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* SeinfeldianConversation: Like many indie dramedies, Martemucci loves doing this -- a particular highlight is Angela and Courtney (played by Martemucci herself) derailing a conversation about the toxicity of Angela and Tori's parents into a debate about the proper way to pronounce the term "phyllo dough". Petroff and Heather's disjointed {{stoner}} conversations are another highlight, especially Heather interrupting Petroff's long-winded and obviously insincere woolgathering about his plan to make a fortune speculating on oil in North Dakota to [[CrossesTheLineTwice joke about her fetish for abusing children]].
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Like many indie dramedies, Martemucci loves doing this -- a particular highlight is Angela and Courtney (played by Martemucci herself) derailing a conversation about the toxicity of Angela and Tori's parents into a debate about the proper way to pronounce the term "phyllo dough". Petroff and Heather's disjointed {{stoner}} [[TheStoner stoner]] conversations are another highlight, especially Heather interrupting Petroff's long-winded and obviously insincere woolgathering about his plan to make a fortune speculating on oil in North Dakota to [[CrossesTheLineTwice joke about her fetish for abusing children]].
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* FullFrontalAssault: Trish, the old lady who's [[BerserkButton so ticked off]] by Scott peeing against a tree in her yard that she comes out to attack him with a baseball bat wearing nothing but a robe that is flapping completely open ([[FunnyBackgroundEvent while Tori is completely oblivious and texting with Katie in the car]]). Made even better by how, after she's driven Scott away, she casually greets her neighbor (played by co-producer Victor Quinaz) making no effort to cover herself up.
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* SeinfeldianConversation: Like many indie dramedies, Martemucci loves doing this -- a particular highlight is Angela and Courtney (played by Martemucci herself) derailing a conversation about the toxicity of Angela and Tori's parents into a debate about the proper way to pronounce the term "phyllo dough". Petroff and Heather's disjointed {{stoner}} conversations are another highlight, especially Heather interrupting Petroff's long-winded and obviously insincere woolgathering about his plan to make a fortune speculating on oil in North Dakota to [[CrossesTheLineTwice joke about her fetish for abusing children]].
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* GloryDays: Scott and Heather are both having an emotional crisis over the idea that they peaked in high school -- which, given the small and unglamorous community they come from, is pretty damn sad. A strong contrast to Tori, who is only just now coming into herself after spending high school as an invisible wallflower. For his part, Scott has a clear vision of the kind of JadedWashout he might become in the form of his older brother Phil, and is struggling over whether becoming Phil would really be such a bad thing.
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* BasementDweller: Petroff's living situation. Scott, in his desperation not to give up his old life and old social circle despite his parents moving to Florida, proposes that moving in with Petroff might not be so bad; Petroff gently shuts him down.
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* TheGhost: Scott and Phil's parents, who, unbeknownst to Scott, have already moved to Florida before the start of the movie.
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** Scott and Phil's parents, who, unbeknownst to Scott, have already moved to Florida before the start of themovie.movie.
** Also true of Petroff's mom, whom he lives with and has a strained relationship with but who never appears onscreen, apparently having a highly demanding job that keeps her out of the house (which it's implied contributed heavily to his issues).
** Scott and Phil's parents, who, unbeknownst to Scott, have already moved to Florida before the start of the
** Also true of Petroff's mom, whom he lives with and has a strained relationship with but who never appears onscreen, apparently having a highly demanding job that keeps her out of the house (which it's implied contributed heavily to his issues).
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* StrugglingSingleMother: Petroff's unseen mom.
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* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Scott and Petroff, although it seems like Petroff didn't clearly become the "loser" in their friendship until after he ended up not going to college due to his family financial issues.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The movie deliberately does this, ending without a clear resolution on any of the romantic arcs we've seen ([[RealityEnsues realistically enough]], since the movie took place over the course of only a few days) with Tori giving us a narration about how people change every day and the future is unpredictable. In particular, even though Scott and Tori have had sex, all the obstacles to their relationship Tori named are still present and it's unclear if they're going to maintain a long-distance romance or leave their hookup in the past. Heather also goes back to school at Penn State -- because her dad essentially forced her to -- with no clear answer on whether she's going to go through with her plans to drop out in the end, and if her OddFriendship with Petroff will blossom into anything more.
