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* HeReallyCanAct: Creator/BenAffleck restored faith in his acting abilities and Creator/BlakeLively proved there is more to her than Serena van der Woodsen. Everyone knew Creator/JonHamm could already act but this showed he could go all the way.
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* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: HeReallyCanAct: Creator/BenAffleck restored faith in his acting abilities and Creator/BlakeLively proved there is more to her than Serena van der Woodsen. Everyone knew Creator/JonHamm could already act but this showed he could go all the way.
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%%HarsherInHindsight isn't just "The actor dies after his character". It's only this trope if the death had some link to how it appeared on screen.
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: There aren't 300 bank robberies a year in the city of Boston, but in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a whole, and usually along the lines of "worker [[StealingFromTheTill pocketing from the cash register]]" and "extortion note" rather than "automatic weaponry and creative masks".
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Given the gritty nature of the film, it can be hard to root for any of the characters in the cast, up to and including Doug himself. Only Claire is 100% sympathetic.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Given the gritty nature of the film, it can be hard to root for any of the characters in the cast, up to and including Doug himself. Only Claire is 100% sympathetic.
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** In the AlternateEnding, [[spoiler:she's the one who gets the money from Doug.]]
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** In the AlternateEnding, alternate ending, [[spoiler:she's the one who gets the money from Doug.]]
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* MagnificentBastard: [[AffablyEvil Doug MacRay]] is a smooth, [[NobleDemon noble]] bank robber who works with his gang, having pulled off [[BankRobbery successful heists for years]]. When his trigger happy partners take bank manager Claire as a hostage, Doug ensures Claire's escape before starting a romance with her in his public persona, genuinely falling for the woman as he continues to rob armored cars and adapt to new variables on the fly to avoid capture. Forced into OneLastJob by his employer Fergie under threat of Claire being hurt, Doug does his best to pull off the doomed heist, and though the whole operation is bungled by outside interferences, Doug evades detection, kills Fergie for past transgressions, and flees to the other side of the country. With the FBI agents on his tail totally fooled by his escape, Doug takes time to say goodbye to Claire and leave her a small fortune, promising to see her again one day.
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* AwardSnub: The film did not get a Best Picture nomination.
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* AwardSnub: The film did not get a Creator/JeremyRenner's UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination for Best Picture nomination.Supporting Actor was the only nod it received.
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* MemeticMutation: "Friendship Goals!"[[note]]Many viewers' response to the scene where Doug asks for Jem's help hurting some people but can't ask any questions and Jem only asks whose car they're going to use.[[/note]]
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** In the AlternateEnding, [[spoiler:she's the one who gets the money from Doug.]]
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** In an interesting way, Doug can be seen as a much darker take on Neil [=McCauley=] from ''Film/{{Heat}}''. It's lampshaded in the Extended Cut where Doug is seen watching ''Heat'' in his apartment at one point. Both men are the true main characters and career criminals who rob banks. But after they plan to retire from their criminal life, both also plan to flee the cities they're living in with the woman they encounter in their lives.
** Claire and Eady. Both women are lovers to the criminal protagonists. But after finding out that the men they fell in love with happens to be living a criminal life, both [[spoiler:were forced to leave them when they're on the verge of being caught by the police.]]
** In an interesting way, Doug can be seen as a much darker take on Neil [=McCauley=] from ''Film/{{Heat}}''. It's lampshaded in the Extended Cut where Doug is seen watching ''Heat'' in his apartment at one point. Both men are the true main characters and career criminals who rob banks. But after they plan to retire from their criminal life, both also plan to flee the cities they're living in with the woman they encounter in their lives.
** Claire and Eady. Both women are lovers to the criminal protagonists. But after finding out that the men they fell in love with happens to be living a criminal life, both [[spoiler:were forced to leave them when they're on the verge of being caught by the police.]]
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* OneSceneWonder: Chris Cooper as Doug's father, Stephen [=MacRay=]. Also, Creator/PetePostlethwaite is on screen for hardly more than 5 minutes, but makes the most of every moment in an intense, genuinely frightening performance as Fergie the Florist.
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* OneSceneWonder: Chris Cooper Creator/ChrisCooper as Doug's father, Stephen [=MacRay=]. Also, Creator/PetePostlethwaite is on screen for hardly more than 5 minutes, but makes the most of every moment in an intense, genuinely frightening performance as Fergie the Florist.
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* HeReallyCanAct: SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Creator/BenAffleck restored faith in his acting abilities and Creator/BlakeLively proved there is more to her than Serena van der Woodsen. Everyone knew Jon Hamm could already act but this showed he could go all the way.
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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Given the gritty nature of the film, it can be hard to root for any of the characters in the cast, up to and including Doug himself.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: It's hard not to feel a little bit sorry for Krista, considering she seemed to at least feel something for Doug whereas he was just using her for sex. Blake Lively described her as someone who wanted to escape her situation just like Doug, and hoped he would be her way out. [[spoiler: The last we see of her, she's in the hospital and her daughter has been taken off her]].
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* OneSceneWonder: Chris Cooper as Doug's father, Stephen [=MacRay=]. Also, Pete Postlethwaite Creator/PetePostlethwaite is on screen for hardly more than 5 minutes, but makes the most of every moment in an intense, genuinely frightening performance as Fergie the Florist.
