Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* OnlySaneMan / TokenGoodTeammate: Zach is only employee at the airport who thinks of the safety and well being of the kids is more than Mr. Porter disciplining them.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
** After the teenagers manage escape the rooms they are locked in with being caught on the security cameras, one security guard asks Mr. Porter if they can go on coffee break. This time, Mr. Porter dosen't even answer the question.
to:
** After the teenagers manage escape the rooms they are locked in with without being caught on the security cameras, one security guard asks Mr. Porter if they can go on coffee break. This time, Mr. Porter dosen't even answer the question.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 6 (click to see context) from:
* AdultsAreUseless: The adults in general are incompetent or too self-righteous to think of the children, let alone during the middle of a blizzard.
to:
* AdultsAreUseless: The adults in general are incompetent or too self-righteous to think of the children, let alone during the middle of a blizzard. One possible exception is probably the maid at the hotel who watched over Katherine when she sleeping by the fireplace waiting for Santa Claus.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 49 (click to see context) from:
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Averted. While Grace is getting herself a massage, she is caught by two security guards for escaping the UM room. Grace amusingly asked them if they were forcing her out in the nude, but they are grossed out by this response and walk out.
to:
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Averted. While Grace is getting herself a massage, she is caught by two security guards for escaping the UM room. Grace amusingly asked them if they were forcing going to force her out in the nude, but they are grossed out by this response and walk out.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Averted. While Grace is getting herself a massage, she is caught by two security guards for escaping the UM room. Grace amusingly asked them if they were forcing her out in the nude, but they are grossed out by this response and walk out.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 28 (click to see context) :
* DumbassHasAPoint: By the end of the film, Judy, Valerie's sister, tells her to start dating more, remarking how ridiculous she looks.
Changed line(s) 53 (click to see context) from:
---> Mr. Porter: Okay! Now ''I'm'' mad!
to:
---> Mr. Porter: Okay! Now ''I'm'' mad!mad!
* YouNeedToGetLaid: By the end of the film, Judy, Valerie's sister, tells her to start dating more after her divorce with Sam, remarking how ridiculous she looks.
* YouNeedToGetLaid: By the end of the film, Judy, Valerie's sister, tells her to start dating more after her divorce with Sam, remarking how ridiculous she looks.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 36 (click to see context) from:
* IHaveNoDaughter:
to:
* IHaveNoDaughter:IHaveNoDaughter: Lampshaded by Grace about her parents constantly neglecting her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* FreudianExcuse:
** Spencer's irritable attitude is merely a mask to hide the great burden of constantly taking care of his younger sister Katherine by himself following their parents Sam and Valerie's divorce, particularly resenting his father's workaholic absence and his mother's overprotectiveness.
** Grace, on the other hand, acts as a conceited spoiled rich girl due to her own non-divorced parents who don't really enjoy her company, giving her excuses as to not be around her such as sending her to a boarding school, which is 20 minutes away from the International Hoover Airport, and making her spend Christmas with a nanny.
** Spencer's irritable attitude is merely a mask to hide the great burden of constantly taking care of his younger sister Katherine by himself following their parents Sam and Valerie's divorce, particularly resenting his father's workaholic absence and his mother's overprotectiveness.
** Grace, on the other hand, acts as a conceited spoiled rich girl due to her own non-divorced parents who don't really enjoy her company, giving her excuses as to not be around her such as sending her to a boarding school, which is 20 minutes away from the International Hoover Airport, and making her spend Christmas with a nanny.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 27 (click to see context) from:
* DudeNotFunny: Grace tells the other minors that if she is returned to the UM room that's on them, to which Donna provokes her by asking her if she's going to have her dad hire a hit man. Grace
to:
* DudeNotFunny: Grace tells the other minors that if she is returned to the UM room that's on them, to which Donna provokes her by asking her if she's going to have her dad hire a hit man. Grace slyly replies "Maybe I'll just have him break ''your'' dad out of jail". This enrages Donna and starts a fight with Grace.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* DudeNotFunny: Grace tells the other minors that if she is returned to the UM room that's on them, to which Donna provokes her by asking her if she's going to have her dad hire a hit man. Grace
* DumbassHasAPoint: By the end of the film, Judy, Valerie's sister, tells her to start dating more, remarking how ridiculous she looks.
