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* DisproportionateRetribution: Per visa laws, Anna is effectively banned from the United States for overstaying her visa for a summer.
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* NoAntagonist: Aside from some obnoxious bureaucracy, there's no antagonist in the film.
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* {{Irony}}: Anna only overstays her visa because she and Jacob can't stand to be apart even for a short amount of time. As a consequence, they end up forcibly separated for months at a time.
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* InsecureLoveInterest: Jacob and Anna's relationship falls apart in the second act because they can't reconcile the fact that they both were involved with other people during their separation.
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* RaceForYourLove: In a twist on the usual concept, Jacob races through the airport for Anna... because she's been detained by customs.
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* CareerVersusMan: Another pull for Anna in London is that she's worked her way into her dream job as a journalism editor. [[spoiler:Given this is before permanently remote work became common, she has to give it up and search among lackluster jobs once she finally reunites with Jacob.]] No discussion is made about whether Jacob can run his own small business from London.
* FallingInLoveMontage: When Jacob and Anna first get together, there's a montage of them enjoying falling in love and going on their first dates. [[spoiler:They reminisce on these moments at the end, when it's clear their relationship might be beyond repair.]]
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* GoodTimesMontage: When Jacob and Anna first get together, there's a montage of them enjoying falling in love and going on their first dates. [[spoiler:They reminisce on them at the end, when it's clear their relationship might be beyond repair.]]
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* GoodTimesMontage: When Jacob and Anna first get together, there's a montage of them enjoying falling in love and going on their first dates. [[spoiler:They reminisce on them at the end, when it's clear their relationship might be beyond repair.]]InsecureLoveInterest:
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* LoveMakesYouStupid: The entire plot could have been avoided if Jacob and Anna had just respected the limitations of the student visa and waited to reunite.
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* PoorlyTimedConfession: On the very first night he meets her parents (who clearly aren't impressed by him), Simon proposes to Anna after six months of dating... right in front of them, unexpectedly. He isn't aware that Anna was recently offered a new visa, and can finally reunite with Jacob.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Jacob and Anna go to great lengths to get her a new visa, and in the end they can finally reunite as a couple, at the cost of everything: Anna loses her dream job, both of their other partners are left heartbroken, and in the end they've suffered through so much unhappiness and hurt that it may be unlikely they can ever get back to their old feelings.]]
* SecondActBreakup: After Jacob and Anna fail to appeal her visa ban, they quickly devolve into arguing and jealousy, leading them to break up and date different people.
* TemptingFate: During their vows, Jacob and Anna affirm that they will never allow anything to destroy their feelings for each other. They spend the rest of the film letting jealousy, insecurity, and distance erode their love and trust.
* WrongNameOutburst: Jacob accidentally calling Samantha by Anna's name is the first sign that he's clearly not over the latter.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Jacob and Anna go to great lengths to get her a new visa, and in the end they can finally reunite as a couple, at the cost of everything: Anna loses her dream job, both of their other partners are left heartbroken, and in the end they've suffered through so much unhappiness and hurt that it may be unlikely they can ever get back to their old feelings.]]
* SecondActBreakup: After Jacob and Anna fail to appeal her visa ban, they quickly devolve into arguing and jealousy, leading them to break up and date different people.
* TemptingFate: During their vows, Jacob and Anna affirm that they will never allow anything to destroy their feelings for each other. They spend the rest of the film letting jealousy, insecurity, and distance erode their love and trust.
* WrongNameOutburst: Jacob accidentally calling Samantha by Anna's name is the first sign that he's clearly not over the latter.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Zig-zagged. The leads find it very difficult to maintain a long-distance relationship, and it leads them to indiscretions with other people multiple times; however, they inevitably start missing the other and rekindle the relationship.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Anna's parents grill her about her relationship with Jacob on their first dinner together.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In the end Anna and Jacob have gotten can finally stay together once more, though as a married couple, but their relationship may be doomed due to both of them drifting apart, having been seeing other people while they were separated.leaves multiple broken hearts in its wake, and their reunion is awkward and strained, marred by all the hurts and indiscretions they've inflicted on each other.]]
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Anna's parents grill her about her relationship with Jacob on their first dinner together.
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* DisposableFiance: Both Samantha and Simon are cast aside when Anna and Jacob realize that they can't stay apart. Samantha is dumped ''twice.''
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** Jacob and Anna get married after only really spending a summer together and most of their time long-distance (and separated, at that). Subverted in that it's only so that she has an easier time getting a visa.
** Simon proposes to Anna after just six months of dating, though it's clear she hasn't moved on from Jacob.
* GoodTimesMontage: When Jacob and Anna first get together, there's a montage of them enjoying falling in love and going on their first dates. [[spoiler:They reminisce on them at the end, when it's clear their relationship might be beyond repair.]]
* FourthDateMarriage:
** Jacob and Anna get married after only really spending a summer together and most of their time long-distance (and separated, at that). Subverted in that it's only so that she has an easier time getting a visa.
** Simon proposes to Anna after just six months of dating, though it's clear she hasn't moved on from Jacob.
* GoodTimesMontage: When Jacob and Anna first get together, there's a montage of them enjoying falling in love and going on their first dates. [[spoiler:They reminisce on them at the end, when it's clear their relationship might be beyond repair.]]
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* MeetCute: Anna leaves a rambling note under Jacob's windshield wiper after giving him the eyes in class.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Anna and Jacob start seeing other people while waiting for Anna's ban to be lifted.
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* MaybeEverAfter: It's unclear at the end if Jacob and Anna will stay together.
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* LongDistanceRelationshipLongDistanceRelationship: Jacob and Anna first meet in the US while she's attending university there. However, when she's deported for overstaying her student visa, they struggle maintain to things while she's in the UK.
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Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. The film tells the story of Anna (Jones), a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, Jacob (Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she is denied re-entry into the United States after staying in the country longer than her student visa allows.
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Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. Written by Doremus and Ben York Jones, the film tells the story of Anna (Jones), a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, Jacob (Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she is denied re-entry into the United States after staying in the country longer than her student visa allows.
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Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. Written by Doremus and Ben York Jones, the The film tells the story of Anna (Jones), a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, Jacob (Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she is denied re-entry into the United States after staying in the country longer than her student visa allows.
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Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. Written by Doremus and Ben York Jones, the film tells the story of Anna (Jones), a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, Jacob (Yelchin), only to be separated from him when she is denied re-entry into the United States after staying in the country longer than her student visa allows.
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes:
*BittersweetEnding
*CitizenshipMarriage: Subverted. After Anna overstays her student visa and is banned from entering the U.S., she and Jacob get married in an attempt to get the ban lifted, but they still have to wait six months to see each other, and when the ban is finally lifted both Anna and Jacob have started seeing other people.
*LongDistanceRelationship
*YourCheatingHeart: Anna and Jacob start seeing other people while waiting for Anna's ban to be liefted
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes:
*BittersweetEnding
*CitizenshipMarriage: Subverted. After Anna overstays her student visa and is banned from entering the U.S., she and Jacob get married in an attempt to get the ban lifted, but they still have to wait six months to see each other, and when the ban is finally lifted both Anna and Jacob have started seeing other people.
*LongDistanceRelationship
*YourCheatingHeart: Anna and Jacob start seeing other people while waiting for Anna's ban to be liefted
