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* GirlsWithMustaches: As noted under BeardOfSorrow, Sally has a mustache as a result of not shaving due to depression, despite being female.
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* BeardOfSorrow: [[strike:Rare]] possibly ''unique'' female example - Sally, traumatised by an abusive relationship. "She's got a moustache! Whatever she was doing before, waxing, or shaving - she's stopped".

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* BeardOfSorrow: [[strike:Rare]] possibly ''unique'' female example - Sally, traumatised traumatized by an abusive relationship. "She's got a moustache! Whatever she was doing before, waxing, or shaving - she's stopped".
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''Intermission'' (styled as ''[=interMission=]'') is a raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town. There's the hapless romantic and his sex-starved best friend, the hotshot detective and the crook he's after, a young girl on the rebound with an older married man -- not to mention his deserted wife, an ambitious TV producer, an abandoned fiancée, a preteen trouble-maker -- all of whom are unaware of how their choices are profoundly intertwined. Add a botched robbery, some brown sauce, a woman's moustache, flying rocks and dancing single seniors and you have ''interMission.''

Stars Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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''Intermission'' (styled as ''[=interMission=]'') is a 2003 Irish crime comedy film directed by John Crowley, starring Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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is a raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town. There's the hapless romantic and his sex-starved best friend, the hotshot detective and the crook he's after, a young girl on the rebound with an older married man -- not to mention his deserted wife, an ambitious TV producer, an abandoned fiancée, a preteen trouble-maker -- all of whom are unaware of how their choices are profoundly intertwined. Add a botched robbery, some brown sauce, a woman's moustache, flying rocks and dancing single seniors and you have ''interMission.''

Stars Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.
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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Tea with ''brown sauce'' is not the world's commonest DrinkOrder. Deirdre realizes that the man holding her hostage must know her ex-boyfriend John because of this.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Tea with ''brown sauce'' is not the world's commonest DrinkOrder.drink order. Deirdre realizes that the man holding her hostage must know her ex-boyfriend John because of this.

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* DrinkOrder: Becomes a plot point. John takes to putting brown sauce ([[SeparatedByACommonLanguage think ketchup with malt vinegar and molasses]]) in his [[SpotOfTea tea]], and when his co-conspirators try it out of morbid curiosity they find it delicious. Later on Lehiff asks his hostage for one, and she realises he must know her ex-boyfriend.

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* BrickJoke: The kid who throws a rock at the bus, causing it to crash, does the same thing to the BadBoss in the ending.

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* BrickJoke: BrickJoke:
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The kid who throws a rock at the bus, causing it to crash, does the same thing to the BadBoss in the ending.
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Stars Colin Farrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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Stars Colin Farrell, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At the beginning, Lehiff seems like he's flirting with the cashier from the coffee shop. [[spoiler: When the last customer leaves, however, he reveals he's a thief, hits her, and robs the place]].


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* CountryMatters: As Lehiff is being chased by the police, he yells at them, "Come on, you hoopy cunts, youse!"

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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] and Creator/KellyMacdonald everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Creator/ShirleyHenderson sports a moustache.

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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] [=O'Kane=] and Creator/KellyMacdonald everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Creator/ShirleyHenderson sports a moustache.



* ChristmasCake: Noeleen.
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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Both this and DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale are [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagged]] all over the place. First, [[spoiler:in the opening scene, Lehiff is charming a waitress when completely out of the blue he socks her in the jaw and knocks her to the ground.]] Later, John is furious when he treats Dierdre the same way. And on the other hand, Noeleen [[spoiler:hitting Oscar causes him to walk out on her]], but this inspires her to take out her frustration on her husband, which is PlayedForLaughs.

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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Both this and DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale are [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagged]] all over the place. First, [[spoiler:in the opening scene, Lehiff is charming a waitress when completely out of the blue he socks her in the jaw and knocks her to the ground.]] Later, John is furious when he treats Dierdre Deirdre the same way. And on the other hand, Noeleen [[spoiler:hitting Oscar causes him to walk out on her]], but this inspires her to take out her frustration on her husband, which is PlayedForLaughs.
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**Inverted with Sally and her ex-boyfriend- his abuse of her is also played for laughs.
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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Creator/ShirleyHenderson sports a moustache.

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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] and Creator/KellyMacdonald everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Creator/ShirleyHenderson sports a moustache.
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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: At the start of the film, Oscar is so sexually frustrated that he isn't even able to masturbate.

