History Film / InAWorld

* DoggedNiceGuy: Demetri Martin's character is a very straight example. He is painfully shy and awkward almost to the point of AmbiguousDisorder, but is patient and supportive as he waits for Carol to notice him.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Carol gets the coveted part, but is told that it was due to PositiveDiscrimination and not because she gave the best performance.]]

* PositiveDiscrimination: Carol is straight-up told that [[spoiler: she was given the part of voice-over in the ''Amazon Games'' trailer because she's a woman, not because she gave the best audition.]]

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Carol is a rare example of a MPDG as the main protagonist. Demetri Martin's love interest character is a RareMaleExample of Manic Pixie Dream Guy.

%%* {{Adorkable}}: Louis eats this trope for breakfast.

''In a World...'' is a 2013 American comedy film directed, written, and co-produced by Lake Bell. The film co-stars Creator/DemetriMartin, Fred Melamed, Creator/RobCorddry, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, and Tig Notaro. The film was a financial success, grossing nearly $3 million on a budget of less than $1 million, and received positive reviews from critics.

* AsHerself: Eva Longoria takes lessons from Carol to improve her Cockney accent for a role, and Creator/CameronDiaz appears in the trailer for the film adaptation of ''The Amazon Games''. Jeff Garlin is the host of the Golden Trailer Awards.

* YouGoGirl: Follows the formula near-perfectly, with the female lead entering a male-dominated field and beating the boys at their own game, but the field in question is a movie trailer voice-over audition instead of a sports competition.

* InAWorld: In-universe example. Creator/{{Don LaFontaine}}'s famous phrase is part of the trailer for the [[Film/HungerGames Amazon Games]] quadrilogy. Several characters compete for the voice-over job.

''In a World...'' is a 2013 American comedy film directed, written, and co-produced by Lake Bell. The film co-stars Creator/DemetriMartin, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, and Tig Notaro. The film was a financial success, grossing nearly $3 million on a budget of less than $1 million, and received positive reviews from critics.

The film stars Bell as Carol Solomon, a vocal coach intent on doing voice-over work for film trailers. She lives in the shadow of her much more famous father, [[StageName Sam Sotto]], and faces sexism from an industry that favors male voices, but presses on, reluctantly supported by her {{Workaholic}} sister Dani, and Dani's long-neglected husband Moe. Carol regularly does voiceover work at Sound Mix-A-Lot with its owner, Louis (who's long had a crush on Carol), and co-workers Heners, Cher and Nancy. When an opportunity finally arises to voice a series of movie trailers, Carol goes for it, only to find herself in competition with her father, and the man her father is mentoring, Gustav.

* {{Adorkable}}: Louis eats this trope for breakfast.

* BetaCouple: Dani and Moe.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Demetri Martin's character is a very straight example.

* InAWorld: Creator/{{Don LaFontaine}}'s famous phrase is part of the trailer for the [[Film/HungerGames Amazon Games]] quadrilogy. Several characters compete for the voice-over job.

* MayDecemberRomance: Carol's father and stepmother (who is slightly younger than she is).

* MissingMom: Carol's father is a widower; we don't hear much about her mom other than that she has (had?) various substance abuse problems and apparently OD'd.

* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Several of the voice actors at Gustav's party engage in this.
* PositiveDiscrimination: Carol is straight-up told that [[spoiler: she was given the part of voice-over in the ''Amazon Games'' trailer for this reason.]]
* [[RealWomenDontWearDresses Real Women Don't Talk Like Sexy Babies]]

* StrawMisogynist: Gustav. Carol's father shares many of the same attitudes but is more nuanced and, unlike Gustav, learns AnAesop by the end of the film.

* ValleyGirl: A few minor characters. Carol recruits them for her vocal training service to teach them to sound like "women" and not "sexy babies."
* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Carol is a RareFemaleExample.

* YouGoGirl: With movie trailer voice-over instead of sports.

* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Bestseller]]: Both the receptionist at Louis's studio and Carol's sister Dani are seen reading ''The Amazon Games'', setting up the fact that it's an immensely popular book and its movie adaptation (and, hence, its trailer) is SeriousBusiness. Also, the fact that "executives" liked her earlier trailer recordings points toward Huling's HannibalLecture to Carol at the end.

* [[ChekovsGun Chekov's Bestseller]]: Both the receptionist at Louis's studio and Carol's sister Dani are seen reading ''The Amazon Games'', setting up the fact that it's an immensely popular book and its movie adaptation (and, hence, its trailer) is SeriousBusiness. Also, the fact that "executives" liked her earlier trailer recordings points toward Huling's HannibalLecture to Carol at the end.

''In a World...'' is a 2013 American comedy film directed, written, and co-produced by Lake Bell. The film stars Bell as Carol Solomon, a vocal coach intent on doing voice-over work for film trailers. The film co-stars Creator/DemetriMartin, Fred Melamed, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins, Ken Marino, Nick Offerman, and Tig Notaro. The film was a financial success, grossing nearly $3 million on a budget of less than $1 million, and received positive reviews from critics.

* AsHerself: Eva Longoria takes lessons from Carol to improve her Cockney accent for a role, and Creator/CameronDiaz appears in the trailer for the film adaptation of ''The Amazon Games''. Jeff Garlin is the host of the Golden Trailer Awards

* InformedFlaw: Carol is told that her audition for the part of voice-over in the ''Amazon Games'' trailer was not the best of the lot. To the layman's ear, she sounds just as good as either of her two major competitors.

* PositiveDiscrimination: Carol is straight-up told that she was given the part of voice-over in the ''Amazon Games'' trailer for this reason.

* ShedTheFamilyName: A subversion, as the protagonist goes by her actual last name of "Solomon" to differentiate herself from her dad, who goes by "Sam Soto," presumably to sound less Jewish.