History Film / Serena

* CoolPet: Serena's imported trained eagle.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: George.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the novel, Serena is killed years after the events of the plot by George's now grown son, Jacob. In the film, she commits suicide after her plans fail.]]

Has nothing to do with the [[FreewareGames freeware]] [[VideoGame/{{Serena}} adventure game]] of the same name.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Discussed during a presentation advocating conserving the Smoky Mountains. The national park advocates stress the importance of preserving American wildlife. George counters that the lumber industry provides[[TheGreatDepression much-needed]] jobs. The national park advocates counter that the lumber industry pays its workers next to nothing and pockets the profits for themselves. George counters that it's still more than what most employers pay, which is why there's a line 50+ long every time there's a job opening. The national park advocates counters that there are such frequent job openings due to the high mortality rate of the DangerousWorkplace. George counters that most Americans know the job is dangerous but are still proud to sign on. Most of the "average American workers" in the room cheer. It's hard to tell who is truly in the right, if at all.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Takes place in the Smoky Mountains, but was shot in the Czech Republic.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: See ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney below.

Directed by Danish director Susanne Bier, ''Serena'' is a 2014 PeriodPiece drama based on Ron Rash's [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel of the same name]]-- an infamously TroubledProduction. Set in the Smoky Mountains during TheGreatDepression, it is about George Pemberton (played by Creator/BradleyCooper), a timber company owner who meets a mysterious blonde woman, Serena (Creator/JenniferLawrence). They marry and she comes with him to live at the site of his company, where she quickly joins him in taking charge of the work. While George deals with plans by the government to turn the woods into a national park, Serena becomes pregnant with his child. Then things go downhill fast...

* OscarBait: A bleak period piece drama set during The Great Depression starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, fresh from [[Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook another Oscar-winning success]], as a morally dubious timber tycoon and his increasingly unstable wife. Averted due to the many [[TroubledProduction issues during the making of the film]].

* TroubledProduction

* BlondesAreEvil: [[spoiler:Serena, after her descent into madness.]]

Directed by Danish director Susanne Bier, ''Serena'' is a 2014 PeriodPiece drama based on Ron Rash's [[TheFilmOfTheBook novel of the same name]]. Set in the Smoky Mountains during TheGreatDepression, it is about George Pemberton (played by Creator/BradleyCooper), a timber company owner who meets a mysterious blonde woman, Serena (Creator/JenniferLawrence). They marry and she comes with him to live at the site of his company, where she quickly joins him in taking charge of the work. While George deals with plans by the government to turn the woods into a national park, Serena becomes pregnant with his child. Then things go downhill fast...

* OscarBait: A bleak period piece drama set during The Great Depression starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, fresh from [[Film/SilverLiningsPlaybook another Oscar-winning success]], as a morally dubious timber tycoon and his increasingly unstable wife.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy / LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:After losing her and George's child in a miscarriage, Serena goes to a very dark place and tries to take away Rachel's child to replace it.]]

* HuntingAccident: [[spoiler:Buchanan's death at the hands of George.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: George's company is shown and mentioned to be bribing senators and other officials to get their way.

* SceneryPorn: The film features lots of elegant shots of the woods and period sets

* DangerousWorkplace: As the national park point out, the timber camp is a pretty unsafe place to work. Over the course of the film, one worker is pinned down by a fallen log, another is bitten by a snake and loses his foot, [[spoiler:Galloway loses a hand to an unfortunate axe swing.]]

* OscarBait: A bleak period piece drama set during The Great Depression starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, fresh from another Oscar-winning success, as a morally dubious timber tycoon and his increasingly unstable wife.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Facing criminal charges, George is killed by a mountain cougar he has been tracking since the start of the film. Meanwhile, Serenam having lost the man she loved and all of her dreams, commits suicide by burning down the cabin she's in.]] [[BittersweetEnding On the upside]], [[spoiler:George's son Jacob is on his way with his mother to a better life.]]

* NervesOfSteel: When Galloway loses a hand in an accident, Serena springs right into action and improvises a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

* OscarBait