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

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* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses KellyMacdonald Creator/KellyMacdonald and ShirleyHenderson.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Jerry puts his gun down before challenging Lehiff to a fistfight. [[RevolversAreJustBetter Lehiff doesn't have this problem]].


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* OhCrap: Jerry, when Lehiff pulls a gun on him.
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** The girl Lehiff decks in the opening scene appears later with a broken nose.
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* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Jerry challenges Lehiff to a fistfight at the end, Lehiff accepts before [[CombatPragmatist pulling]] [[RevolversAreJustBetter a revolver]] on him.
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* 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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* HeyItsThatGuy! [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]] is a BrokenBird with a [[BeardOfSorrow Moustache of Sorrow]], and [[Film/BatmanBegins Jonathan Crane]] is dating her sister.
** And [[Franchise/StarTrek Chief O'Brien]] has joined the gardai.
** The girl Lehiff leaps over [[spoiler: after he's robbed the cafe]] is [[Film/InAmerica Ariel]].
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* YourCheatingHeart

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* YourCheatingHeartYourCheatingHeart
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* CowboyCop / OldFashionedCopper: Jerry Lynch

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* CowboyCop / OldFashionedCopper: OldFashionedCopper / RabidCop: Jerry Lynch
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** The girl Lehiff leaps over [[spoiler: after he's robbed the cafe]] is [[Film/InAmerica Ariel]].
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* VerbalTic: Mr. Henderson is fond of ending his sentences with "as they say in the States".

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* AllStarCast: Colm Meany, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murpy are he three main leads.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Jerry Lynch's policing style

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* AllStarCast: Colm Meany, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murpy Murphy are he the three main leads.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Jerry Lynch's policing stylestyle.



* CrossesTheLineTwice: Three times, really; the scene where Sally is finally coaxed into describing her traumatic relationship goes from disturbing to funny to Nightmare Fuel. [[spoiler:She was ChainedToABed and beaten... and then the guy [[ToiletHumour took a shit on her chest]]. And ''then'', he [[AndIMustScream ''left her there until she was found three days later]]''. ]]



* TheHeist: [[spoiler: So utterly failed that it barely even registers in he plot.]]

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* TheHeist: [[spoiler: So utterly failed that it barely even registers in he the plot.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy! [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]] is a BrokenBird with a [[BeardOfSorrow Moustache of Sorrow]], and [[BatmanBegins Jonathan Crane]] is dating her sister.

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* HeyItsThatGuy! [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]] is a BrokenBird with a [[BeardOfSorrow Moustache of Sorrow]], and [[BatmanBegins [[Film/BatmanBegins Jonathan Crane]] is dating her sister.
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** And [[StarTrek Chief O'Brien]] has joined the gardai.

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** And [[StarTrek [[Franchise/StarTrek Chief O'Brien]] has joined the gardai.
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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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* KleptomaniacHero: John, who stole ridiculous amounts of stuff from the supermarket in which he works. One time, he stole an entire crate of brown sauce. When he finds he can't get rid of it quickly enough, he starts putting it in his tea.
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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 brother.

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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 brother.ex boyfriend.

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



* SpellMyNameWithAnS: the film is called ''[=interMission=]''.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Three times, really; the scene where Sally is finally coaxed into describing her traumatic relationship goes from disturbing to funny to NightmareFuel. [[spoiler:She was ChainedToABed and beaten... and then the guy [[ToiletHumour took a shit on her chest]]. And ''then'', he [[AndIMustScream ''left her there until she was found three days later]]''. ]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Three times, really; the scene where Sally is finally coaxed into describing her traumatic relationship goes from disturbing to funny to NightmareFuel.Nightmare Fuel. [[spoiler:She was ChainedToABed and beaten... and then the guy [[ToiletHumour took a shit on her chest]]. And ''then'', he [[AndIMustScream ''left her there until she was found three days later]]''. ]]
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* SexualKarma: [[Oscar and Sally, [[TwiceShy the two shy ones]], find each other. John gets his girlfriend back when he admits that he cares about her. Sam gets back together with his wife, who's discovered she can use threats of physical violence to keep him in line.]] All together now - awwww.

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* SexualKarma: [[Oscar [[spoiler:Oscar and Sally, [[TwiceShy the two shy ones]], find each other. John gets his girlfriend back when he admits that he cares about her. Sam gets back together with his wife, who's discovered she can use threats of physical violence to keep him in line.]] All together now - awwww.
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* BeautyInversion: Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Shirley Henderson sports a moustache.

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



* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses Kelly [=Macdonald=] and Shirley Henderson.