* DumbassHasAPoint: By the end of the film, Judy, Valerie's sister, tells her to start dating more, remarking how ridiculous she looks.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BigWhat: Mr. Porter's reaction upon seeing that the security cameras of the minors's rooms have been tampered with.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 17 (click to see context) from:
* CassandraTruth: Valerie warns Sam about how dangerous is talking on highway payphones in the middle of nowhere, as she had read in tabloids that some freak accidents tend to happen there. Sam doesn't believe her, dismissing her claims as "made up stories". However, and speak of the devil, another driver at a fast speed fails to notice Sam, causing him to abruptly brake his car with a Christmas tree deattaching itself and crashing face-first into Sam's ecological car. As a result, almost all of his Biodiesel fuel starts leaking rapidly, thus proving that Valerie was right.
to:
* CassandraTruth: Valerie CassandraTruth:
**Valerie warns Sam about how dangerous is talking on highway payphones in the middle of nowhere, as she had read in tabloids that some freak accidents tend to happen there. Sam doesn't believe her, dismissing her claims as "made up stories". However, and speak of the devil, another driver at a fast speed fails to notice Sam, causing him to abruptly brake his car with a Christmas tree deattaching itself and crashing face-first into Sam's ecological car. As a result, almost all of his Biodiesel fuel starts leaking rapidly, thus proving that Valerie wasright.right.
---> Valerie: Well, I hope you're not talking on one of those roadside pay phones. I read that all kinds of freak accidents happen there by the shoulder.
---> Sam: You have to stop reading those dumb tabloids, okay? You know they make those stories up. [a car suddenly shows up and unintentionally ruins Sam's car as both of them scream in terror. Sam's biodiesel fuel starts leaking rapidly] Oh, boy.
**Mr. Porter tries to grab Donna, but Charlie warns him against doing so as she doesn't like to be touched. He ignores him though and ''does'' grab Donna, only for her to hit him in the stomach. Lampshaded by Mr. Porter.
---> Mr. Porter: Oh, well. Maybe next Christmas will be better than this one.
---> Charlie: Sir, I advise you not to do that.
---> Mr. Porter: Punk, watch ''this''. [grabs Donna and she hits him] Thanks for the tip.
**Valerie warns Sam about how dangerous is talking on highway payphones in the middle of nowhere, as she had read in tabloids that some freak accidents tend to happen there. Sam doesn't believe her, dismissing her claims as "made up stories". However, and speak of the devil, another driver at a fast speed fails to notice Sam, causing him to abruptly brake his car with a Christmas tree deattaching itself and crashing face-first into Sam's ecological car. As a result, almost all of his Biodiesel fuel starts leaking rapidly, thus proving that Valerie was
---> Valerie: Well, I hope you're not talking on one of those roadside pay phones. I read that all kinds of freak accidents happen there by the shoulder.
---> Sam: You have to stop reading those dumb tabloids, okay? You know they make those stories up. [a car suddenly shows up and unintentionally ruins Sam's car as both of them scream in terror. Sam's biodiesel fuel starts leaking rapidly] Oh, boy.
**Mr. Porter tries to grab Donna, but Charlie warns him against doing so as she doesn't like to be touched. He ignores him though and ''does'' grab Donna, only for her to hit him in the stomach. Lampshaded by Mr. Porter.
---> Mr. Porter: Oh, well. Maybe next Christmas will be better than this one.
---> Charlie: Sir, I advise you not to do that.
---> Mr. Porter: Punk, watch ''this''. [grabs Donna and she hits him] Thanks for the tip.
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* SubbingForSanta: A rare mundane example; Spencer knows Katherine will think Santa forgot her if she wakes up on Christmas morning and there's no present, so his condition for the plan to get to the lodge is that they will first find a present for his sister.
to:
* SubbingForSanta: A rare mundane example; Spencer knows Katherine will think Santa forgot her if she wakes up on Christmas morning and there's no present, so his condition for the plan to get to the lodge is that they will first find a present for his sister.sister.
* VillainousBreakdown: Lampshaded by Mr. Porter as he enters the lodge and surrenders the minors.
---> Mr. Porter: Okay! Now ''I'm'' mad!
* VillainousBreakdown: Lampshaded by Mr. Porter as he enters the lodge and surrenders the minors.
---> Mr. Porter: Okay! Now ''I'm'' mad!
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 22 (click to see context) from:
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Lampshaded by Donna after Charlie tells Zach they're going to the lodge to find Spencer's sister, holding him captive against his will in the canoe, despite repeatedly pleading them to let him go and promising he won't rat them out to Mr. Porter.
to:
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Lampshaded by Donna after Charlie tells Zach they're going to the lodge to find Spencer's sister, holding him captive in the canoe against his will in the canoe, will, despite repeatedly pleading them to let him go and promising he won't rat them out to Mr. Porter.Porter.
