Line #29 Film/Trainwreck


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2	[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} We all know one]].]]
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4	-> '''Gordon:''' Girls, your mother and I are getting divorced. Monogamy isn't realistic. Say it.
5	-> '''Young Amy and Kim:''' Monogamy isn't realistic.
6	-> '''Gordon:''' Again!
7	-> '''Young Amy and Kim:''' Monogamy isn't realistic!
8	-> '''Amy:''' [voice-over] ''I didn't understand that word at the time, but now, I know '''exactly''' what he was talking about.''
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10	''Trainwreck'' is a 2015 {{romantic comedy}} film produced and directed by Creator/JuddApatow, written by and starring Creator/AmySchumer.
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12	[[TheDanza Amy Townsend]] (Schumer) is a [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl hard-drinking party girl]] in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, writing for a men's interest magazine headed by {{alpha bitch}} editor Dianna (Creator/TildaSwinton). When she's assigned to write a profile on notable sports doctor Aaron Connors (Creator/BillHader) and falls into a romantic relationship with him, Amy's forced to choose between the noncommittal lifestyle imprinted on her as a child by her cynical father (Colin Quinn), or start settling down like her dutiful sister Kim (Creator/BrieLarson). [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Vanessa Bayer]], Creator/JohnCena, Creator/EzraMiller, and UsefulNotes/LeBronJames (AdamWesting as himself) also star.
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14	''Trainwreck'' was a critical and financial success, grossing $140.8 million worldwide on a budget of $35 million, and it earned two Golden Globe nominations: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Schumer's performance.
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17	!! ''Trainwreck'' contains examples of the following tropes:
18	* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Kim --probably in her mid-late twenties-- is the step-mother of a young preteen through marriage. [[spoiler:She eventually becomes pregnant with Tom's child]].
19	* AdamWesting: [=LeBron=] James plays a heightened version of himself here.
20	* AlphaBitch: Dianna isn't a very nice person, even finding it ridiculous that Amy [[spoiler:is still mourning her father's death]] days after the fact.
21	* AmbiguouslyBi: Steven says quite a few questionable things regarding his sexuality, like making intentionally gay threats to a disgruntled filmgoer and describing Amy as if she were a man during sex.
22	* BestFriend: Nikki to Amy.
23	* ButtMonkey: How Dianna treats Nikki.
24	* TheCameo: Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/MarisaTomei ([[AsHimself as themselves]] playing characters) in ''[[FilmWithinAFilm The Dogwalker]]'', while Creator/MatthewBroderick, Amar'e Stoudemire, Tony Romo, and Marv Albert appear as themselves.
25	* DeadpanSnarker: Amy, which she gets from her father.
26	* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Amy and Kim's mother dies before the movie happens, and she's [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead never spoken ill-of]] by either.
27	* DisposableIntern: Donald's job at the magazine is pretty thankless.
28	* DumbMuscle: Steven is a nice, jacked up guy who happens to be as dumb as a brick.
29	* TheFashionista: Dianna is ''very'' obsessed with her appearance.
30	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: An inversion -- older child Amy is the foolish one, while younger child Kim is the responsible one.
31	* GiveGeeksAChance: Aaron isn't Amy's [[HasAType usual type]] ({{dumb muscle}} airheads) but she falls for him nonetheless.
32	* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Amy and Kim mostly get along, but they still often clash on certain things, like which retirement home to set up their father at.
33	* GoingCommando: Amy. A scene shows Amy and Nikki in the restrooom talking, while Nikki has a bright colored thong around her ankles, Amy doesn't have any underwear under her miniskirt.
34	* HappilyMarried: Kim and Tom, in contrast to hers and Amy's parents.
35	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Amy, as you could probably tell from the above image.
36	* HasAType: Before Aaron comes along, all of Amy's dates are {{dumb muscle}} airheads.
37	* HopelessSuitor: Steven is into Amy more than she's into him, which is ultimately what ends their relationship.
38	* TheILoveYouStigma: Amy may as well be ''actually phobic'' to the word "love."
39	* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Alistair, and to a lesser extent, Tom.
40	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Kim and Amy, respectively.
41	* MissingMom: Amy and Kim's mother is [[TheGhost never seen]].
42	* NiceGuy: Aaron and Steven are both perfectly decent guys.
43	* OldFashionedRowboatDate: Played with; one of Amy and Aaron's dates involves remote-controlled miniature speedboating.
44	* PosthumousCharacter: Amy and Kim's mother has already been long-dead by the start of this movie.
45	* RedOniBlueOni: Amy and Kim, respectively.
46	* RomComJob: Amy writes for a men's interest magazine, and Aaron is a sports doctor.
47	* RomanticComedy: ''Trainwreck'' follows all the beats of one, but with subverted tropes and ''lots'' of raunchy humor.
48	* TroubledSympatheticBigot: Gordon is politically incorrect as they come, but he's an ailing older man who loves his daughters.
49	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: All things considered, Amy is kind of an asshole, and she comes to realize this toward the end.
50	* WaxingLyrical: Lebron starts quoting "Gold Digger" in a DeadpanSnarker voice when Aaron talks about Amy. It takes him a minute to catch on.
51	-->'''Aaron:''' You're quoting Kanye?!
52	* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Amy is shocked to learn that, mid-sexual encounter, Donald is ''sixteen'']].

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