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* BookEnds / HereWeGoAgain: The book begins and ends with Adam riding his bike to Rutterburg.
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* BookEnds / HereWeGoAgain: BookEnds: The book begins and ends with Adam riding his bike to Rutterburg.
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* GagBoobs: Adam spends quite a bit of time gushing about the size of Amy Hertz's breasts.
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* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: "I am the cheese." Because...
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* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: "I am the cheese." Because... Because the cheese stands alone."
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Adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1983 film]] directed by Robert Jiras and starring Robert [=MacNaughton=], Creator/CynthiaNixon, Creator/RobertWagner, Creator/HopeLange, and Don Murray.
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Adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1983 film]] directed by Robert Jiras and starring Robert [=MacNaughton=], Creator/CynthiaNixon, Creator/RobertWagner, Creator/HopeLange, and Don Murray.Creator/DonMurray.
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So a 14-year-old boy is riding around on his bike, trying to get to his dad, who is in the hospital in a faraway city. Meanwhile, the same boy is sitting in some kind of interrogation room in a mental hospital, trying to remember his life before the hospital.
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So a boy is riding around on his bike, trying to get to his dad, who's in the hospital in a faraway city. The same boy, Adam Farmer, is sitting in some kind of interrogation room in a mental hospital, trying to remember his life before the hospital.
A 1977 young adult novel by Creator/RobertCormier, later adapted into a 1983 film, ''I Am the Cheese'' is the emotional MindScrew story of Adam Farmer, who is afraid of everything, has to take medication and is in love with a girl named Amy.
So a boy is riding around on his bike, trying to get to his dad, who's in the hospital in a faraway city. The same boy, Adam Farmer, is sitting in some kind of interrogation room in a mental hospital, trying to remember his life before the hospital.
A 1977 young adult novel by Creator/RobertCormier, later adapted into a 1983 film, ''I Am the Cheese'' is the emotional MindScrew story of Adam Farmer, who is afraid of everything, has to take medication and is in love with a girl named Amy.
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So a 14-year-old boy is riding around on his bike, trying to get to his dad,
A 1977 young adult novel by Creator/RobertCormier,
Adapted into a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1983 film]] directed by Robert Jiras and starring Robert [=MacNaughton=], Creator/CynthiaNixon, Creator/RobertWagner, Creator/HopeLange, and Don Murray.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: Unlike the novel, the film ends with [[spoiler:Adam escaping from the mental hospital]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It's strongly implied that the GovernmentConspiracy feels Adam has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlasted his usefulness]]. Brint recommends that Adam be confined until termination is approved, or until he "[[DeadlyEuphemism obliterates]]."]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: It's strongly implied that the GovernmentConspiracy feels Adam has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlasted his usefulness]]. Brint recommends that Adam be confined until termination is approved, or until he "[[DeadlyEuphemism "[[BrokenTears obliterates]]."]]
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A 1977 young adult novel by Robert Cormier (''Literature/TheChocolateWar''), later adapted into a 1983 film, ''I Am the Cheese'' is the emotional MindScrew story of Adam Farmer, who is afraid of everything, has to take medication and is in love with a girl named Amy.
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A 1977 young adult novel by Robert Cormier (''Literature/TheChocolateWar''), Creator/RobertCormier, later adapted into a 1983 film, ''I Am the Cheese'' is the emotional MindScrew story of Adam Farmer, who is afraid of everything, has to take medication and is in love with a girl named Amy.
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A 1977 young adult novel by Robert Cormier (''Literature/TheChocolateWar''), and later a film in the early 80's, ''I Am the Cheese'' is the emotional MindScrew story of Adam Farmer, who is afraid of everything, has to take medication and is in love with a girl named Amy.
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A 1977 young adult novel by Robert Cormier (''Literature/TheChocolateWar''), and later adapted into a film in the early 80's, 1983 film, ''I Am the Cheese'' is the emotional MindScrew story of Adam Farmer, who is afraid of everything, has to take medication and is in love with a girl named Amy.
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* SilentCredits: The movie ''would'' have had this if not for the JustForFun/{{rickroll}} in the reissue, described below. The song is appropriate, however, in that [[spoiler: Adam won't give up any information about his father, who is being pursued by "Department 1-R". Listen to the lyrics with that in mind, and it becomes tragically sad.]]
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* SilentCredits: The movie ''would'' have had this if not for the {{rickroll}} in the reissue, described below.
** RickRoll: A re-release of the film [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer apparently]] used Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" during the end credits, perhaps to distract us from the DownerEnding. There was already SoundtrackDissonance ''before'' Rick Rolling [[HilariousInHindsight became a thing]].
** The song is appropriate, however, in that [[spoiler: Adam won't give up any information about his father, who is being pursued by "Department 1-R". Listen to the lyrics with that in mind, and it becomes tragically sad.]]
** RickRoll: A re-release of the film [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer apparently]] used Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" during the end credits, perhaps to distract us from the DownerEnding. There was already SoundtrackDissonance ''before'' Rick Rolling [[HilariousInHindsight became a thing]].
** The song is appropriate, however, in that [[spoiler: Adam won't give up any information about his father, who is being pursued by "Department 1-R". Listen to the lyrics with that in mind, and it becomes tragically sad.]]
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* SilentCredits: The movie ''would'' have had this if not for the {{rickroll}} JustForFun/{{rickroll}} in the reissue, described below.
** RickRoll: A re-release of the film [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer apparently]] used Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" during the end credits, perhaps to distract us from the DownerEnding. There was already SoundtrackDissonance ''before'' Rick Rolling [[HilariousInHindsight became a thing]].
**below. The song is appropriate, however, in that [[spoiler: Adam won't give up any information about his father, who is being pursued by "Department 1-R". Listen to the lyrics with that in mind, and it becomes tragically sad.]]
** RickRoll: A re-release of the film [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer apparently]] used Music/RickAstley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" during the end credits, perhaps to distract us from the DownerEnding. There was already SoundtrackDissonance ''before'' Rick Rolling [[HilariousInHindsight became a thing]].
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* MenInBlack: Adam describes someone as "the grey man", a government spook dressed all in grey.
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* MenInBlack: TheMenInBlack: Adam describes someone as "the grey man", a government spook dressed all in grey.
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* MacGuffin: [[spoiler: Adam is looking for his dad (who is dead.) The government is looking for "the package" and whatever info Adam is hiding.]]
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: ''The Farmer In the Dell'' is the [[spoiler: Delmonte]] family's theme song. When singing it in the car, the lyrics they sing are "The farmer takes a wife", "The wife takes the child", and "The cheese stands alone".
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* OrphansOrdeal: [[spoiler: Adam, which is why he insists "I am the cheese." (The cheese stands alone.)]]
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