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* OneSteveLimit: Lenny is the film's protagonist and the boys' father. Leni is the man's girlfriend, though you might not be able to tell [[NamesTheSame by the pronunciation.]] [[invoked]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Lenny is the film's protagonist and the boys' father. Leni is the man's girlfriend, though you might not be able to tell [[NamesTheSame [[ItsPronouncedTropay by the pronunciation.]] [[invoked]]
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* AdultFear: A major tone shift happens when the boys essentially go comatose from ingesting Lenny's sleeping pills. Lenny is, understandably, terrified during this time.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The exact nature of Lenny and Leni's relationship is undefined, though he does hook up with a random girl at the bar during a time where she probably considered them together.
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Typical to the Safdie brothers' style, this trope is [[AvertedTrope averted]]. ''Daddy Longlegs'' is classifiable as mumblecore because of the realism and interruptions in its dialogue.
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* OneSteveLimit: Lenny is the film's protagonist and the boys' father. Leni is the man's girlfriend, though you might not be able to tell [[NamesTheSame by the pronunciation.]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Lenny is the film's protagonist and the boys' father. Leni is the man's girlfriend, though you might not be able to tell [[NamesTheSame by the pronunciation.]]]] [[invoked]]
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* OneSteveLimit: Lenny is the film's protagonist and the boys' father. Leni is the man's girlfriend, though you might not be able to tell [[NamesTheSame by the pronunciation.]]
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* MayDecemberRomance: The middle-aged, greying Lenny appears to be in a relationship with the young, freckled Leni.
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* DreamSequence: Lenny dreams towards the end of the movie that a giant mosquito was sucking his blood as he slept.
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* TheCameo: Benny Safdie gets a brief cameo as one of the theater projection workers.
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* BlatantLies: Lenny telling a homeless man that he has no money, only to do a handstand a couple seconds later that sends a rain of change out from his pockets.
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* YourCheatingHeart: The exact nature of Lenny and Leni's relationship is undefined, though he does hook up with a random girl at the bar during a time where she probably considered them together.
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->''"It's my screw up. I'm entitled to screw up."''
-->-'''Lenny'''
''Daddy Longlegs'' is the first directorial collaboration by Creator/TheSafdieBrothers[[labelnote:*]]Josh had his individual debut with ''Film/ThePleasureOfBeingRobbed'' a year prior[[/labelnote]]. It's an indie {{Dramedy}} with a limited festival run in 2009 before a wider release in 2010.
The film unfolds with laser focus on Lenny (Creator/RonaldBronstein), a divorcee in [[UsefulNotes/NewYork the Big Apple]], during a two-week arranged custody of his elementary-aged sons. Juggling his job as a theater projectionist, two hyperactive young boys and a stale relationship, the demands Lenny must rise to meet become progressively more stressful to fill. The Safdies themselves based it loosely on experiences they'd had with their father in New York as children.
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!!Tropes present:
* AdultFear: A major tone shift happens when the boys essentially go comatose from ingesting Lenny's sleeping pills. Lenny is, understandably, terrified during this time.
* AntiHero: Lenny spends most of the film this way, engaging in irresponsible parenting practices such as leaving his kids alone outside of their school for progressively longer periods of time. [[spoiler:By the movie's end, he's arguably become a VillainProtagonist.]]
* BlackComedy: Lenny's BumblingDad tendencies are typically played for laughs, [[CerebusSyndrome at least at the start.]]
* BumblingDad: The struggles to maintain a job and an already unstable relationship as a divorced father during your brief custody period leaves Lenny doing bumbling things like walking to pick up his kids from school with three ice-cream cones melting in one hand.
* CerebusSyndrome: The movie is a great example of a slow-burning character study, as Lenny goes from a lovable, if inadequate, father figure at the film's beginning to [[spoiler:a self-serving psychopath who kidnaps his own children because they're the only thing left in his life that makes him happy]].
* TheKindnapper: [[spoiler:Lenny ultimately becomes this in the end, kidnapping his own children from their mother's caretaker, hastily moving out of his own apartment to avoid being found, and forcing his children onto an aerial tramway to escape. He does this while still acting normally, if a little more urgently, because he simply wants his children to be a part of his life.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The whole film is shot guerrilla-style, with the action in many takes having fizzled out long before a cut. A notable example is the final shot of the movie, which lingers on a tramway [[spoiler:as Lenny takes his kids far away from their mother's custody.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Two young boys buying groceries without accompaniment of a guardian, a man carrying a fridge backpack-style onto a tramway, you name it.
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->''"It's my screw up. I'm entitled to screw up."''
-->-'''Lenny'''
''Daddy Longlegs'' is the first directorial collaboration by Creator/TheSafdieBrothers[[labelnote:*]]Josh had his individual debut with ''Film/ThePleasureOfBeingRobbed'' a year prior[[/labelnote]]. It's an indie {{Dramedy}} with a limited festival run in 2009 before a wider release in 2010.
The film unfolds with laser focus on Lenny (Creator/RonaldBronstein), a divorcee in [[UsefulNotes/NewYork the Big Apple]], during a two-week arranged custody of his elementary-aged sons. Juggling his job as a theater projectionist, two hyperactive young boys and a stale relationship, the demands Lenny must rise to meet become progressively more stressful to fill. The Safdies themselves based it loosely on experiences they'd had with their father in New York as children.
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!!Tropes present:
* AdultFear: A major tone shift happens when the boys essentially go comatose from ingesting Lenny's sleeping pills. Lenny is, understandably, terrified during this time.
* AntiHero: Lenny spends most of the film this way, engaging in irresponsible parenting practices such as leaving his kids alone outside of their school for progressively longer periods of time. [[spoiler:By the movie's end, he's arguably become a VillainProtagonist.]]
* BlackComedy: Lenny's BumblingDad tendencies are typically played for laughs, [[CerebusSyndrome at least at the start.]]
* BumblingDad: The struggles to maintain a job and an already unstable relationship as a divorced father during your brief custody period leaves Lenny doing bumbling things like walking to pick up his kids from school with three ice-cream cones melting in one hand.
* CerebusSyndrome: The movie is a great example of a slow-burning character study, as Lenny goes from a lovable, if inadequate, father figure at the film's beginning to [[spoiler:a self-serving psychopath who kidnaps his own children because they're the only thing left in his life that makes him happy]].
* TheKindnapper: [[spoiler:Lenny ultimately becomes this in the end, kidnapping his own children from their mother's caretaker, hastily moving out of his own apartment to avoid being found, and forcing his children onto an aerial tramway to escape. He does this while still acting normally, if a little more urgently, because he simply wants his children to be a part of his life.]]
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The whole film is shot guerrilla-style, with the action in many takes having fizzled out long before a cut. A notable example is the final shot of the movie, which lingers on a tramway [[spoiler:as Lenny takes his kids far away from their mother's custody.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Two young boys buying groceries without accompaniment of a guardian, a man carrying a fridge backpack-style onto a tramway, you name it.
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