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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: At the start of the film, Oscar is so sexually frustrated that he isn't even able to masturbate. He quickly overcomes this when he meets Noeleen though.
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* HyperlinkStory: In the ''Film/PulpFiction'' mold: numerous characters, several of whom are small-time criminals, whose plotlines overlap in surprising ways.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Jerry seems to think he's the protagonist in a ''Film/DirtyHarry''-style film. He really isn't.
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* AttentionWhore: Jerry

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* AttentionWhore: JerryJerry.
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Stars Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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Stars Creator/ColinFarrell, Colin Farrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.
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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Sam whips out his penis to show it to Deirdre, just as her mother and sister walk in the door. He puts it back in his trousers just in time, but when Deirdre's mother offers her hand he's unsure if he should shake it or not.
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Stars Creator/ColinFarrel, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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Stars Creator/ColinFarrel, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.
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Stars Creator/ColinFarrel, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/ColmMeaney, Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.
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** Just to emphasize the double standard, when Sally and Oscar get together, she asks him if he'd ever hit her and he insists that he wouldn't.

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* MayDecemberRomance: The sexually frustrated Oscar is urged to seek out older women, and begins a relationship with Noeleen.

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* MayDecemberRomance: The sexually frustrated Oscar is urged MayDecemberRomance:
** Near the beginning of the film, Sam leaves his wife Noeleen
to seek out older women, and begins pursue a relationship with Noeleen.Deirdre, who is significantly younger than him.
** Noeleen responds in kind by entering into a relationship with Oscar, likewise much younger than her.

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* TheLoinsSleepTonight: At the start of the film, Oscar is so sexually frustrated that he isn't even able to masturbate.
* MayDecemberRomance: The sexually frustrated Oscar is urged to seek out older women, and begins a relationship with Noeleen.



* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Sally.

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* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Sally. To be expected considering the traumatic experience she had.
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* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by [[{{Scotireland Scottish]] actresses Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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Three stars does not an All-Star Cast make.


A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town. There's the hapless romantic and his sex-starved best friend, the hotshot detective and the crook he's after, a young girl on the rebound with an older married man -- not to mention his deserted wife, an ambitious TV producer, an abandoned fiancée, a preteen trouble-maker -- all of whom are unaware of how their choices are profoundly intertwined. Add a botched robbery, some brown sauce, a woman's moustache, flying rocks and dancing single seniors and you have ''interMission.''

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A ''Intermission'' (styled as ''[=interMission=]'') is a raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town. There's the hapless romantic and his sex-starved best friend, the hotshot detective and the crook he's after, a young girl on the rebound with an older married man -- not to mention his deserted wife, an ambitious TV producer, an abandoned fiancée, a preteen trouble-maker -- all of whom are unaware of how their choices are profoundly intertwined. Add a botched robbery, some brown sauce, a woman's moustache, flying rocks and dancing single seniors and you have ''interMission.''



* AllStarCast: Colm Meany, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy are the three main leads.



* BadBoss
* BeardOfSorrow: [[strike:Rare]] possibly ''unique'' female example - Sally, traumatised by an abusive relationship. "She's got a moustache! Whatever she was doing before, waxing, or shaving - she's stopped"

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* BadBoss
BadBoss: John and Oscar's boss in the supermarket they work in.
* BeardOfSorrow: [[strike:Rare]] possibly ''unique'' female example - Sally, traumatised by an abusive relationship. "She's got a moustache! Whatever she was doing before, waxing, or shaving - she's stopped"stopped".



* BlackComedy

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* BlackComedyBlackComedy: This is the sort of film where a woman being exploited by her boyfriend, who then ties her up and defecates on her, is half-PlayedForLaughs.



* BrokenBird: Sally
* ChristmasCake: Noeleen
* CowboyCop / OldFashionedCopper / RabidCop: Jerry Lynch
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted when [[spoiler:Oscar walks out on Noeleen after she gets too rough in bed.]] Then played straight after this steels her to [[spoiler: dish out a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on her husband, in the middle of his being an accessory to a bank robbery.]] Which is actually funny as hell.
* TheDocumentary: ''On The Streets With Jerry Lynch''
* DrinkOrder: Becomes a plot point. John takes to putting brown sauce ([[SeparatedByACommonLanguage think ketchup with malt vinegar and molasses]]) in his [[SpotOfTea tea]], and when his co-conspirators try it out of morbid curiosity they find it delicious. Later on Lehiff asks his hostage for one, and she realises he must know her ex boyfriend.

