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* MoralMyopia: [[spoiler:Once it is revealed that Sammy's real father is Josie's former teacher, the mine's lawyer calls the incident ''alleged rape'', whereupon Bobby also falsely testifies that the relationship was consensual. In what world can a relationship between a grown man and a teenage girl be not rape but consensual?]]
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* CatharsisFactor: After hearing of [[spoiler: Josie's backstory of being raped by her teacher]], it's rewarding to watch that same teacher getting strangled and punched by Josie's father Hank in the courtroom.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After hearing of [[spoiler: Josie's backstory of being raped by her teacher]], it's rewarding to watch that same teacher getting strangled and punched by Josie's father Hank in the courtroom.
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* PoisonousFriend: Peg hangs out with Josey and a lot of the others, but rarely contributes anything more than insulting them for trying to change things, and undermining the others confidence whenever they seem to consider doing so.
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* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: As Josie tells everyone in the courtroom what really happened and who was Sammy's father, flashbacks show how Josie became pregnant at 16. She was actually raped by one of her teachers]].
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* After a talk with Kyle and trying to understand his mother's side of things, Sammy listens to his mother Josey talk about when she was pregnant with him and she admitted that she never wanted him. She feared that every day that her belly got bigger, it would remind her of [[spoiler: the rape committed by her teacher]]. But for whatever reason, she never considered having an abortion. Though it's possible she grew to love her child regardless.
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: After a talk with Kyle and trying to understand his mother's side of things, Sammy listens to his mother Josey talk about when she was pregnant with him and she admitted that she never wanted him. She feared that every day that her belly got bigger, it would remind her of [[spoiler: the rape committed by her teacher]]. But for whatever reason, she never considered having an abortion. Though it's possible she grew to love her child regardless.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: After hearing of [[spoiler: Josie's backstory of being raped by her teacher]], it's rewarding to watch that same teacher getting strangled and punched by Josie's father Hank in the courtroom.
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* PedoHunt: Hank's appropriate reaction when he (and everyone else) learn in the courtroom that Josey [[spoiler: was actually raped at 16 by her teacher]]. He gets up from his seat, walks over and attacks the same teacher present.
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* DirtyCoward: Josey's high school boyfriend [[spoiler:witnessed her being raped by the teacher, but panicked and never told anyone, even when the whole town shamed her for having a baby out of wedlock]]. Lampshaded when Kyle refers to him as a "Yellow Ice" player in hockey compared to a "Red Ice" one who'd stay and fight.
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* DirtyCoward: Josey's high school boyfriend Bobby [[spoiler:witnessed her being raped by the teacher, but panicked and never told anyone, even when the whole town shamed her for having a baby out of wedlock]]. Lampshaded when Kyle refers to him as a "Yellow Ice" player in hockey compared to a "Red Ice" one who'd stay and fight.
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** When Josey's former teacher walks into the courtroom as a subpoenaed witness, Josey stutters her words and her facial expression change to a frightened reaction.
** The lawyer asking Josey who is Sammy's father. Then her teacher walks into the courtroom.
** When Josey's former teacher walks into the courtroom as a subpoenaed witness, Josey stutters her words and her facial expression change to a frightened reaction.
** The lawyer asking Josey who is Sammy's father. Then her teacher walks into the courtroom.
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* After a talk with Kyle and trying to understand his mother's side of things, Sammy listens to his mother Josey talk about when she was pregnant with him and she admitted that she never wanted him. She feared that every day that her belly got bigger, it would remind her of [[spoiler: the rape committed by her teacher]]. But for whatever reason, she never considered having an abortion. Though it's possible she grew to love her child regardless.
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* TheAllegedExpert: In a DeletedScene, the former big-city lawyer who is helping Josey with her sexual harassment suit reveals that he specializes in convincing people to accept settlements and has never argued a case before a judge before. [[DownplayedTrope He still wins the case.]]
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* JerkassRealization: If Hank didn't experience this when his wife moved out, fed up with his condiongin of the treatment of their daughter and the others, then he got it listening to her being verbally abused at the meeting.
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* JerkassRealization: If Hank didn't doesn't experience this when his wife moved moves out, fed up with his condiongin of condoning the treatment of their daughter and the others, then he got gets it listening to her Josey being verbally abused at the meeting.
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* PsychopathicManChild: Earl, one of the worst coworkers, who utterly remorselessly and gleefully gropes women, throws around cruel and vulgar taunts while chuckling smugly, gives Bobby and alibi for his near-rape of Josey with conspiratorial joviality, writes misogynistic graffiti everywhere, overturns the outhouse, paints the women restroom falls with excrement and masturbates on Cherry's uniform.
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* PsychopathicManChild: Earl, one of the worst coworkers, who utterly remorselessly and gleefully gropes women, throws around cruel and vulgar taunts while chuckling smugly, gives Bobby and an alibi for his near-rape of Josey with conspiratorial joviality, writes misogynistic graffiti everywhere, overturns the outhouse, paints the women restroom falls with excrement and masturbates on Cherry's uniform.
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* WorldOfJerkass: Aside from Joesy, Kyle, Bill and Glory, every other character is [[HateSink over the top unlikable.]]
