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3 | ''The Prince of Tides'' is a 1991 romantic drama film [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on the novel of the same name]] by Pat Conroy. It was directed by and stars Creator/BarbraStreisand. |
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5 | Tom Wingo (Creator/NickNolte) a teacher and football coach in South Carolina, is called to New York to tend to his twin sister, Savannah (Creator/MelindaDillon), who has attempted suicide. There, he meets with Savannah's counselor, Dr. Susan Lowenstein (Streisand), with whom he recounts Savannah's and his own traumatic childhoods and falls in love. |
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8 | !! The Prince of Tropes: |
9 | * AbusiveParents: The Wingo children all suffer from the abuse of their father. |
10 | * AdaptationDyeJob: Sallie was a brunette in the novel, and Dr. Lowenstein clearly described as RavenHairIvorySkin. |
11 | * AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Dr. Lowenstein's therapy emphasizes childhood trauma and dream interpretation. |
12 | * BigBrotherWorship: Tom always felt that he didn't need to be strong since his older brother Luke, [[CoolBigBro who looked after them]] and even [[BigBrotherInstinct would defend the family against their father]] [[spoiler: and rapists]]. |
13 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Tom's stepfather is this. He appears to be a genteel and wealthy SouthernGentleman, but raises a bully and doesn't hesitate to hit Tom and threaten him and his family. |
14 | ** Tom's mother Lila in the book. |
15 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Savannah recovers and Tom returns home to his wife, leaving Dr. Lowenstein behind.]] |
16 | * BrokenBird: Savannah, after a childhood of abuse from her father [[spoiler: and the rape she experienced with her twin brother and mother]]. [[spoiler: In the novel, Dr. Lowenstein is one.]] |
17 | * BungledSuicide: Savannah goes into a coma, but does not successfully kill herself [[spoiler: Tom says this was not her first time]]. |
18 | %%* CompressedAdaptation: A necessity; the novel is quite the {{Doorstopper}}. |
19 | * DaddysGirl: Tom dotes on his three daughters. |
20 | %%* DeadpanSnarker: Probably easier to name everyone who isn't. |
21 | * DrivenToSuicide: Savannah ends up in the hospital due to a recent attempt which kickstarts the plot. |
22 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Tom remarks that there is nothing sexier than a beautiful woman ordering food in French. |
23 | * FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler: After Tom returns to South Carolina after his affair with Lowenstein, he goes back to Sally.]] |
24 | * FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Lowenstein enters into a romantic and sexual relationship with Tom. In real life, this would be a ''massive'' breach of professional ethics for a therapist, and Lowenstein could easily lose her license to practice as a result. |
25 | %%* GayBestFriend: Eddie. |
26 | * GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Sally's affair with a colleague and Herbert's affair with a fellow musician? Not nearly as sympathetically portrayed as Tom's affair with Dr. Lowenstein. |
27 | * JewishMother: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Dr. Lowenstein is one of these, which is {{Lampshaded}} by Tom. |
28 | * LastNameBasis: Very rarely is Dr. Lowenstein referred to by her given name, which is Susan. |
29 | * PolarOppositeTwins: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Tom is an energetic, snarky football coach and Savannah is a suicidal poet. |
30 | * PrecisionFStrike: Dr. Lowenstein gets a good one when she calls out a dinner guest for fucking her husband. |
31 | * [[spoiler: RapeAsDrama[=/=]spoiler: RapeAsBackstory]]: Tom's recovery of his repressed childhood memory of this leads to a mental breakdown. |
32 | * RefugeInAudacity: Any of the pranks the three siblings pulled in their youth (which, sadly, are not in the film). This includes: kidnapping an albino porpoise from the Miami Seaquarium. |
33 | * [[SelfMadeMan Self Made Woman]]: Not mentioned in the movie but Sallie, Tom's wife, grew up as the daughter of impoverished mill-workers, worked her way through college on scholarship, and clawed her way up to a position as a prestigious internist. |
34 | %%* TheShrink: Dr. Lowenstein is a Type 3. |
35 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: Any time Tom verbally crosses swords with a woman, be it Sallie, Dr. Lowenstein, his mother, or Savannah. At one point, his mother [[LampshadedTrope offers to get him a spot at a comedy club]]. |
36 | * SouthernFriedGenius: In the novel Tom is consistently reminding Dr. Lowenstein that he graduated college with honors, with a degree in English, and was an English teacher, dedicated to "teaching Southern children to love the language they were born to butcher." In addition to being well-read, he's also a keen chef and loves classical music. And then there's Savannah, the famous poet, as well as Sallie, who's a prestigious doctor. |
37 | * StepfordSnarker: Tom states that laughing off one's own issues is "the Southern way". |
38 | %%* StrawFeminist: Dr. Lowenstein has shades of this in the book. |
39 | * SupremeChef: Tom is quite the cook. |
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