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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: First, Larry talks Warren down from jumping off a bridge (see SuicideAsComedy, above). Later in the film, Warren returns the favor to Larry after Larry is despondent over Iris's marriage.
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''The Lonely Guy'' is a 1984 American RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/ArthurHiller and starring Creator/SteveMartin.
Larry Hubbard (Martin) had a very bad day. He breaks up with his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man, and she kicks him out of the apartment. Upset and confused, he bumps into a pathetic-looking guy named Warren (played by Charles Grodin), who asks if he is a "first-time lonely guy".
And thus Larry is introduced to the world of "lonely guys", a subculture of men who share tips and coping strategies for surviving the single life. With Warren's advice and friendship, Larry begins to reassemble his life, navigate the completely absurd situations he frequently encounters (or creates), and even pursue a new love interest: the beautiful, cheerful, and six-times-divorced Iris (played by Judith Ivey).
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''The Lonely Guy'' is a 1984 American RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/ArthurHiller and starring Creator/SteveMartin.
Larry Hubbard (Martin) had a very bad day. He breaks up with his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man, and she kicks him out of the apartment. Upset and confused, he bumps into a pathetic-looking guy named Warren (played by Charles Grodin), who asks if he is a "first-time lonely guy".
And thus Larry is introduced to the world of "lonely guys", a subculture of men who share tips and coping strategies for surviving the single life. With Warren's advice and friendship, Larry begins to reassemble his life, navigate the completely absurd situations he frequently encounters (or creates), and even pursue a new love interest: the beautiful, cheerful, and six-times-divorced Iris (played by Judith Ivey).
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''The Lonely Guy'' is a 1984 American RomanticComedy film directed by Creator/ArthurHiller and starring
The film starts with Larry Hubbard (Martin)
And thus Larry is introduced to the world of "lonely guys", a subculture of men who share tips and coping strategies for surviving the single life. With Warren's advice and friendship, Larry begins to reassemble his life, navigate the completely absurd situations he frequently encounters (or creates), and even pursue a new love interest: the beautiful, cheerful, and six-times-divorced Iris
[[TheFilmOfTheBook Based on]] the 1978 humor book ''The Lonely Guy's Book of Life'' by Bruce Jay Freidman. Creator/NeilSimon did the screenplay adaptation along with ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' co-creators Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels.
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A 1984 romantic comedy starring Creator/SteveMartin.
The movie starts with our protagonist, Larry Hubbard (Martin), having a very bad day. He breaks up with his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man, and she kicks him out of the apartment. Upset and confused, he bumps into a pathetic-looking guy named Warren (played by Charles Grodin), who asks if he is a "first-time lonely guy".
The movie starts with our protagonist, Larry Hubbard (Martin), having a very bad day. He breaks up with his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man, and she kicks him out of the apartment. Upset and confused, he bumps into a pathetic-looking guy named Warren (played by Charles Grodin), who asks if he is a "first-time lonely guy".
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Larry tries to ask his rental agent out, the reply he gets is "I'm a man." It's unclear if this is the truth, or just a lie to stop him from ever asking again. [[note]]For the record, the rental agent is played by actress Julie Payne. [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668372/ IMDB page]][[/note]]
* YourCheatingHeart: At the start of the movie, Larry comes home to find his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man. And that wasn't the only "other man"; she was sleeping with Larry's friend Jack too.
* YourCheatingHeart: At the start of the movie, Larry comes home to find his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man. And that wasn't the only "other man"; she was sleeping with Larry's friend Jack too.
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* YourCheatingHeart: At the start of the movie, Larry comes home to find his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man. And that wasn't the only "other man"; she was sleeping with Larry's friend Jack too.page]][[/note]]
* YourCheatingHeart: At the start of the movie, Larry comes home to find his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man. And that wasn't the only "other man"; she was sleeping with Larry's friend Jack too.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Larry tries to ask his female-looking rental agent out, the reply he gets is "I'm a man." It's unclear if this is the truth, or just a lie to stop him from ever asking again. [[note]]For the record, the rental agent is played by actress Julie Payne. [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668372/ IMDB page]][[/note]]
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Larry decides to give up on his romance novel and write ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'' instead. Oddly, this is well before the end of the movie.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: InUniverse, Larry decides to give up on his novel and write ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'' instead.
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* UnsettlingGenderReveal: When Larry tries to ask his female-looking rental agent out, the reply he gets is "I'm a man." Though there's a slim chance that It's unclear if this is the truth, or just a lie to stop him from ever asking again. [[note]]For the record, the rental agent is played by actress Julie Payne. [[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668372/ IMDB page]][[/note]]
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* MythologyGag: Larry tries apologizing by reciting ''O Pointy Bird'', the poem Martin's character read to Dolores in ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains''.
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Larry and Warren have a few. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RjeEYTLkbE One is about hair]]; Warren starts off by asking why people with more hair than him don't get charged more for haircuts, and then the conversation drifts a bit...