* IWillShowYouX: Invoked and subverted. Mr. Porter notices the minors trying to further reach the lodge and he speeds up his own canoe. Unfortunately for him, he fails to brake it, resulting in Mr. Porter flying across the parking lot and hitting the nearby parked cars.
* IWillShowYouX: Invoked and subverted. Mr. Porter notices the minors trying to further reach the lodge and he speeds up his own canoe. Unfortunately for him, he fails to brake it, resulting in Mr. Porter flying across the parking lot and hitting the nearby parked cars.
Changed line(s) 26 (click to see context) from:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Zach catches the minors with a canoe outside of the airport's warehouse after evading Mr. Porter and the security guards, Charlie tells him they're going to the lodge to find Spencer's sister. This is lampshaded by Grace who sarcastically replies "Way to go, Charlie. Anything else you wanna tell him?"
to:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Zach catches the minors with a canoe outside of the airport's warehouse after evading Mr. Porter and the security guards, Charlie tells him they're going to the lodge to find Spencer's sister. This is lampshaded by Grace who sarcastically replies "Way to go, Charlie. Anything else you wanna tell him?"him?".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Lampshaded by Donna after Charlie tells Zach they're going to the lodge to find Spencer's sister, holding him captive against his will in the canoe, despite repeatedly pleading them to let him go and promising he won't rat them out to Mr. Porter.
Added DiffLines:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Zach catches the minors with a canoe outside of the airport's warehouse after evading Mr. Porter and the security guards, Charlie tells him they're going to the lodge to find Spencer's sister. This is lampshaded by Grace who sarcastically replies "Way to go, Charlie. Anything else you wanna tell him?"
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CassandraTruth: Valerie warns Sam about how dangerous is talking on highway payphones in the middle of nowhere, as she had read in tabloids that some freak accidents tend to happen there. Sam doesn't believe her, dismissing her claims as "made up stories". However, and speak of the devil, another driver at a fast speed fails to notice Sam, causing him to abruptly brake his car with a Christmas tree deattaching itself and crashing face-first into Sam's ecological car. As a result, almost all of his Biodiesel fuel starts leaking rapidly, thus proving that Valerie was right.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BerserkButton: Donna gets physically violent if you TOUCH her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* NakedPeopleAreFunny / ToplessnessFromTheBack: Grace's bare back is briefly shown as she is getting herself a massage, right before she is caught by two security guards for escaping the UM room, to which she amusingly asks "Are you gonna let me get dressed, or should I just walk out of here naked?".
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* KickTheDog / TheDogBitesBack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]].
to:
* KickTheDog / TheDogBitesBack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight]]. Spencer distracts a group of snobbish employees of the luggage transportation room, who are on a break having dinner, by releasing a barking dog he spots nearby. Just after he unlocks its cage, one of the employees offers their food, only for him to outright rub it in its face by eating the last piece himself. As a result, the angered dog ''bites'' two of them in retaliation.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 21 (click to see context) from:
* KickTheDog/TheDogBitesBack: PlayingWithATrope Played straight.
to:
* KickTheDog/TheDogBitesBack: PlayingWithATrope KickTheDog / TheDogBitesBack: [[PlayingWithATrope Played straight.straight]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* KickTheDog/TheDogBitesBack: PlayingWithATrope Played straight.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* AirVentPassageway: The kids escape from the individual rooms Mr. Porter locked them in this way. When [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the air vent collapses under their weight]], they find a room of confiscated decorations and decide to festify the airport.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: While holding the minors in separate cells, Mr. Porter sarcastically promises that, if they can escape again, he will give up on trying to detain them. They do escape, of course, and leave the man a note reminding him of this promise. After a heart-to-heart with Spencer, Porter gets into the Christmas spirit and hands out toys as Santa the next morning.
* HatesBeingTouched: [[RuleOfThree A mall santa, Charlie and Mr. Porter]] all touch Donna on her shoulder, and all get a punch to the gut for it.
Changed line(s) 26,27 (click to see context) from:
* SubbingForSanta: A rare mundane example; Spencer knows Katherine will think Santa forgot her if she wakes up on Christmas morning and there's no present, so his condition for the plan to get to the lodge is that they will first find a present for his sister.
