History Film / IDontFeelAtHomeInThisWorldAnymore

* LongList: Tony rattles off all the designs he can make in cappuccino foam, and the list never seems to end.

* HollywoodHacking: Parodied. Tony is revealed as utterly clueless about it, barely being able to use a browser in the first place. He still manages to track the van... [[spoiler: after Ruth gives her credit card number and pays a fee at some shady site]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: The people who have Ruth's computer are obviously sketchy people. They engage in drunken firework hijinks, and one of them seems to stand guard at their door smoking pot. They also must have known that the laptop they purchased was stolen property because all of Ruth's files were still on it. However, when Ruth proves that it belong to her by activating her "Find My Laptop" app, they're shamed enough to give it back, along with the power cord, and give her the address of where they bought it.

* FakeoutMakeout: Tony suggests it when he and Ruth are on the flea market, searching for fence's stand.

* StupidCrooks: Marshall, Dez and Christian Jr. are remarkably inept crooks and are told so to their face, though they are no less dangerous. This leads to rummaging through ''entire stack of bonds'' and ignoring them, in search for cash, but also [[spoiler: brutally and without any hesitation killing people that are in their way]]. It's made clear throughout the story they are outright too dumb to consider consequences of their actions, making the situation far more dangerous than it really is.

* MilesGloriosus: Tony obviously has an overinflated impression of his fighting abilities. He talks about training martial arts and owns a collection of hand weapons, including nunchaku, shuriken, and a morning star. He's very pedantic about their proper names, presenting himself as an expert. However, he's clearly not very good at using them. When he brandishes his morning star at a tough, the guy snatches it right out of his hand, leaving him gawking. He later chucks his throwing star into a wall as a means of intimidation, then struggles to pull it out again. He tries to save face by asserting, "''That's'' how hard I threw it!" Later, he manages to kick an man and knock him out, proudly proclaiming, "Side kick!" In the ride back home, he yammers on and on about how powerful side kicks are when properly performed, apparently heedless of the reality that the man he knocked out was quite elderly and didn't even see it coming.

* MisplacedWildlife: The snake is a Cottonmouth which is native only to the Southeast United States and wouldn’t be found in the wild within 1500 miles of Oregon. However Kudos to the filmmakers for avoiding the usual cliché of having the snake loudly hiss, rattle, or use a harmless snake and pretend it’s a venomous one.

* BavarianFireDrill: Christian Jr. enters a party and starts robbing the house, despite being in his early 20s, clearly looking out of place and everyone else being middle-aged. [[spoiler: He gets caught out, but by then, simply punches his way out of it]].

* CoolCar: Ruth drives a matte black 1979 Pontiac Firebird that looks like something an action hero would drive, though it's not in great condition.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Despite all the violence and deaths throughout the story, the surviving characters all receive some kind of happy ending: [[spoiler:Meredith escapes the shootout at the Rumack mansion unharmed and doesn't report Ruth to the police out of gratefulness for saving her life, Detective Bendix' wife decides to give their marriage another chance, Tony survives his injuries and stays friends with Ruth, and Ruth herself has finally regained her belief that there is some good in the world]].

* NoSocialSkills: Both Ruth and Tony lack any sort of social skills whatsoever, to almost dangerous levels. The crooks they are following aren't much better at this, either, but [[StupidCrooks that's another story entirely]].

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The locator app leads Ruth not to the actual burglars, but the people who bought her laptop from a fence.]]
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: The antiquated, half-rusted sawed-off shotgun predictably misfires in the worst moment possible. [[spoiler: And takes Dez's hands with it]].

* LongTitle

* CreatorCameo: Writer/director Macon Blair cameos as the man in the bar who spoils Ruth's book.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Played with when Tony uses his computer to find the owner of the van. He presents himself as a hacker and furiously types away while exciting music plays. When we see the screen, however, he's just googling how to look up that information and then using a website that charges to do it for you. All the while, he's espousing about how the internet is like a web of spiders, and Ruth notes that he's not exactly the first person to use that analogy.

* MeaningfulBackgroundMoment: When Ruth canvases the neighborhood for clues about the robbery, we see Christian Jr. ride by her on a bicycle, clearly scoping out future robberies.

* RacistGrandma: An elderly woman Ruth tends to makes vulgar and racist remarks about black protesters on TV just before she dies. Ruth then has to tactfully lie when the patient's son asks what her last words were.

* MeetCute: Subverted. Early in the movie Ruth sits a bar reading a fantasy novel. A man (played by Director [[TheCameo Macon Blair]]) walks up to the bar and sparks a conversation with her revealing that he is a fan of the book. The two start to bond before the man nonchalantly spoils an important plot point, collects his beer order and returns to his friends.

* PetTheDog: Tony is introduced as the first person to show any remorse for his thoughtless action. He apologizes and picks up the dog poop.

* AccidentalAimingSkills: Tony is just terrible with his throwing stars, so when [[spoiler: he gets one lodged in Dez face in the finale]], he's the most surprised person in the room.

* DontYouDarePityMe: While he's in the middle of a heated argument with Ruth, Detective Bendix suddenly starts sobbing uncontrollably, much to her bewilderment. He then admits that his wife wants a divorce, which is why he's been acting so abrasively lately. However, when Ruth expresses genuine sympathy for his plight, he rejects her attempts to console him and tells her to leave.

* KickTheDog: Christian Jr. is introduced giving the house he's robbing an upperdecker, after shitting into the flush tank. This establishes that he's not just a thief, he's an asshole as well.

* RacistGrandma: Ruth's patient demonstrates this [[DeathAsComedy right before she dies]].

** The Rumbacks' home includes a "[[Creator/HenryDavidThoreau Walden Pond]] room." Appropriately enough, they live lakeside.

* FamousLastWords: Parodied; the patient in the beginning [[RacistGrandma utters filthy and racist remarks about black protesters]] just before she dies. Ruth then has to tactfully lie when the patient's son asks what her last words were.

''I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore'' is a dark comedy/crime thiller written and directed by indie actor Macon Blair in his directorial debut. The film stars Melanie Lynskey and Creator/ElijahWood as Ruth and Tony, two loners who decide to strike back at the general indecency of the world after Ruth's home is burglarized.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Detective Bendix delivers one to Ruth when she accuses him of not doing his job properly, telling her with BrutalHonesty that the universe doesn't revolve around her, that she wouldn't have to worry about the burglary if she had simply locked her door, and that he has to deal with far worse crimes than the theft of some silverware. Especially since she retrived it herself.

* HollywoodHacking: Parodied. Tony is revealed as utterly clueless about it, barely being able to use a browser in the first place. He still manages to track the van... [[spoiler: after Ruth gives her credit card number and pay a fee at some shady site]].

* FakeoutMakeout: Tony suggest it when he and Ruth are on the flea market, searching for fence's stand.