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* OddFriendship: Heather and Petroff's ambiguous romance feels like this -- nothing overtly sexual or romantic happens between them, and she seems to latch onto Petroff mainly because she feels safe around him because he has no expectations of her (having known him for years as nothing but Scott's loser drug-dealing friend).
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* OfficialCouple: In-universe, Scott and Heather used to be this and their breakup shakes up their whole social circle. Scott and Tori become the OfficialCouple of the movie, with Heather and Petroff the BetaCouple.
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* OnlyInFlorida: We get a scene of Scott and Phil reading "Florida Man" articles to each other and joking about how they, too, will soon become Florida Men now that their parents have moved. We then find out that Tori's stepdad, Mitch, hails from Tallahassee and is every inch the Florida Man stereotype.
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* AdaptedOut: Scott's parents, who are relatively major characters in the original screenplay, don't appear at all in this movie, with Martemucci making the major change to the plot that rather than being ''about'' to move to Florida they ''already have'' moved to Florida, Scott's mother appearing only in the form of a voice on the phone. This script also completely removes the EthnicScrappy character of Fong (who became Shareef in ''Not Cool''), the party host, and replaces Janie and Joel with the CompositeCharacter Katie.
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* TheGhost: Scott and Phil's parents, who, unbeknownst to Scott, have already moved to Florida before the start of the movie.
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** Scott and Phil's dad, who never appears onscreen in the finished movie (but in DeletedScenes was voiced by Victor Quinaz, Anna Martemucci's husband and the real-life brother of Philip Quinaz). Scott came home partly because he was desperately looking forward to his dad's cooking, and Phil is obsessed with recreating his dad's famous pumpkin pie recipe. There's some obvious {{Subtext}} -- with Scott and Phil otherwise living off of takeout the whole weekend and having Thanksgiving dinner at a cheap restaurant -- that his sons' inability to cook for themselves represents their immaturity and inability to grow beyond their boyhood.
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* MeaningfulName: "Petroff" (Will Petroffsky) is the Slavic surname form of "Peter", which means "rock". Petroff's role in the story is to serve as Heather's anchor during her emotional crisis.
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** "Petroff" (Will Petroffsky) is the Slavic surname form of "Peter", which means "rock". Petroff's role in the story is to serve as Heather's anchor during her emotionalcrisis.crisis.
** Tori is given the surname of ''Humil''ovich, appropriate for someone struggling with her self-esteem.
** "Petroff" (Will Petroffsky) is the Slavic surname form of "Peter", which means "rock". Petroff's role in the story is to serve as Heather's anchor during her emotional
** Tori is given the surname of ''Humil''ovich, appropriate for someone struggling with her self-esteem.
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* TheNarrator: Tori. The BookEnds of the film are Tori's staring out the window of the bus between Pittsburgh and Hollidaysburg musing to herself in voiceover (and poking fun at herself over the FauxlosophicNarration).
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Toned down a lot from the original screenplay (to say nothing of Shane Dawson's interpretation of it in ''Not Cool''), but Tori's parents in this film are just as mortifying in their overbearingly WASPy repressed way.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Toned down a lot from the original screenplay (to say nothing of Shane Dawson's interpretation of it in ''Not Cool''), but Tori's parents in this film are just as mortifying in their overbearingly WASPy [=WASPy=] repressed way.
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* CreatorCameo: Writer/director Anna Martemucci shows up as Tori's future sister-in-law Courtney. (As a bit of a CreatorInJoke, Courtney has a vocal chord injury and doesn't talk much.)
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* TheQuietOne: Courtney, enforced on her by having apparently strained her voice earlier this week.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Toned down a lot from the original screenplay (to say nothing of Shane Dawson's interpretation of it in ''Not Cool''), but Tori's parents in this film are just as mortifying in their overbearingly WASPy repressed way.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Heather's dad [[BerserkButton lashes out furiously at her]] for her desire to "throw her life away" by dropping out of college and becoming a waitress at his restaurant, only for her stepmom -- whom he ''met while she was a waitress at his restaurant'' -- to innocently ask what's so bad about being a waitress.