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.
to:
* SubbingForSanta: A rare mundane example; Spencer knows Katherine will think Santa forgot her if she wakes up on Christmas morning and there's no present, so his condition for the plan to get to the lodge is that they will first find a present for his sister.
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.sister.
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7 (click to see context) from:
* AskAStupidQuestion: After the teenagers manage escape the rooms they are locked in with being caught on the security cameras, one security guard asks Mr. Porter if they can go on coffee break. Mr. Porter dosen't even answer the question.
to:
* AskAStupidQuestion: AskAStupidQuestion:
** When Charlie asks if the Minors are going to the lodge with the other kids, Mr. Porter answers, "Are you out of your juice-drinking little minds?!"
** After the teenagers manage escape the rooms they are locked in with being caught on the security cameras, one security guard asks Mr. Porter if they can go on coffee break. This time, Mr. Porter dosen't even answer the question.
** When Charlie asks if the Minors are going to the lodge with the other kids, Mr. Porter answers, "Are you out of your juice-drinking little minds?!"
** After the teenagers manage escape the rooms they are locked in with being caught on the security cameras, one security guard asks Mr. Porter if they can go on coffee break. This time, Mr. Porter dosen't even answer the question.
Added DiffLines:
* TheGrinch: Mr. Porter dislikes Christmas because it's such a busy, stressful time of year for him. He's in an especially bad mood this Christmas because the blizzard stalled his Hawaiian vacation.
Added DiffLines:
* OverTheTopChristmasDecorations: Aunt Judy's house is ''covered'' in decorations, inside and outside, and she implies that her decorating somehow goes beyond that. There is even an inflating Santa in a chimney with motion sensors on the lawn that scares the bejeezus out of anybody walking by.
* ParentalNeglect: Grace, the only kid whose parents aren't split up, eventually confesses that her parents take great measures to avoid her, including boarding school and leaving her to spend Christmas with a nanny while they are in Paris.
* PottyEmergency: While the other minors escape the UM room to enjoy themselves, Charlie leaves with them because he needed a bathroom and the provided one was clogged by a flushed phone.
* ParentalNeglect: Grace, the only kid whose parents aren't split up, eventually confesses that her parents take great measures to avoid her, including boarding school and leaving her to spend Christmas with a nanny while they are in Paris.
* PottyEmergency: While the other minors escape the UM room to enjoy themselves, Charlie leaves with them because he needed a bathroom and the provided one was clogged by a flushed phone.
Added DiffLines:
* SubbingForSanta: A rare mundane example; Spencer knows Katherine will think Santa forgot her if she wakes up on Christmas morning and there's no present, so his condition for the plan to get to the lodge is that they will first find a present for his sister.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AskAStupidQuestion: After the teenagers manage escape the rooms they are locked in with being caught on the security cameras, one security guard asks Mr. Porter if they can go on coffee break. Mr. Porter dosen't even answer the question.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BrattyHalfPint: Katherine acts like this to Spencer most of the time; she's introduced alongside Spencer throwing a tantrum because she doesn't want to sit in Santa's lap, but also doesn't want to ''leave''. She then gets upset again when they have to switch planes on the way to their dad's, though not to the same extent. Spencer does care about her, however, as he takes a doll out of an unclaimed suitcase in a warehouse as a gift for her.
Added DiffLines:
* GranolaGirl: Spencer and Katherine's father is a male version of this, having a car that runs on biodiesel and not letting Spencer get a phone because millions of them are filling up landfills everywhere.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
'''''Unaccompanied Minors''''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film, directed by Creator/PaulFeig. It is about a group of teenagers who are stranded at a fictional Midwestern airport by a blizzard during Christmas Eve. Spencer wants to keep the spirit of Christmas alive in his younger sister, Katherine, and enlists the help of fellow unaccompanied minors Grace (Creator/GiaMantegna), Charlie (Creator/TylerJamesWilliams), Donna, and Beef to arrange an impromptu Christmas party and search a gift for Katherine. Along the way, they have to evade Mr. Porter (Creator/LewisBlack), the grumpy head of passenger relations whose own flight to Hawaii is canceled.
to:
'''''Unaccompanied Minors''''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film, directed by Creator/PaulFeig. It is about a group of teenagers who are stranded at a fictional Midwestern airport by a blizzard during Christmas Eve. Spencer wants to keep the spirit of Christmas alive in his younger sister, Katherine, and enlists the help of fellow unaccompanied minors Grace (Creator/GiaMantegna), Charlie (Creator/TylerJamesWilliams), Donna, Donna (Creator/QuinnShephard), and Beef to arrange an impromptu Christmas party and search a gift for Katherine. Along the way, they have to evade Mr. Porter (Creator/LewisBlack), the grumpy head of passenger relations whose own flight to Hawaii is canceled.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
'''''Unaccompanied Minors''''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film.
to:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unaccompanied_minors_poster.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
'''''Unaccompanied Minors''''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedyfilm.
film, directed by Creator/PaulFeig. It is about a group of teenagers who are stranded at a fictional Midwestern airport by a blizzard during Christmas Eve. Spencer wants to keep the spirit of Christmas alive in his younger sister, Katherine, and enlists the help of fellow unaccompanied minors Grace (Creator/GiaMantegna), Charlie (Creator/TylerJamesWilliams), Donna, and Beef to arrange an impromptu Christmas party and search a gift for Katherine. Along the way, they have to evade Mr. Porter (Creator/LewisBlack), the grumpy head of passenger relations whose own flight to Hawaii is canceled.
[[caption-width-right:350:]]
'''''Unaccompanied Minors''''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
'''Unaccompanied Minors''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film.
to:
Added DiffLines:
* SoundToScreenAdaptation: The film is based off a non-fiction story by writer Susan Burton, which she debuted on an episode of the public radio program ''Radio/ThisAmericanLife'' in 2001.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* NutritionalNightmare: Porter calls what Spencer ordered at the airport's restaurant the heart attack special.
* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Katherine gets screwed over ''twice'' because of this trope.
** Her brother Spencer leaves her alone with the airport security since he wanted to grab a big meal at the airport's restaurant to catch up on all the foods his mother wouldn't let him eat in the house (cheeseburgers, popcorn shrimp, fries, mozzarella sticks and nachos).
** Then Katherine gets relocated to a facility but the flight attendants there responsible for Katherine refuse to look after her because they want to go grab a free dinner provided by their bosses and allow a crazy girl look after her, who proceeds to give Katherine an unwanted extreme makeover.
* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Katherine gets screwed over ''twice'' because of this trope.
** Her brother Spencer leaves her alone with the airport security since he wanted to grab a big meal at the airport's restaurant to catch up on all the foods his mother wouldn't let him eat in the house (cheeseburgers, popcorn shrimp, fries, mozzarella sticks and nachos).
** Then Katherine gets relocated to a facility but the flight attendants there responsible for Katherine refuse to look after her because they want to go grab a free dinner provided by their bosses and allow a crazy girl look after her, who proceeds to give Katherine an unwanted extreme makeover.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
'''Unaccompanied Minors''' is a 2006 American Christmas comedy film.
!!Tropes
* AdultsAreUseless: The adults in general are incompetent or too self-righteous to think of the children, let alone during the middle of a blizzard.
* BabysitterFromHell: Katherine is put in the hands of a psychotic girl who treats her like a Barbie doll as the women in charge of looking after the juvenile girls care mostly about getting their free Christmas Eve dinner.
* BigBad: Oliver Porter, the head of passenger relations, who vows to prevent the teenagers from reaching Katherine because the teenagers are his responsibility. He does however reform at the end.
* ButtMonkey: Katherine, who winds up in the hands of a hellish fashionista who only sees her as entertainment value like a Barbie doll.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Porter when he calls out Spencer for leaving his 8-year old sister all by herself and that Katherine had to be taken somewhere else because of his negligence.
* StuckAtTheAirportPlot: The main premise of the film.
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.
!!Tropes
* AdultsAreUseless: The adults in general are incompetent or too self-righteous to think of the children, let alone during the middle of a blizzard.
* BabysitterFromHell: Katherine is put in the hands of a psychotic girl who treats her like a Barbie doll as the women in charge of looking after the juvenile girls care mostly about getting their free Christmas Eve dinner.
* BigBad: Oliver Porter, the head of passenger relations, who vows to prevent the teenagers from reaching Katherine because the teenagers are his responsibility. He does however reform at the end.
* ButtMonkey: Katherine, who winds up in the hands of a hellish fashionista who only sees her as entertainment value like a Barbie doll.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Porter when he calls out Spencer for leaving his 8-year old sister all by herself and that Katherine had to be taken somewhere else because of his negligence.
* StuckAtTheAirportPlot: The main premise of the film.
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: The film's protagonist Spencer Davenport left his little sister Katherine all by herself at the minors room while he went to go grab lunch. When the airport security bring him back to the same room she was last seen, Spencer's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in and he works to find her.