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Larry and Warren have a few. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RjeEYTLkbE One is about hair]]; Warren starts off by asking why people with more hair than him don't get charged more for haircuts, haircuts[[note]]Stylists now charge more for longer hair[[/note]], and then the conversation drifts a bit...
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** Dr. Joyce Brothers appears as a guest on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', and then later in bed with Larry and the Schneider twins.
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** Dr. Joyce Brothers appears as a guest on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', and then later in bed with Larry and the Schneider twins. [[spoiler:She becomes Warren's girlfriend in the end.]]
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* MistakenFromBehind: [[spoiler:When Larry bursts into what he ''thinks'' is Iris's wedding and begs for her to reconsider (see SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace, above), he and the audience don't see that the bride isn't Iris until she turns around.]]
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* MistakenFromBehind: [[spoiler:When Larry bursts into what he ''thinks'' is Iris's wedding and begs for her to reconsider (see SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace, above), below), he and the audience don't see that the bride isn't Iris until she turns around.]]
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A 1984 romantic comedy starring Creator/SteveMartin.
The movie starts with our protagonist, Larry Hubbard (Martin), having a very bad day. He breaks up with his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man, and she kicks him out of the apartment. Upset and confused, he bumps into a pathetic-looking guy named Warren (played by Charles Grodin), who asks if he is a "first-time lonely guy".
And thus Larry is introduced to the world of "lonely guys", a subculture of men who share tips and coping strategies for surviving the single life. With Warren's advice and friendship, Larry begins to reassemble his life, navigate the completely absurd situations he frequently encounters (or creates), and even pursue a new love interest, the beautiful, cheerful, and six-times-divorced Iris (played by Judith Ivey).
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BlackComedy: Aside from the SuicideAsComedy listed below, we have Larry's vision of his possible future lonely death. His unmourned corpse is stuffed into a trash can on the sidewalk and then thrown into the back of a garbage truck.
* ButtMonkey: Warren.
* TheCameo:
** Creator/MervGriffin hosts his eponymous TalkShow, ''The Merv Griffin Show''.
** Dr. Joyce Brothers appears as a guest on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', and then later in bed with Larry and the Schneider twins.
* CardboardPal: Warren fills his apartment with black-and-white celebrity cut-outs to stave off loneliness. Larry follows suit, and a lonely cop asks where he can get some.
* ExplodingCalendar: Subverted. When Larry begins writing ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'', the pages begin to fly off his calendar...because he left the window open, and the wind is blowing.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Iris has been married ''six'' times. She genuinely feels a strong attraction to Larry, but she is so terrified of getting hurt ''again'' that she can't commit to an actual relationship.
* LonelyBachelorPad: Larry's new place is definitely this at first. Then Warren offers some tips on making it less lonely (which boils down to adding lot of ferns and cardboard cutouts of celebrities). It's debatable whether it works or not.
* MillsAndBoonProse: Larry's attempt to write a romance novel.
-->'''Larry:''' ''[reading aloud]'' "Soon the primal fire began to burn in Lady Hookstraten's body. Her hips twitched and trembled as each fireball from Oliver's powerful cannon erupted like molten lava into the quivering mouth of her ever-fluttering love purse."
* MistakenFromBehind: [[spoiler:When Larry bursts into what he ''thinks'' is Iris's wedding and begs for her to reconsider (see SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace, above), he and the audience don't see that the bride isn't Iris until she turns around.]]
* MotorMouth: Larry's landlord says everything very rapidly.
* ReallyGetsAround: Danielle. Within 15 minutes of kicking Larry out of the apartment, she leaves the ''original'' guy she was cheating on him with for ''an entire rock band''.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Larry and Warren have a few. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RjeEYTLkbE One is about hair]]; Warren starts off by asking why people with more hair than him don't get charged more for haircuts, and then the conversation drifts a bit...
-->'''Larry:''' You know, the guys who always keep their hair are the guys who have no use for it at all, they're not trying to impress anybody.
-->'''Warren:''' Who's that?
-->'''Larry:''' Like bums. You ever seen a bald bum? They always have a beautiful head of hair.
* ShoutOut: Larry shows up to a costume party dressed as Creator/{{Charlie Chaplin}}'s Tramp.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Larry bursts into Iris's wedding to tell her that she shouldn't be marrying the guy. [[spoiler:He got the wrong church, though the bride takes his advice anyway.]]
* SuicideAsComedy: Warren is about to jump off a bridge, and Larry has to talk him down. And he is absolutely ''terrible'' at it. (When asked to name one thing Warren has to live for, the best he can come up with is "Not dying".) Meanwhile, ''other'' suicidal people are jumping off and plopping into the water at a truly ridiculous rate.
-->'''Suicidal guy:''' Excuse me. Are you using this railing?
-->'''Warren:''' No.
-->'''Suicidal guy:''' Thank you.