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* ContrastMontage: Saturday, where we see Scott and Tori's "field trip" where Scott shows her around the scenic spots of her own hometown interspersed with Petroff making Heather help him out at work at the pizzeria so she can get an idea of what life after dropping out of college might be like. Doubles as a FallingInLoveMontage for them both.
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* ContrastMontage: Saturday, Black Friday, where we see Scott and Tori's "field trip" where Scott shows her around the scenic spots of her own hometown interspersed with Petroff making Heather help him out at work at the pizzeria so she can get an idea of what life after dropping out of college might be like. Doubles as a FallingInLoveMontage for them both.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Played with. Heather, who is half-Asian, is far from a nerd -- she was the most popular girl in school -- but she was known as the high-achieving [[SmartGuy smart girl]] that whole time, and everyone is taken aback by the depth of her transformation due to depression.
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* DescentIntoAddiction: It's mostly tongue-in-cheek, but Petroff expresses worry that by selling Heather weed he's enabling this trope for the former high-achieving princess.
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* EducationMama: Subverted. Heather's Asian mom is the one who just shrugs off the idea that she's dropping out of school, saying that she should take it up with her (white) father, who [[FantasyForbiddingFather becomes incensed at the idea]].
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* ColorblindCasting: Claire Chapelli, who plays Heather, is Latina (of Cuban descent), despite the fact that Heather's mom is Asian.
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* SleepingWithTheBoss: Both of Heather's parents were cheating on each other with someone who worked for them, and are now married to the person they were cheating with -- her dad with a waitress at his restaurant, her mom with the family auto mechanic.
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* ShutUpKiss: Tori interrupts Scott's attempted confession of love with one. [[spoiler: She may have been inspired by Katie pulling this on her the previous night.]]
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* SuddenlySexuality: [[spoiler: Katie, whose drunken jealous rant about how upset she is that Tori has abandoned her as a friend ends with a ForcefulKiss.]]
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* ImpossibleTask: Phil spends the weekend going down a bizarre rabbit hole -- possibly drug-fueled -- where, after having tried and failed to recycle the family's leftover Halloween pumpkins into a decent pie, he is obsessively trying to recreate his father's famous pumpkin pie recipe from scratch. After baking ''hundreds'' of pies until he finally succeeds, he breaks down and admits to Scott this whole quest has been a psychological proxy for his frustrated desire to become a father himself.
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* RealMenCanCook:
** Scott and Phil's dad, who never appears onscreen in the finished movie (but in DeletedScenes was voiced by Victor Quinaz, Anna Martemucci's husband and the real-life brother of Philip Quinaz). Scott came home partly because he was desperately looking forward to his dad's cooking, and Phil is obsessed with recreating his dad's famous pumpkin pie recipe. There's some obvious {{Subtext}} -- with Scott and Phil otherwise living off of takeout the whole weekend and having Thanksgiving dinner at a cheap restaurant -- that his sons' inability to cook for themselves represents their immaturity and inability to grow beyond their boyhood.
** To a lesser extent, Heather's dad, who, like her mom, made his fortune in the restaurant business and gets effusive praise from her stepdad Mitch for his contribution to their Thanksgiving dinner.
** Scott and Phil's dad, who never appears onscreen in the finished movie (but in DeletedScenes was voiced by Victor Quinaz, Anna Martemucci's husband and the real-life brother of Philip Quinaz). Scott came home partly because he was desperately looking forward to his dad's cooking, and Phil is obsessed with recreating his dad's famous pumpkin pie recipe. There's some obvious {{Subtext}} -- with Scott and Phil otherwise living off of takeout the whole weekend and having Thanksgiving dinner at a cheap restaurant -- that his sons' inability to cook for themselves represents their immaturity and inability to grow beyond their boyhood.
** To a lesser extent, Heather's dad, who, like her mom, made his fortune in the restaurant business and gets effusive praise from her stepdad Mitch for his contribution to their Thanksgiving dinner.
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