History Theatre / PerfectPie

* IllGirl:
** Marie has seizures and brittle bones (from malnourishment) as a kid; when they're grown up, it's Patsy who's ill instead.
** In the movie, Maries has brittle bones and asthma as a child, while Patsy has seizures has the same way Marie did in the play.

The play is the story of two women (and only two: no one else technically appears other than their past selves) meeting and reconciling after decades of never speaking to each other. Pasty Willet is a middle-aged woman who lives on a family farm in a small town in Ontario. Her life, married with several children, is not perfect but is by no means awful. Eventually, however, she finds herself dictating a message by tape to Francesca, a famous actress, and inviting her over to visit nearly out of the blue.

* DownOnTheFarm: Patsy, and her family has been for generations; the play takes place mostly on her dairy farm. ([[InSpace IN CANADA!]])

In 2002 it was adapted into a film starring Wendy Crewson (Patsy) and Barbara Wilson (Francesca).

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Francesca was the woman a man left his family for; she left him "after the thrill of breaking up a family wore off". While she admitted it wasn't something she's proud of she also said that she'd probably do it again; Patsy told her that if she tried that with ''her'' she'd go after her with a baseball bat, which Francesca agreed she'd deserve.

* ThatManIsDead: By the end of the play Francesca tells Patsy that she isn't Marie Begg anymore... but continues on to say that she also isn't ''Francesca'' anymore, either.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the play, Marie's reluctance at going swimming is because she's afraid of having a seizure while she's in the water. In the movie she doesn't have seizures, leaving her fear of going swimming inexplicable.

The play is the story of two women (and only two: no one else technically appears other than their past selves) meeting and reconciling after decades of never speaking to each other. Pasty Willet is a middle-aged woman who lives on a farm in a small town in Ontario; her life, while not perfect, is by no means awful. Eventually, however, she finds herself dictating a message by tape to Francesca, a famous actress, and inviting her over to visit out of the blue- it's been years, after all, and she misses Marie Begg, the girl who had been her best friend from the day they met. Marie, now called Francesca, who is beautiful, renowned, and [[LonelyAtTheTop never able to shake the sense of being alone in the world]], finds herself agreeing despite her trepidation, and returns to the town where everyone had treated her as less than dirt- everyone, that is, but Patsy.

* AnachronicOrder: The story shifts between the reunion of adult!Patsy and Francesca, and the growing friendship between child!Patsy and Marie, with both building up to the moment of crisis on the train tracks for the climax.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: From the book of Isaiah: "I will not forget you, you are carved in the palm of my hand."

* GenkiGirl: Patsy as a child; even as an adult, she's far more expressive than Francesca.

* IllGirl: Marie has seizures and brittle bones (from malnourishment) as a kid; when they're grown up, it's Patsy who's ill.
** In the movie, she has asthma instead of seizures, which Patsy has the same way she did in the play.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Patsy, both as a child and as an adult.

* InterruptedSuicide: Used twice in succession; Marie goes down to stand on the train tracks to wait for the train, and Patsy follows her and initially tries to drag her off. During after the struggle, though, Patsy (extremely ill and feverish) decided that Marie was right and that they'll go out together; Marie then has to try and pull ''her'' off the tracks before the train came... somewhat less successfully, since Patsy was significantly stronger than her, leading to her still getting hit even if it wasn't enough to kill her.
* KidsAreCruel: It's the treatment of the other kids (apart from Patsy) that makes Marie's life such hell. Later, it graduates into...
** TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:It was a group of teenage boys around her age who attacked and raped 16-year old Marie at the prom.]]

''Perfect Pie'' is a play written in 2000 by Judith Thompson, which in 2002 was turned into a movie starring Wendy Crewson (Patsy) and Barbara Wilson (Francesca).

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[[caption-width-right:330:Come with me. We have to get away from here, come with me.]]

''Perfect Pie'' is a play written in 2000 by Judith Thompson, and in 2002 was turned into a movie starring Wendy Crewson (Patsy) and Barbara Wilson (Francesca).

* SheCleansUpNicely: After Patsy helps her dress up for the prom; the stage directions even say ''"We can see the beautiful woman she will become"''.

* EmbarrassingLastName: Marie ''Begg'', who's the poorest girl in town; she understandably hates it, though Patsy says she thinks it's a beautiful name.

* NewTransferStudent: Part of what originally draws Patsy's attention to Marie; she moved to town from Detroit, and Patsy's never met anyone who's actually been to the States before.

* AdaptationalContextChange: Marie's apology to Patsy, which she thought to herself in a diner in the play, is said at Parsy's bedside while she's in her coma in the movie.

** Marie is an outcast mainly due to her poverty, with the difficulties from her being Catholic largely absent and her backstory of having resented moved back home from the States is removed entirely.
** The details of Marie's three husbands and why she divorced them are largely skipped over.
* Adaptation Expansion: In the movie Francesca comes to sing for a charity event Patsy is holding, and stays for the weekend instead of just the day. This gives the movie time to put in multiple subplots that weren't in the play, including Marie and Patsy having been in church chorus, them having planned on competing in a musical competition, and Francesca meeting and reconciling with the date who abandoned her at the dance.

* RapeDiscretionShot: We cut from the boys unzipping their pants and Marie having a seizure to Marie returning to Patsy's house a mess, blood on the back of her dress.

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[[caption-width-right:330:Come with me. We have to get away from here, come with me.]]

''Perfect Pie'' is play written in 2000 by Judith Thompson, and in 2002 was turned into a movie starring Wendy Crewson (Patsy) and Barbara Wilson (Francesca).

* AdaptionNameChange:

** They play around and pretend to be a dancer and "[[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe the beautiful Annabel Lee]]" riding on a sleigh through the snow together... [[GrotesqueCute and then cheerfully sing-songing about how they'll freeze to death together when they get lost in a snowstorm.]]
** They both sing the hymn "Abide With Me" at the start of the play.

* SmallTownBoredom: Marie had it as a kid, though it was mostly because of the way the rest of the town treated her than anything else; she was somewhat shocked that Patsy was content to stay in Marmota.

* SmallTownBoredom: Marie had them as a kid, though it was mostly because of the way the rest of the town treated her than anything else; she was somewhat shocked that Patsy was content to stay.