-->'''Warren:''' You're welcome.
-->''[Guy jumps off the railing screaming]''
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: After his book takes off and he becomes famous, we see Larry in bed with "the Schneider twins"...and Dr. Joyce Brothers for good measure.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: InUniverse, Larry decides to give up on his novel and write ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'' instead.
* YourCheatingHeart: At the start of the movie, Larry comes home to find his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man. And that wasn't the only "other man"; she was sleeping with Larry's friend Jack too.
The movie starts with our protagonist, Larry Hubbard (Martin), having a very bad day. He breaks up with his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man, and she kicks him out of the apartment. Upset and confused, he bumps into a pathetic-looking guy named Warren (played by Charles Grodin), who asks if he is a "first-time lonely guy".
And thus Larry is introduced to the world of "lonely guys", a subculture of men who share tips and coping strategies for surviving the single life. With Warren's advice and friendship, Larry begins to reassemble his life, navigate the completely absurd situations he frequently encounters (or creates), and even pursue a new love interest, the beautiful, cheerful, and six-times-divorced Iris (played by Judith Ivey).
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!!This film provides examples of:
* BlackComedy: Aside from the SuicideAsComedy listed below, we have Larry's vision of his possible future lonely death. His unmourned corpse is stuffed into a trash can on the sidewalk and then thrown into the back of a garbage truck.
* ButtMonkey: Warren.
* TheCameo:
** Creator/MervGriffin hosts his eponymous TalkShow, ''The Merv Griffin Show''.
** Dr. Joyce Brothers appears as a guest on ''The Merv Griffin Show'', and then later in bed with Larry and the Schneider twins.
* CardboardPal: Warren fills his apartment with black-and-white celebrity cut-outs to stave off loneliness. Larry follows suit, and a lonely cop asks where he can get some.
* ExplodingCalendar: Subverted. When Larry begins writing ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'', the pages begin to fly off his calendar...because he left the window open, and the wind is blowing.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Iris has been married ''six'' times. She genuinely feels a strong attraction to Larry, but she is so terrified of getting hurt ''again'' that she can't commit to an actual relationship.
* LonelyBachelorPad: Larry's new place is definitely this at first. Then Warren offers some tips on making it less lonely (which boils down to adding lot of ferns and cardboard cutouts of celebrities). It's debatable whether it works or not.
* MillsAndBoonProse: Larry's attempt to write a romance novel.
-->'''Larry:''' ''[reading aloud]'' "Soon the primal fire began to burn in Lady Hookstraten's body. Her hips twitched and trembled as each fireball from Oliver's powerful cannon erupted like molten lava into the quivering mouth of her ever-fluttering love purse."
* MistakenFromBehind: [[spoiler:When Larry bursts into what he ''thinks'' is Iris's wedding and begs for her to reconsider (see SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace, above), he and the audience don't see that the bride isn't Iris until she turns around.]]
* MotorMouth: Larry's landlord says everything very rapidly.
* ReallyGetsAround: Danielle. Within 15 minutes of kicking Larry out of the apartment, she leaves the ''original'' guy she was cheating on him with for ''an entire rock band''.
* SeinfeldianConversation: Larry and Warren have a few. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RjeEYTLkbE One is about hair]]; Warren starts off by asking why people with more hair than him don't get charged more for haircuts, and then the conversation drifts a bit...
-->'''Larry:''' You know, the guys who always keep their hair are the guys who have no use for it at all, they're not trying to impress anybody.
-->'''Warren:''' Who's that?
-->'''Larry:''' Like bums. You ever seen a bald bum? They always have a beautiful head of hair.
* ShoutOut: Larry shows up to a costume party dressed as Creator/{{Charlie Chaplin}}'s Tramp.
* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Larry bursts into Iris's wedding to tell her that she shouldn't be marrying the guy. [[spoiler:He got the wrong church, though the bride takes his advice anyway.]]
* SuicideAsComedy: Warren is about to jump off a bridge, and Larry has to talk him down. And he is absolutely ''terrible'' at it. (When asked to name one thing Warren has to live for, the best he can come up with is "Not dying".) Meanwhile, ''other'' suicidal people are jumping off and plopping into the water at a truly ridiculous rate.
-->'''Suicidal guy:''' Excuse me. Are you using this railing?
-->'''Warren:''' No.
-->'''Suicidal guy:''' Thank you.
-->'''Warren:''' You're welcome.
-->''[Guy jumps off the railing screaming]''
* TwinThreesomeFantasy: After his book takes off and he becomes famous, we see Larry in bed with "the Schneider twins"...and Dr. Joyce Brothers for good measure.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: InUniverse, Larry decides to give up on his novel and write ''A Guide for the Lonely Guy'' instead.
* YourCheatingHeart: At the start of the movie, Larry comes home to find his girlfriend Danielle in bed with another man. And that wasn't the only "other man"; she was sleeping with Larry's friend Jack too.
