and he "wouldn't have it any other way". By the end if the film, he's so fed up with women that the very last line of the film is him excitedly exclaiming on successfully assisting a totally unrelated woman to give birth: "It's a boy! It's a boy! It's a beautiful boy!"
* ConspiracyTheorist: Bonnie Connie is obsessed with conspiracy theories. Because of this, Travis is initially convinced that her warnings about Dee Dee and Marilyn's secret tryst are just another one of her theories.
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* NakedNutter: The plot truly kicks off when Kate Travis mentally regresses to childhood, strips off all her clothes, and plays naked in a nearby fountain - resulting her being committed to a mental hospital.
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** Dee Dee is engaged to marry a man, but is secretly pursuing a tryst with her maid of honor Marilyn.
** With Kate's mental illness seemingly incurable, Travis starts wooing Bree.

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''Dr. T & the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/HelenHunt, among others.

On the eve of his eldest daughter's wedding, wealthy gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis' life starts to unravel as his beloved wife Kate suddenly suffers a mental regression, behaving like a child. Meanwhile, his older daughter Dee Dee is carrying on a secret affair with her maid of honor, Marilyn, and his youngest daughter Connie is a conspiracy nut. Further compounding things is the arrival of Travis' alcoholic sister-in-law Peggy and her three young daughters, who decide to move in, and Bree, a professional golfer who becomes Travis' lover.

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''Dr. T & the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, along with Creator/HelenHunt, Creator/FarrahFawcett, Creator/LauraDern, Creator/ShelleyLong, Creator/TaraReid, Creator/KateHudson, and Creator/HelenHunt, among others.

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On the eve of his eldest daughter's wedding, wealthy Dallas gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis' (Gere) finds his life starts beginning to unravel as his beloved wife Kate (Fawcett) suddenly suffers a mental regression, behaving like a child. Meanwhile, his older daughter bride-to-be Dee Dee (Hudson) is carrying on a secret affair with her maid of honor, Marilyn, Marilyn (Tyler), and his Travis' youngest daughter Connie (Reid) is a conspiracy nut. Further compounding things is the arrival of Travis' alcoholic sister-in-law Peggy (Dern) and her three young daughters, who decide to move in, and Bree, Bree Davis (Hunt), a professional golfer who becomes Travis' lover.






** With Kate's mental illness seemingly incurable, Travis starts wooing Bree.

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** With Kate's mental illness seemingly incurable, Travis starts wooing Bree.Bree.

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* SecretlyGayActivity: Dee Dee uses the seemingly endless preparations for her impending wedding as an excuse to spend lots of time with her maid of honor Marilyn, who is also her secret lover.
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* FanDisservice: Early in the film, Kate suffers a mental breakdown and romps naked in a fountain. There is something very unsettling about a naked mature woman acting like a child.
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''Dr. T and the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/HelenHunt, among others.

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''Dr. T and & the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/HelenHunt, among others.
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''Dr. T and the Women'' is a 2000 RomanticComedy directed by Creator/RobertAltman and starring Creator/RichardGere, Creator/FarrahFawcett, and Creator/HelenHunt, among others.

On the eve of his eldest daughter's wedding, wealthy gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis' life starts to unravel as his beloved wife Kate suddenly suffers a mental regression, behaving like a child. Meanwhile, his older daughter Dee Dee is carrying on a secret affair with her maid of honor, Marilyn, and his youngest daughter Connie is a conspiracy nut. Further compounding things is the arrival of Travis' alcoholic sister-in-law Peggy and her three young daughters, who decide to move in, and Bree, a professional golfer who becomes Travis' lover.

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!!This film contains examples of:

* TheAlcoholic: Peggy likes her alcohol.
* ArmoredClosetGay: Dee Dee is marrying a man to obscure her relationship with Marilyn.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Bonnie is obsessed with conspiracy theories. Because of this, Travis is initially convinced that her warnings about Dee Dee and Marilyn's secret tryst are just another one of her theories.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler:Towards the end, Travis proposes to Bree. She rejects him.]]
* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:Rejected by Bree, Dr. T runs off to Mexico, gets lost and is found by a group of Mexican children who enlist his help in delivering a baby. And then the movie ends.]]
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Dee Dee is engaged to marry a man, but is secretly pursuing a tryst with her maid of honor Marilyn.
** With Kate's mental illness seemingly incurable, Travis starts wooing Bree.

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