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* GrowingUpSucks: One of the major themes of the film, even if Frances is close to 30. She struggles to adapt to the adult professional world, for a while symbolically revisiting her youth by getting humiliating work at her old college.

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* GrowingUpSucks: One of the major themes of the film, even if Frances is close to 30.27. She struggles to adapt to the adult professional world, for a while symbolically revisiting her youth by getting humiliating work at her old college.



* HighHopesZeroTalent: Frances is still an understudy at the age of 30 and it's clear she's not going anywhere, yet she holds out the hope that her big break is coming soon. It doesn't; her getting a real job at the end of the movie signifies her moving on.

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* HighHopesZeroTalent: Frances is still an understudy at the age of 30 27 and it's clear she's not going anywhere, yet she holds out the hope that her big break is coming soon. It doesn't; her getting a real job at the end of the movie signifies her moving on.
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* NoodleIncident: "What about that time you made a cake?"
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* ConvenientMiscarriage: Sophie had one off-screen. She describes it as "cool" in the sense that it saved her having an abortion, but concedes that it sounds "crass" to admit it.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Frances is a deconstruction of this. She's quirky and means well, but this generally makes it difficult for her to grow up and interact with others her age.
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*** In addition, a [[https://youtu.be/EArSUVarCWg score]] from the above-mentioned movie plays in the background during the scene where Frances runs and tries to draw cash from her card during her date.

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*** In addition, a [[https://youtu.be/EArSUVarCWg score]] be/EArSUVarCWg score]] from the above-mentioned movie plays in the background during the scene where Frances runs and tries to draw cash from her card during her date.
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*** In addition, a [[https://youtu.be/EArSUVarCWg score]] from the above-mentioned movie plays in the background during the scene where Frances runs and tries to draw cash from her card during her date.
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* AntiHero: Frances herself.


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* NoAntagonist: Frances is arguably her own antagonist with her AntiHero status. Sophie might be breaking up with Frances, but she doesn't mean to hurt her, and Frances hates Patch, who she actually realises [[spoiler:that she likes and he likes her]].

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* BlatantLies: Every time Frances assures everyone that everything's ''totally'' fine with Sophie.



** This is also a shared characteristic between Sophie and Frances, although Frances seems to be less so. She is visibly bored when Rachel's friends are talking about their baby and rants about disliking people talking about their children.



* FriendsRentControl: Averted and PlayedForDrama. Everyone has enough money for their apartment except Frances and Frances is always struggling just to get by.



* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Deconstructed and subverted. Frances has a lot of classic tropes of the MPDG, such as a MotorMouth, impulsivity, and an [[StarvingArtist artistic dancer]], but she also has the ignored flaws of most MPDGS and she ends up lonely, rather than in a relationship, as a result of her behaviour.



* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Frances has a bad, bad habit of doing this whenever she's in a social situation.



* ReplacementGoldfish: Frances tries to turn Rachel, who has no interest in being this and nothing in common with her, into this for her old roommate and best friend Sophie.




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* TooMuchInformation: Frances also has a tendency to overshare with everyone, such as when she tells Caroline, who she's never met before, about her career woes.
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* InsistentTerminology: Frances isn't "messy", she's "busy".
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* ChildHater: Though not explicitly stated, Sophie is obviously one of these. One of her qualities for her and Frances' ideal life is to have no children. Later, she admits to thinking miscarriages are cool.
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* ShoutOut: It's tough to recognize just from the audio, but one of the movies Frances watches with Benji is ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel The 400 Blows]]'', another DeliberatelyMonochrome SliceOfLife movie.

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* ShoutOut: It's tough to recognize just from the audio, but one of the movies Frances watches with Benji is ''[[Film/TheAdventuresOfAntoineDoinel The 400 Blows]]'', ''Film/The400Blows'', another DeliberatelyMonochrome SliceOfLife movie.
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* Adorkable: Frances is a deconstruction of this. She's quirky and means well, but this generally makes it difficult for her to grow up and interact with others her age.

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* Adorkable: {{Adorkable}}: Frances is a deconstruction of this. She's quirky and means well, but this generally makes it difficult for her to grow up and interact with others her age.
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* Adorkable: Frances is a deconstruction of this. She's quirky and means well, but this generally makes it difficult for her to grow up and interact with others her age.
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''Frances Ha'' is a 2012 indie {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/NoahBaumbach, starring Greta Gerwig.

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''Frances Ha'' is a 2012 indie {{Dramedy}} film directed by Creator/NoahBaumbach, starring Greta Gerwig.(and co-written by) Creator/GretaGerwig.

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