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* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses Kelly [=Macdonald=] KellyMacdonald and Shirley Henderson.ShirleyHenderson.
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* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Alice

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* ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: AliceSally.
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* BeautyInversion: Everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Shirley Henderson sports a moustache.

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* BeautyInversion: Everybody's Except for [[ChristmasCake Deirdre [=O'Kane=]]] everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Shirley Henderson sports a moustache.



* ChristmasCake: Noeleen



* CrossesTheLineTwice: Three times, really; the scene where Sally is finally coaxed into describing her traumatic relationship goes from disturbing to funny to NightmareFuel. [[spoiler:She was ChainedToABed and beaten... and then the guy [[ToiletHumour took a shit on her chest]]. And ''then'', he [[AndIMustScream ''left her there until she was found three days later]]''. ]]



* CrossesTheLineTwice: Three times, really; the scene where Sally is finally coaxed into describing her traumatic relationship goes from disturbing to funny to NightmareFuel. [[spoiler:She was ChainedToABed and beaten... and then the guy [[ToiletHumour took a shit on her chest]]. And ''then'', he [[AndIMustScream ''left her there until she was found three days later]]''. ]]


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* FakeIrish: Deirdre and Sally are played by Scottish actresses Kelly [=Macdonald=] and Shirley Henderson.

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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler:Noeleen's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on her husband, in the middle of his being an accessory to a bank robbery, is funny as hell.]]

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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler:Noeleen's 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, robbery.]] Which is actually funny as hell.]]



* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:The married couple get back together at the end, despite the DomesticAbuse subtext to their new dynamic.]]



* SexualKarma: [[Oscar and Sally, [[TwiceShy the two shy ones]], find each other. John gets his girlfriend back when he admits that he cares about her. Sam gets back together with his wife, who's discovered she can use threats of physical violence to keep him in line.]] All together now - awwww.



* WouldNotHitAGirl: Shockingly averted [[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 floor. This is {{foreshadowing}} for his treatment of John's sister]]

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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Shockingly averted Both this and AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale are [[ZigZaggingTrope zigzagged]] all over the place. First, [[spoiler:in the opening scene. scene, Lehiff is charming a waitress when completely out of the blue he socks her in the jaw and knocks her to the floor. This ground.]] Later, John is {{foreshadowing}} for his treatment of John's sister]]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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* CrossesTheLineTwice: Three times, really; the scene where Sally is finally coaxed into describing her traumatic relationship goes from disturbing to funny to NightmareFuel. [[spoiler:She was ChainedToABed and beaten... and then the guy [[ToiletHumour took a shit on her chest]]. And ''then'', he [[AndIMustScream ''left her there until she was found three days later]]''. ]]
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* KingpinInHisGym: Jerry and his punching bag.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: the opening scene, which shows us that Lehiff is charming, [[spoiler:a thief, and not afraid to [[WouldNotHitAGirl Hit A Girl]].]]



* WouldNotHitAGirl: Shockingly averted [[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 floor.]]

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* WouldNotHitAGirl: Shockingly averted [[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 floor.]] This is {{foreshadowing}} for his treatment of John's sister]]

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Click A raucous story of the edit button 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 start 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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!!Tropes exemplified by
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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler:Noeleen's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on her husband, in the middle of his being an accessory to a bank robbery, is funny as hell.]]
* AllStarCast: Colm Meany, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murpy are he three main leads.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Jerry Lynch's policing style
* AttentionWhore: Jerry
* 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"
* BeautyInversion: Everybody's pretty scuzzy, and Shirley Henderson sports a moustache.
* BlackComedy
* BrokenBird: Sally
* CowboyCop / OldFashionedCopper: Jerry Lynch
* 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 brother.
* EpicFail: [[spoiler:The bank heist.]]
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Jerry's favourite style.
* TheHeist: [[spoiler: So utterly failed that it barely even registers in he plot.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy! [[HarryPotter Moaning Myrtle]] is a BrokenBird with a [[BeardOfSorrow Moustache of Sorrow]], and [[BatmanBegins Jonathan Crane]] is dating her sister.
* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:The married couple get back together at the end, despite the DomesticAbuse subtext to their
new page. dynamic.]]
* RealMenWearPink: Jerry: "I'm a thug. Basically my only humanising quality is my love for Celtic Mysticism."
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: tea with ''brown sauce'' is not the world's commonest DrinkOrder.
* SophisticatedAsHell: "That makes you, and I feel no compunction in saying this, a ''whore''"
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: the film is called ''[=interMission=]''.
* StupidCrooks
* TwiceShy: [[spoiler:Sally and Oscar.]]
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Shockingly averted [[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 floor.]]

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