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* MistakenForGay: After several days of observing her grandfather's close bond with his invalid friend of the last forty years, Becca curiously asks if they're in a relationship. They laugh the suggestion off.
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* MistakenForGay: After several days of observing her grandfather's close bond with his invalid friend of the last forty years, Becca curiously asks if they're in a relationship. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny They laugh the suggestion off.]]
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---> '''Mitch''': You wanna know what I dreamed last night?
---> '''Einar''': What?
---> '''Mitch''': I dreamed you weren't such a miserable son of a bitch.
---> '''Einar''': What?
---> '''Mitch''': I dreamed you weren't such a miserable son of a bitch.
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---> '''Einar''': What?
---> '''Mitch''':
'''Einar:''' What?\\
'''Mitch:''' I dreamed you weren't such a miserable son of a bitch.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Einar is a widower in the original novel but in the film, his wife left him due to his ExcessiveMourning for their son.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Einar is a widower in the original novel but in the film, his wife left him due to his ExcessiveMourning for their son.son.
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* GriefInducedSplit: Einar's wife left him due to his ExcessiveMourning over their son's death in a traffic accident.
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Jean was pregnant when her husband died in a car crash, and named her daughter after him. Her father-in-law doesn't learn this until ten years later.
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Jean was pregnant when her husband died in a car crash, and named her daughter after him. Her father-in-law doesn't learn this until ten years later.later.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Einar is a widower in the original novel but in the film, his wife left him due to his ExcessiveMourning for their son.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Einar is a widower in the original novel but in the film, his wife left him due to his ExcessiveMourning for their son.
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Jean Gilkyson (Creator/JenniferLopez) takes her daughter Griff and walks out on her abusive boyfriend (Creator/DamianLewis). They go to Wyoming to seek shelter from Jean's father-in-law Einar (Creator/RobertRedford), who receives them coldly due to blaming Jean for his son's death in a car accident. Einar is also acting as a caregiver for his ranch hand Mitch (Creator/MorganFreeman) after Mitch was badly injured by a bear. The bear is being kept in the town's makeshift zoo, while Einar watches it bitterly and Mitch feels sympathy for the animal.
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* GrumpyOldMan: Einar is almost seventy and is a cold and angry person for the most part. The people around him are pretty fed up with it and constantly urge him to change, mainly in a VitriolicBestBuds way.
---> '''Mitch''': You wanna know what I dreamed last night?
---> '''Einar''': What?
---> '''Mitch''': I dreamed you weren't such a miserable son of a bitch.
* MistakenForGay: After several days of observing her grandfather's close bond with his invalid friend of the last forty years, Becca curiously asks if they're in a relationship. They laugh the suggestion off.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Einar was emotionally destroyed by the death of his young adult son in a car accident ten years ago. Nina the diner owner also lost her daughter when the girl drowned as a preadolescent.
* PapaWolf: Einar contemplates killing Gary and claiming that he was defending himself against a trespasser as soon as he learns that Gary is a threat to his granddaughter.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Jean was pregnant when her husband died in a car crash, and named her daughter after him. Her father-in-law doesn't learn this until ten years later.
!!Tropes:
* GrumpyOldMan: Einar is almost seventy and is a cold and angry person for the most part. The people around him are pretty fed up with it and constantly urge him to change, mainly in a VitriolicBestBuds way.
---> '''Mitch''': You wanna know what I dreamed last night?
---> '''Einar''': What?
---> '''Mitch''': I dreamed you weren't such a miserable son of a bitch.
* MistakenForGay: After several days of observing her grandfather's close bond with his invalid friend of the last forty years, Becca curiously asks if they're in a relationship. They laugh the suggestion off.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Einar was emotionally destroyed by the death of his young adult son in a car accident ten years ago. Nina the diner owner also lost her daughter when the girl drowned as a preadolescent.
* PapaWolf: Einar contemplates killing Gary and claiming that he was defending himself against a trespasser as soon as he learns that Gary is a threat to his granddaughter.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Jean was pregnant when her husband died in a car crash, and named her daughter after him. Her father-in-law doesn't learn this until ten years later.
