History Film / Hollidaysburg

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-->'''Petroff''': ...There's [[CrossesTheLineTwice so much I don't understand]] about that joke.

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame:

* UptownGirl: Heather's relationship with Petroff, although the movie ends with it still ambiguous whether their relationship will become romantic or remain an InterclassFriendship.

* ClassClown: Scott, which is very much the basis of his BigManOnCampus popularity and his most endearing trait. Heather making him go through his repertoire of impressions as their last farewell to each other is both a SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny and {{Tearjerker}}.

* {{Sidekick}}: Tori openly describes herself as having been one for Katie for her entire childhood and adolescence, and is only now trying to break out and become her own person.

* SelfDeprecation: One of the many ways this script comes off as meta -- Tori snarks at herself that she's been "underlining a lot more sentences in books", which almost feels the same as actually being a sophisticated and educated person. The unavoidably pretentious flourish of ending her final monologue with a quote from Creator/JohnUpdike gets undercut by her mentioning it's "one of the quotes she's underlined".

* FlyoverCountry: There's a lot of visual "ruin porn" in this movie, showing us the faded glories of the unfashionable and abandoned parts of the United States, and the angst of the young adults born and raised here who hope to escape to New York or LA. (Scott tries to defend the Altoona, PA area as the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slinky birthplace of the Slinky]]", which is a stretch -- the inventor was ''from'' Altoona but invented it while working in Philadelphia.)

* ThePlace: ''The Chair'' initially stipulated that, since it was partially funded by a grant from a Pittsburgh arts organization, the films not only be produced and filmed in Pittsburgh but also keep Pittsburgh as the in-story setting. Martemucci ended up bending this rule -- the title town of Hollidaysburg (a suburb of Altoona) is 100 miles away from Pittsburgh, and indeed her version of the story has the "big city" Tori is coming home for Thanksgiving from ''be'' Pittsburgh (she's a student at Carnegie Mellon), despite the fact that the romantic ruined warehouse Scott takes Tori to is the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Furnace Carrie Furnace]] in Pittsburgh. Martemucci said the serendipity of "Hollidaysburg" as a DoubleMeaningTitle was too good to pass up (Hollidaysburg is a hometown that the kids who went away for college will increasingly only ever see for visits on holidays).

This film has gotten renewed attention as of 2020 as a result of people revisiting Dawson's career and ''The Chair'' after Dawson's "cancellation" as scandals from his past resurfaced. Most fans of ''The Chair'' agree ''Hollidaysburg'' SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove and deserves to be talked about as its own thing outside of comparisons to ''Not Cool'', especially since the experience of ''The Chair'' drove Martemucci into a minor CreatorBreakdown a year later (leading to her changing her stage name).

The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}}, where Martemucci played the role of the traditionally trained film school student competing against Website/YouTube star Creator/ShaneDawson to make a movie from the same script. This film ended up OvershadowedByControversy that, despite unanimous agreement from film critics and professionals that Martemucci made the better movie -- and Dawson's film ''Film/NotCool'' being so offensive Creator/ZacharyQuinto withdrew his executive producer credit from it -- ''Not Cool'' won the popular vote by a landslide.