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* BrokenBird: Sally
Sally. She recovers in the end.
* ChristmasCake: Noeleen
Noeleen.
* CowboyCop / OldFashionedCopper / RabidCop: Jerry Lynch
Lynch.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted when [[spoiler:Oscar walks out on Noeleen after she gets too rough in bed.]] Then played straight after this steels her to [[spoiler: dish out a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on her husband, in the middle of his being an accessory to a bank robbery.]] Which TheStinger at the end of the film shows them back together, with her openly assaulting in order to keep him in line - and this is actually funny as hell.
played for laughs. Just imagine if the film had been about a man beating up his unfaithful wife and then physically intimidating her once they're back together.
* TheDocumentary: In-universe, ''On The Streets With Jerry Lynch''
Lynch''.
* DrinkOrder: Becomes a plot point. John takes to putting brown sauce ([[SeparatedByACommonLanguage think ketchup with malt vinegar and molasses]]) in his [[SpotOfTea tea]], and when his co-conspirators try it out of morbid curiosity they find it delicious. Later on Lehiff asks his hostage for one, and she realises he must know her ex boyfriend.ex-boyfriend.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: the opening scene, which shows us that Lehiff is charming, [[spoiler:a thief, and not afraid to [[WouldNotHitAGirl Hit A Girl]].]]
* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: the The opening scene, which shows us that Lehiff is charming, [[spoiler:a thief, and not afraid to [[WouldNotHitAGirl Hit A Girl]].]]
* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish [[{{Scotireland Scottish]] actresses Creator/KellyMacdonald and Creator/ShirleyHenderson.



* HumiliationConga: Sally. Her ex chained her to a bed, ''took a shit on her'' and left her for several days. No wonder she's so traumatised,

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* HumiliationConga: Sally. Her ex stole all her money, chained her to a bed, ''took a shit on her'' and left her for several days. No wonder she's so traumatised,traumatised.



* MyNaymeIs: the film is called ''[=interMission=]''. If anyone can figure out how to make that work as a page title, go to it.



* RealMenWearPink: Jerry: "I'm a thug. Basically my only humanising quality is my love for Celtic Mysticism."

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* RealMenWearPink: Jerry: "I'm a thug. Basically my only humanising quality is my love for Celtic Mysticism.mysticism."



* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: tea with ''brown sauce'' is not the world's commonest DrinkOrder.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: tea Tea with ''brown sauce'' is not the world's commonest DrinkOrder.DrinkOrder. Deirdre realizes that the man holding her hostage must know her ex-boyfriend John because of this.



* StupidCrooks

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* StupidCrooksStupidCrooks: Just about every criminal in this film is of the bumbling kind.



* YourCheatingHeart

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* %%* YourCheatingHeart
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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] everybody's pretty scuzzy, and ShirleyHenderson sports a moustache.

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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] everybody's pretty scuzzy, and ShirleyHenderson Creator/ShirleyHenderson sports a moustache.



* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses Creator/KellyMacdonald and ShirleyHenderson.

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* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses Creator/KellyMacdonald and ShirleyHenderson.Creator/ShirleyHenderson.
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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Both this and AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale are [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagged]] all over the place. First, [[spoiler:in the opening scene, Lehiff is charming a waitress when completely out of the blue he socks her in the jaw and knocks her to the ground.]] Later, John is furious when he treats Dierdre the same way. And on the other hand, Noeleen [[spoiler:hitting Oscar causes him to walk out on her]], but this inspires her to take out her frustration on her husband, which is PlayedForLaughs.

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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Both this and AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale are [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagged]] all over the place. First, [[spoiler:in the opening scene, Lehiff is charming a waitress when completely out of the blue he socks her in the jaw and knocks her to the ground.]] Later, John is furious when he treats Dierdre the same way. And on the other hand, Noeleen [[spoiler:hitting Oscar causes him to walk out on her]], but this inspires her to take out her frustration on her husband, which is PlayedForLaughs.

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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted when [[spoiler:Oscar walks out on Noeleen after she gets too rough in bed.]] Then played straight after this steels her to [[spoiler: dish out a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on her husband, in the middle of his being an accessory to a bank robbery.]] Which is actually funny as hell.



* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Averted when [[spoiler:Oscar walks out on Noeleen after she gets too rough in bed.]] Then played straight after this steels her to [[spoiler: dish out a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on her husband, in the middle of his being an accessory to a bank robbery.]] Which is actually funny as hell.

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