| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buttons_poster_3457378f090da13ce1322d30251bab63.jpg]] |
| 2 | ''Buttons'' is a 2018 musical fantasy film starring Creator/DickVanDyke, Creator/AngelaLansbury, Creator/JaneSeymourActress, Creator/IoanGruffudd, Creator/KatieMcGrath, Creator/RobertPicardo, and Creator/JohnDeLancie. |
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| 4 | The movie features a FramingDevice in which Rose (Lansbury) is telling a story to a glum orphan named Emily. The story she's telling is about a young girl named Annabelle, and her relationship with her GuardianAngel (Van Dyke). |
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| 6 | It was released in five hundred select theaters on December 8, 2018 at 12:55 p.m. See the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbGnzzAiLw here]]. |
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| 8 | !!This movie provides examples of: |
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| 10 | * BreakTheCutie: Annabelle is put through the wringer, losing her parents, going from living in apparent relative wealth to slaving away in a mill, and then living on the streets after she runs away from said mill. |
| 11 | * DaddysGirl: Annabelle is very close to her father before he dies. |
| 12 | * TheEdwardianEra: The main story with Annabelle appears to take place during this era, more or less. The frame story with Emily is set a while later, in the 1920s or 1930s. |
| 13 | * GuardianAngel: Lansbury and Van Dyke's characters |
| 14 | * HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:The wealthy Brownings adopt all the mill girls]] |
| 15 | * HeartwarmingOrphan: Emily and, eventually, Annabelle |
| 16 | * KidsAreCruel: The other orphans are mean to Annabelle, and give her the nickname "[[TheNamesake Buttons]]" |
| 17 | * RealAfterAll: [[spoiler:Not only is Rose's story true, the film ends with Emily getting adopted by the grown-up Annabelle]] |
| 18 | * RichesToRags: Happens to Annabelle when her father dies, and even more so when her mother dies |
| 19 | * StreetUrchin: Annabelle becomes one after running away from the mill |
| 20 | * TooUnhappyToBeHungry: Annabelle refuses to eat after her father dies. |
| 21 | * TragicKeepsake: In Annabelle's case, a little porcelain dog |
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