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4''Invisible Sister'' is a 2015 Disney Channel film, with Paul Hoen as director. It is about a girl named Cleo (Creator/RowanBlanchard) who accidentally turns her older sister, Molly (Creator/ParisBerelc), invisible, and must find a way to undo the invisibility, as well as pretend to be Molly in school.
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8* AdultsAreUseless: Only [[spoiler:Mr. Perkins]] learns about what happened to Molly, and he doesn’t do much to help solve the problem. Justified, as the parents are out of town and he didn’t know until the end.
9* BookDumb: Molly does not get good grades, and even admits this to Cleo.
10* BrainyBrunette: Cleo has brown hair and gets good grades, seemingly without effort.
11* BrilliantButLazy: Implied. Cleo gets 100% on her science quiz, but is shown to be listening to music throughout the class. By how she and Mr. Perkins talk later, it is implied that wasn’t the only time it happened.
12* CelestialDeadline: At midnight, Molly's invisibility will become permanent, as her body will have fully ingested the potion.
13* ClassPrincess: Molly, who is pretty, nice, skilled in sports, and adored by her friends.
14* ChekhovsGun: Molly tells her sister that she always drinks a ginger ale before a lacrosse game. [[spoiler:This turns out to be the thing they're missing in the antidote.]]
15* DeadpanSnarker: Cleo can be like this.
16-->'''Mr.Perkins:''' This is the same matter in two distinct forms. One is dense, dull...\
17'''Cleo:''' Much like this conversation.
18* TheDitz: Molly's boyfriend, Coug, is not very bright.
19* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Invisible Sister" refers to how Cleo has literally turned Molly invisible, and also how Cleo often feels invisible in comparison to her sister.
20* HiddenDepths: Carter [[spoiler:is a governor scholar in chemistry]].
21* IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: When Coug wondered whether Molly was going to break up with him, he said that all he wanted was for Molly to be happy.
22* InformedAttribute: Molly and Cleo's actresses' really don't look or sound all that similar, but the film treats them as if they're identical.
23* {{Invisibility}}: Molly becomes invisible due to accidentally swallowing a moth made invisible by Cleo's experiment. It's contagious in the sense that, although a change of cloths are visible, eventually the chemicals making her invisible will saturate whatever she's in extended contact with, making new outfits invisible as well.
24* JerkJock: Cleo suspects Carter to be this. Subverted, as he is actually nice, something that [[spoiler:Cleo eventually finds out]].
25* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Nikki]] is the only person in the group of friends who never finds out that Molly was invisible.
26* MutualEnvy: Cleo is jealous of Molly's popularity, and Molly is jealous of Cleo's intelligence.
27* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Cleo is surprised when Molly says that she's done with finding a way to turn her back to normal after falling in mud.
28-->'''Cleo:''' Come on, Molly. This isn't you. You're supposed to be the positive one.
29* PassionateSportsGirl: Molly loves lacrosse and won't miss a game even while she's invisible.
30* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: After believing they won't be able to cure her invisibility, Molly gets frustrated at her sister and temporarily abandons her.
31* RaceAgainstTheClock: Cleo has until midnight to make the antidote which will make Molly visible again, or she'll be stuck invisible forever.
32* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Mr. Perkins. He encourages his students to do their best, and when he was worried that he pushed Cleo too hard, he asked Molly (who was really Cleo in disguise) if Cleo was alright and made sure that she wasn't staying home because of his actions.
33* SiblingYinYang: Cleo is introverted and sarcastic, while Molly is the popular and outgoing sibling.
34* SkewedPriorities: At first, Molly cares more about going to school and her lacrosse game then trying to cure her invisibility.
35* StrongFamilyResemblance: Molly and Cleo supposedly look so much alike that they can flawlessly impersonate one another, even to their closest friends.
36* VisibleInvisibility: The audience can sometimes see Molly, even when the characters can't.

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