History Film / ItsADisaster

* BloodFromTheMouth: From Gordon when he and Jenny show up on the doorstep.

* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: The couples are too busy bickering to notice the situation outside or even think there's anything strange about the power going out until Gordon shows up in his [=HazMat=] suit asking for batteries.

Tracy (Creator/JuliaStiles) is taking her new boyfriend Glen (Creator/DavidCross) to the "Couples Brunch" that her friends have held weekly for years. Amidst Glen's awkwardness of meeting new people and getting to know them a neighbor comes by in a [=HazMat=] suit, saying a horrible attack of the United States is underway and they all have to stay inside.

''It's a Disaster!'' is a 2012 film.

-->'''Glen''' returning from the toilet: Oh hey, I think the power's out.

* DrowningMySorrows: Multiple times. Firstly, Pete is knocking back the whisky as Glen and Tracy arrive as he's about to announce his impending divorce to the group. [spoiler: When the disaster occurs, Hedy quickly figures out they have next to no chance of survival and raids the drinks cabinet and starts cooking up some homemade drugs. The film ends with the group failing to drink their poisoned wine]].

* CrazyPrepared: Hal, the neighbor, owns a HAZMAT suit.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Glen works at a school named after a saint, meaning his decent into Biblical apocalypse was not out of nowhere.]]
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: As noted above, the 1812 Overture scores the opening credits. The first shot is of Glen turning off the stereo of the car, prompting a complaint from Lexi for not letting the song finish.

[[quoteright:224:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/its-a-disaster-poster-artwork_3128.jpg]]''It's a Disaster!'' is a 2012 film.

Tracy (Main/JuliaStiles) is taking her new boyfriend Glen (Creator/DavidCross) to the "Couples Brunch" that her friends have held weekly for years. Amidst Glen's awkwardness of meeting new people and getting to know them a neighbor comes by in a [=HazMat=] suit, saying a horrible attack of the United States is underway and they all have to stay inside.

!This film provides examples of the following tropes:

* WorldLimitedToThePlot: While there are occasional references to the larger world, folks are primarily concerned with everything in the house. Justified, since they're a pretty self-involved bunch to begin with.

* WorldLimitedToThePlot: While there are occasional references to the larger world, folks are primarily concerned with everything in the house.

* NoAntagonist: The story is the characters, not any BigBad in particular.

* CaptainOblivious: Everyone early on has a little bit of this, too wrapped up in couples brunch and not connecting the lack of internet/phone/television to anything odd.

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* NothingIsScarier: When the auto dialer calls from India, he is asked to turn on the TV to tell them what is going on. The guy merely is absolutely stunned by what he sees, but he doesn't tell the protagonists - leaving them and the audiences imaginations to run wild.

* ShoutOut: The the Emergency Broadcast System starts broadcasting numbers, Lexi exclaims "We're in ''Series/{{Lost}}''!"

* ConspiracyTheorist: Shane

* NoEnding: [[spoiler: We leave our protagonists trying to commit suicide.]]
* RedShirt: [[spoiler: Jenny and Gordon, who show up late and to prove that the danger is indeed real.]]

* ShoutOut: The the Emergency Broadcast System starts broadcasting numbers, Lexi exclaims "We're in ''Series/{{Lost}}''!"

* ShoutOut: The the Emergency Broadcast System starts broadcasting numbers, Lexi exclaims "We're in Series/{{Lost}}!"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spiler: Glen works at a school named after a saint, meaning his decent into Biblical apocalypse was not out of nowhere.]]

Tracy is taking her new boyfriend Glen to the "Couples Brunch" that her friends have held weekly for years. Amidst Glen's awkwardness of meeting new people and getting to know them a neighbor comes by in a [=HazMat=] suit, saying a horrible attack of the United States is underway and they all have to stay inside.

''It's a Disaster!'' is a 2012 film.

Tracy is taking her new boyfriend Glen to the "Couples Brunch" that her friends have held weekly for years. Amidst Glen's awkwardness of meeting new people and getting to know them a neighbor comes by in a HazMat suit, saying a horrible attack of the United States is underway and they all have to stay inside.