History Film / TwentySevenDresses

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone knows how Jane feels about George. Except George, who's completely ObliviousToLove.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Tess, especially when she becomes engaged to George and asks Jane for help on the wedding planning. Extra points for later making the article fiasco all about herself, this despite apparently only ever getting a one sentence mention wheras Jane gets details from her personal life spread all over the front page of the newspaper.

* HumiliationConga: The speech and slideshow Jane delivers at Tess and George's rehearsal dinner is one that Jane herself deliberately sets up for Tess: the pictures are not only extremely unflattering, they reveal all of the lies that Tess has told to win George over, ''in front of an entire hall full of people.''

* StalkerWithACrush: Downplayed with Kevin.

-->'''Jane:''' It's like finding out my favorite love song was written about a sandwich...

* ItsAllAboutMe: Tess, especially when she becomes engaged to George and asks Jane for help on the wedding planning.

* IHaveNoSon: A sibling example. After Jane discovers that Tess had cut up their mother's wedding dress to make more appealing, Jane tells her she's not her sister anymore for what she done and storms out.

--> '''Jane''': That was yesterday. Today you're just some bitch who broke my heart and cut up my mother's wedding dress!

* UnrequitedLoveSwitchero: At first Kevin is interested in Jane but she rejects him because she loves George. After a falling out with Kevin and realizing she has no sparks with George, she realizes that she has feelings for Kevin and tracks him down to tell him how she feels.

* MoodWhiplash: A gradual variation. Jane's slideshow for Tess and George at the rehearsal dinner starts out as a laughable show of how different the two may be (young George loving animals while young Tess holds a cat upside down). But as it progresses, it becomes more and more clear this is a [[SarcasmMode passive aggressive]] way of exposing how [[LiarRevealed dishonest]] Tess has been to George about who she is. And the laughter simply [[DudeNotFunny dries up]].

* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Jane delivers one to Kevin at a fan's wedding on a boat. Luckily, Kevin reciprocates.

* UnfortunateImplications: Invoked in-universe by Jane. George has an adopted Latino son named Pedro, and at one point, Tess pays him to clean her apartment for her. During the speech/slideshow at the rehearsal dinner, Jane uses the information and a picture of the deed in question to deliberately suggest that Tess is racist for exploiting a Latino person for cleaning services.

* WhatTheHellHero: Casey calls out Jane on publicly taking revenge on Tess by

* RageBreakingPoint: Jane's personality and upbringing are the reasons she can stay so calm throughout the whole movie, even when she's grinding her teeth to respond, but when [[spoiler:she finds out that Tess cut up their deceased mother's wedding dress to make it more "modern"]] she finally [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech cracks]].

'''Jane:'’' I’ve been to ''three''.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once Jane's finished showing the humiliating slideshow of Tess at the rehearsal dinner and giving a mocking speech that exposes all of the lies Tess has told, Casey approaches and tells her that even ''she'' thinks this was wrong. It's even lampshaded: Casey points out that her "moral compass doesn't exactly point north," [[EveryoneHadStandards so if she has a problem with Jane's actions, they must be bad.]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once Jane's finished showing the humiliating slideshow of Tess at the rehearsal dinner and giving a mocking speech that exposes all of the lies Tess has told, Casey approaches and tells her that even ''she'' thinks this was wrong. It's even lampshaded: Casey points out that her "moral compass doesn't exactly point north," so if she has a problem with Jane's actions, they must be bad.

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* FreudianExcuse: When Jane was a child, an aunt was in a panic because something went wrong with her wedding dress just before she had to walk down the aisle. Little Jane devised a solution, and her aunt not only praised her effusively, but even called her the wedding's hero. Jane herself explains that this was the moment that she realized she had a knack for wedding planning, and that she loved the joy her help could bring to others.

* IMissMom: Even though they were quite young when their mother passed away (Jane was eight and Tess was several years younger), her loss is implied to be a huge factor in Jane's personality, a cause of sadness in the family (especially for their father), and a significant contributor to several plot points.

* MissingMom: Jane and Tess's mom died when they were young.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone knows how Jane feels about George.
** Except George, who's completely ObliviousToLove.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Jane reveals the truth about Tess at the rehearsal dinner and destroys the wedding, Casey, of all people, approaches her and questions why she did it. Jane tries to defend herself by saying that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo someone had to reveal the truth]], but Casey points out that all Jane ''really'' did was vent every bit of frustration she's ever felt all at once in a public setting, and that if she had done the right thing, she would feel better. Then comes the question: "Do you feel better?" The answer is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone a very hard "no."]]

* ExactWords: Tess, in full Bridezilla mode, writes the maid of honor speech she wants Jane to give at the rehearsal dinner for her, and tells her not to change a word. Sure enough, Jane delivers the exact speech that Tess wrote...but she pairs the lines with embarrassing photographs and reads the whole in a mocking way, which makes Tess look like a liar and complete fool.

* FreudianExcuse: When Jane was a child, an aunt was in a panic because something went wrong with her dress just before she had to walk down the aisle. Little Jane devised a solution, and her aunt not only praised her effusively, but even called her the wedding's hero. Jane herself explains that this was the moment that she realized she had a knack for wedding planning, and that she loved the joy her help could bring to others.

* IGaveMyWord: Jane claims that all twenty-seven of the brides she's helped over the years have promised to appear in her own wedding when the time comes...and sure enough, the final shot of the movie (when Jane is marrying Kevin) reveals ''every single one'' standing on a specially-built platform, each wearing the outfit that Jane herself wore in the corresponding ceremony.