History Film / DownWithLove

* BookEnds: Catcher is first seen descending out of his helicopter onto the roof of the ''Know'' offices. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, he and Barbara fly away on the same helicopter to get married in Vegas.]]

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Barbara]]. It turns out that she [[spoiler: arranged the entire thing just to get Catcher to fall in love with her, manipulating and anticipating everything exactly for that moment]], and later [[spoiler: lured him in to applying for a job as her secretary to ask for another chance, in order to test his sincerity and maintain her dignity, while making it look like she's reluctant the whole time, and having even dyed her hair in participation of symbolic renewal]].

** Catcher's helicopter. It appears dropping him off at the ''Know'' offices when we first see him, [[spoiler:then it returns at the end when Catcher and Barbara use it to go to Vegas to get married.]]

* CreatorCameo: Composer Marc Shaiman appears during the end credits as the pianist during Catcher and Barbara's performance of "Here's to Love".

* {{Fainting}}: Due to misinterpreting part of a conversation she was eavesdropping on involving Catcher and Peter (they were talking about the length of their socks, she thought they were talking about... you know), Catcher's new secretary passes out after hearing Catcher say, "Don't forget, I've got two of them!"

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: In the hairdresser, Catcher states that Peter said - though he didn't - that Barbara was a brunette and did not sound like a blonde on the telephone. As we find out later in both senses, she was, and isn't.]]

* SplitScreen: The montage of Catcher ducking out on meeting with Barbara to meet up with stewardesses is filmed this way. By the time he skips breakfast she's so annoyed the line dividing them is shaped like a lightning bolt. then there's the later sequence mentioned above under DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.

** When Catcher calls Barbara to arrange their dinner date at Peter's, Barbara is in the midst of sunbathing and Catcher is doing a workout. ** Earlier, Catcher is eating a hot dog and Peter is talking about how he needs to pick up his dry cleaning. Catcher sees Barbara and decides to do it on Peter's behalf.

* HeroesGoneFishing: When Catcher calls Barbara to arrange their dinner date at Peter's, Barbara is in the midst of sunbathing and Catcher is doing a workout. Also earlier, Catcher is eating a hot dog and Peter is talking about how he needs to pick up his dry cleaning. Catcher sees Barbara and decides to do it on Peter's behalf.

* BigDamnKiss: A good number of them between Catcher and Barbara. The one at the end of the dinner scene between the two in Peter's apartment. [[spoiler:A few after Barbara's {{Infodump}}. And finally a few in the elevator at the end.]]

In 1962, aspiring author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down with Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international bestseller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block ([=McGregor=]), a reporter for ''Know'' magazine and a {{Casanova}} rivalling Film/JamesBond in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

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A 2003 RomanticComedy farce, directed by Creator/PeytonReed and starring Creator/ReneeZellweger and Creator/EwanMcGregor, that both lampoons and homages [[RomanticComedy romantic comedies]] from the late 1950s and early '60s, particularly ''Film/PillowTalk'' and the other Doris Day-Rock Hudson films of the era.

* ValuesDissonance: Mostly DeliberateValuesDissonance, considering it’s all a satire of early 60’s culture, but even in 2003 is wasn’t known to many that [[spoiler: having sex under a false identity]] is technically rape.

* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: Barbara]]. It turns out that she [[spoiler: Arranged the entire thing just to get Catcher to fall in love with her, manipulating and anticipating everything exactly for that moment]], and later [[spoiler: lured him in to applying for a job as her secretary to ask for another chance, in order to test his sincerity and maintain her dignity, while making it look like she's reluctant the whole time, and having even dyed her hair in participation of symbolic renewal]].

* TheOner:

* MistakenForGay: Peter, played by gay actor David Hyde Pierce.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Catcher has this to say upon seeing the GodivaHair beatnik chick: "And after being grounded for twenty-four days, this astronaut is ready to blast off!"

* FengSchwing: Spoofed with Catcher's apartment, which, among other things, has a hideaway bar that takes up the entire wall.

There is also a BetaCouple of Barbara's chain-smoking best friend and publisher Vikki Hiller (Creator/SarahPaulson) and Catcher's neurotic boss Peter [=MacMannus=] (David Hyde Pierce), who get drawn into the hijinks of Catcher and Barbara.

* LineOfSightName: Catcher's alias of "Zip Martin", via signs in a drycleaners.

** Includes an absolutely priceless ReactionShot from Ewan [=McGregor=].

* ChekhovsGunman: Gwendolyn first appears as the first of Catcher's girlfriends, which prevents him from meeting Barbara until the scene in the dry cleaner's. [[spoiler:She appears later when she ruins Catcher's plan by entering his apartment [[ChekhovsGun using the key he leaves out for his girlfriends]] and [[SayMyName using his name]]. She returns larter in the same scene to thank Barbara for what she has done for womankind, causing Barbara to [[BecomingTheMask Become The Mask]] and decide she doesn't want to be with Catcher.]]

Aspiring author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down With Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international best seller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block ([=McGregor=]), a reporter for ''Know'' magazine and a {{Casanova}} rivalling Film/JamesBond in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

Aspiring author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) arrives in New York to publish her book, ''[[TitleDrop Down With Love]]'', which encourages female empowerment through chocolate and casual sex. It becomes an international best seller, even edging out a biography of John F. Kennedy, and millions of women everywhere buy it and start learning from its precepts. This does not sit well with the majority of men in the world, least of all Catcher Block ([=McGregor=]), a reporter for Know Magazine, and TheCasanova rivalling Film/JamesBond in both suaveness and libido. After Novak calls him out for his behavior on national television, he hatches a scheme to get her to fall in love with him, thereby violating her own golden rule. She's already expressed her displeasure with him, so in order to get into her pants, he fabricates the persona of a country-boy astronaut who has just touched back down to earth, and as such has no idea of her book or her identity.

A 2003 RomanticComedy farce, directed by Creator/PeytonReed and starring Creator/ReneeZellweger and Creator/EwanMcGregor, that lampoons [[RomanticComedy romantic comedies]] from the late 1950s and early '60s, particularly ''Film/PillowTalk'' and the other Doris Day-Rock Hudson films of the era.