Follow TV Tropes

Following

History Film / AugustInTheCity

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ClosetGay: August and Clem were both closeted, secretly with each other but pretending attraction for guys two. When she got pregnant from her boyfriend, August and Clem's relationship ended, with her marrying him. She still hasn't come out many years later when her daughter's now grown.

to:

* ClosetGay: August and Clem were both closeted, secretly with each other but pretending attraction for guys two.too. When she got pregnant from her boyfriend, August and Clem's relationship ended, with her marrying him. She still hasn't come out many years later when her daughter's now grown.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* TomboyishName: August's daughter Ana says she's bringing home “Nic” after August assumes she'll be with a boy. It turns out that "Nic" is short for Nicole (though she's not actually a tomboy at all, in fact, while ironically Ana is fairly butch).

to:

* TomboyishName: August's daughter Ana says she's bringing home “Nic” "Nic" after August assumes she'll be with a boy. It turns out that "Nic" is short for Nicole (though she's not actually a tomboy at all, in fact, while ironically Ana is fairly butch).

Added: 85

Removed: 85

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Alphabetizing.


* LoveConfession: Clem confessed that she loved August in the past, who reciprocated.



* LoveConfession: Clem confessed that she loved August in the past, who reciprocated.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/august_in_the_city.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:250:Left to right: August and Clem]]
August finds that her daughter Ana has come home from college with a girlfriend. Surprised, it makes her recall her own relationship long ago with another woman during the late 1970s.

!Tropes:
* TheSeventies: August and Clem were secretly dating in 1978.
* TheBeard: August's husband, starting when they were just dating. Clem also pretends to find a guy attractive, saying they both "put up a front", secretly involved with each other at the same time.
* ClosetGay: August and Clem were both closeted, secretly with each other but pretending attraction for guys two. When she got pregnant from her boyfriend, August and Clem's relationship ended, with her marrying him. She still hasn't come out many years later when her daughter's now grown.
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: August is conventionally feminine, while her daughter Ana has quite the masculine style, dressing much like a boy with a ball cap, low-hung jeans etc.
* {{Flashback}}: After her daughter Ana comes home with a girlfriend, August remembers how she'd dated a woman named Clem many years before, which makes up much of the film.
* HereditaryHomosexuality: When her daughter Ana comes home with a girlfriend, August remembers how she'd secretly dated a woman years before, and is a closeted lesbian.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Ana is a soft ButchLesbian, with her girlfriend Nic (Nicole), being a LipstickLesbian. August, in both past and present, also had a feminine style. She once was with Clem, a woman who had more of a tomboy style.
* LoveConfession: Clem confessed that she loved August in the past, who reciprocated.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Clem's full name, Clementine, is only said once.
* SecretRelationship: August and Clem were secretly together years before, while both [[TheBeard pretended]] they were attracted to guys.
* SurprisePregnancy: It's indicated August married her [[TheBeard beard]]/boyfriend as a result of getting pregnant with their baby unexpectedly.
* TomboyishName: August's daughter Ana says she's bringing home “Nic” after August assumes she'll be with a boy. It turns out that "Nic" is short for Nicole (though she's not actually a tomboy at all, in fact, while ironically Ana is fairly butch).
----

Top