Line #14 Film/Bachelorette


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3	''Bachelorette'' is a 2012 movie written and directed by Creator/LeslyeHeadland and starring Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/LizzyCaplan, Creator/IslaFisher and [[Film/PitchPerfect Rebel Wilson]].
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5	The story revolves around former high school GirlPosse, the B-Faces, reluctantly getting together for the wedding of the group's former ChewToy, Becky (Wilson). Her three so-called friends show up, about 15 years after their graduation from high school, as they are attempting to handle what's become of their lives since then. The uptight maid of honor, [[AlphaBitch Reagan]] (Dunst), and her friends [[TheLadette Gena]] (Caplan) and [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Katie]] (Fisher), [[GreenEyedMonster jealous]] of Becky's happiness, make a total mess of the wedding preparations, rehearsal dinner and so forth. HilarityEnsues.
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7	!!''Bachelorette'' provides examples of:
8	* AbortionFalloutDrama: [[spoiler: Gena and Clyde broke up because she got pregnant and had abortion. Clyde was supposed to drive her to the clinic but didn't show up because he felt guilty and scared.]]
9	* AlphaBitch: Regan, though she has shades of AcademicAlphaBitch as well. She's really intense.
10	---> '''Dale:''' You know how there are, like, serial killers, and then there's Hannibal Lecter?
11	---> '''Trevor:''' Yeah?
12	---> '''Clyde:''' There are girls, and then there's Regan
13	* AffectionatePickpocket: Gena pulls this off. While on drugs.
14	* BlackComedy: The film portrays the three main characters as awful people with even more pathetic lives and plays this both [[PlayedForDrama for drama]] and [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]].
15	* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Regan, Gena and Katie, respectively.
16	** Played with - the redhead is the ditz, the brunette is the wild child, and the blonde is the smart one.
17	* BloodyHilarious: [[spoiler: Katie stains Becky's dress while having a nosebleed.]]
18	* BluntYes: Katie does a great one.
19	--> '''Katie:''' We're totally gonna keep it low key. Just what we were talking about, 'cause that's just the kind of girls we are..
20	--> '''Gena:''' Let's do some coke.
21	--> '''Katie:''' YES!
22	* BrainlessBeauty: Played with and painfully [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]]. Katie is a gorgeous airhead and for most of the film her lack of intelligence is played for laughs. However in a candid moment she admits to her fears about her stupidity to Joe and how she doesn't actually like her life or know how to behave around people she has feelings for, other than via sleeping with them.
23	* BrokenAce: Regan is apparently this. She seems put together, [[spoiler:but is actually dealing with depression and a past of eating disorders]].
24	* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler:Gena had one - her abortion. also lead to her breakup with Clyde.]]
25	%%* DancePartyEnding
26	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Gena. ([[TypeCasting Of course]], it's Creator/LizzyCaplan).
27	%%* TheDitz: Katie, though maybe she's more of a GeniusDitz.
28	* DoggedNiceGuy: Dale. Also, poor little Joe. Clyde is a more deconstructed one, seeing how he does have his JerkAss moments.
29	* DrowningMySorrows: For Gena and Katie, it's a way of life. For Regan, it's a way to handle with this specific madness, as opposed to coping with life.
30	%%* FemaleGaze: Adam Scott, of all people, gets this treatment by Gena.
31	* FireForgedFriends: Becky and Regan [[spoiler:coped together with Regan's bulimia]].
32	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Regan is Choleric, Gena is Melancholic, Becky is Phlegmatic and Katie is Sanguine.
33	* GreenEyedMonster: Maybe. It's not clear whether the girls ruin Becky's dress and make fun of her because they're jealous or just because they're awful human beings.
34	** Though Reagan's expression when Becky shows her the ring is priceless.
35	* ItsAllAboutMe: Regan, Gena and Katie.
36	-->'''Katie:''' You guys had [[spoiler:an abortion]]? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Without me??]]
37	* JadedWashout: Regan, Gena and Katie suffer the "ex-AlphaBitch" version of this trope, being former queens of high school who haven't really had much success, found much happiness and[=/=]or haven't really managed to get their lives together after the GloryDays of high school. One of the reasons they're so obviously jealous of Becky is because, despite being their former punching bag, she's managed to get her life together much better than they have.
38	* {{Jerkass}}: Regan and Trevor.
39	* TheLadette: Gena. So much so - alcohol and drug abuse, emotionless approach to sex, [[BrutalHonesty painful honesty]], vulgar sense of humor - she has it ''down''.
40	* MyNaymeIs: It's Gena - not Jenna, and Regan, not Reagan.
41	* OnlySaneMan: Dale, and to a lesser extent Becky (it ''is'' Rebel Wilson, after all).
42	%%* PetHomosexual: Manny. Down to a T.
43	* PluckyGirl: Katie has nothing going for her but she is still hopelessly optimistic [[spoiler: until she sorts of attempts suicide.]] Mainly when drunk.
44	* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler: Becky told everyone that she was bulimic when her and Regan were found in the bathroom stall in high school, taking the blame and having everyone make awful jokes about her, even well into adulthood.]]
45	%%* SirSwearsALot: Gena and Regan.
46	* SlapSlapKiss: Gena and Clyde. She has her reasons.
47	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Gena has some of the snarkier shades of this trope.
48	* SuicideIsPainless: [[spoiler: Katie tries overdosing on Xanax until Regan forces her to vomit it out. Too bad it gets on the latter's dress.]]
49	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Gena and Kate.
50	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: All three protagonists are (at least at the start of the film) selfish, callous and rude. Regan, who is a grown AlphaBitch verges on being an outright VillainProtagonist.
51	* WhatTheHellHero: Clyde does this to Gena about her drug abuse.
52	%%* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gena and Clyde.
53	* [[ManChild Woman Child]]: Gena.
54	--> '''Stephanie:''' Nice to meet you Mrs. Myers!
55	--> '''Gena:''' Oh, I'm not married. I'm not an adult either...

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