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* CharacterTitle: The title is the names of the main characters in the film.


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* MultiCharacterTitle: The title is the names of the main characters in the film.
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Changing since it's unsaid if they're dead or what.


* DisappearedDad: Only Jack and Diane's mothers appear or are mentioned. This doesn't mean either one's dad is gone, but it's rather conspicuous.
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* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: Only Jack and Diane's mothers appear or are mentioned. This doesn't mean either one's dad is gone, but it's rather conspicuous.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jack masturbates in bed at one point, then calls Diane (or so she thinks) and tries to get her into cyber sex. It turns out to be Diane's twin sister Karen on the line. Diane later does it the same way too.
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* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: The film is about two lesbian girls in love dealing with the fact that one is a werewolf.
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''Jack & Diane'' is a 2012 horror film written and directed by Bradley Rust Gray.

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''Jack & Diane'' is a 2012 horror romance film written and directed by Bradley Rust Gray.

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Diane is an English girl living in the US with her aunt and twin sister. Having chronic nosebleeds, she runs into a girl named Jack who helps her, after which the pair fall for each other. However, it turns out Diane's hiding a secret that no one could ever have guessed...

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''Jack & Diane'' is a 2012 horror film written and directed by Bradley Rust Gray.

Diane (Creator/JunoTemple) is an English girl living in the US U.S. with her aunt and twin sister. sister Karen and their aunt. Having chronic nosebleeds, she runs into a girl named Jack (Creator/RileyKeough) who helps her, after which the pair fall for each other. However, it turns out Diane's hiding a secret that no one could ever have guessed...guessed...
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jack and Diane part ways, with Diane's affliction left unresolved. Plus it seems Jack is now infected. However, Jack gives Diane a cherished possessing, showing that she truly loves her.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jack and Diane part ways, with Diane's affliction left unresolved. Plus it seems Jack is now infected. However, Jack gives Diane a cherished possessing, possession, showing that she truly loves her.]]



* OutOfFocus: Diane's sister and aunt only appear in a couple scenes, while never gets developed. Jack's friends are more characterized than either of them.

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* OutOfFocus: Diane's sister and aunt only appear in a couple scenes, while never neither gets developed. Jack's friends are more characterized than either of them.

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* YoureNotMyFather: When Diane's aunt attempts to make her do something, she retorts that she's not her mother.

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* YoureNotMyFather: When Diane's aunt attempts to make her do something, she retorts that she's not her mother.mother.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: [[spoiler:The werewolf, which can only be said to somewhat ''resemble'' a wolf.]]

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* AnimalisticAbomination: [[spoiler:The werewolf, which can only be said to somewhat ''resemble'' a wolf. It's a very grotesque, vaguely lupine monster.]]
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* AnimalisticAbomination: The werewolf, which can only be said to somewhat ''resemble'' a wolf.

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* AnimalisticAbomination: The [[spoiler:The werewolf, which can only be said to somewhat ''resemble'' a wolf. wolf.]]
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* AnimalisticAbomination: The werewolf, which can only be said to somewhat ''resemble'' a wolf.
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* MonochromeCasting: All of the characters are White.

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* MonochromeCasting: All of the characters are White. This is rather unrealistic, as it's set in a big American city.
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* MonochromeCasting: All of the characters are White.

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Diane is an English girl living in the US with her aunt and twin sister. Having chronic nosebleeds, she runs into a girl named Jack who helps her, after which the pair fall for each other. However, it turns out Diane's hiding a secret no one could have guessed...

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Diane is an English girl living in the US with her aunt and twin sister. Having chronic nosebleeds, she runs into a girl named Jack who helps her, after which the pair fall for each other. However, it turns out Diane's hiding a secret that no one could ever have guessed...



* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Diane's condition is apparently meant to be lycanthropy, though it's far from clear in the film itself. Mostly she dreams of turning into a monster that bears only the merest resemblance to a wolf or any similar creature, it's not affected by moon cycles and never even clear if she's transformed.]]

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* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted, as the film shows that every time Diane gets her period the monster will come.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Diane's condition is apparently meant to be lycanthropy, though it's far from clear in the film itself. Mostly she dreams of turning into a monster that bears only the merest resemblance to a wolf or any similar creature, it's not affected by moon cycles specifically (but apparently it coincides with Diane menstruating) and never even clear if she's transformed.]]

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* QueerRomance: Diane and Jack's romance is the main through line in the film. They meet just after the beginning, and it develops across the film [[spoiler:until they break up at the end]].


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* QueerRomance: Diane and Jack's romance is the main through line in the film. They meet just after the beginning, and it develops across the film [[spoiler:until they break up at the end]].
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* GenreMashup: It's probably best described as a lesbian romantic drama/horror movie.


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* OutOfFocus: Diane's sister and aunt only appear in a couple scenes, while never gets developed. Jack's friends are more characterized than either of them.


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* ShoutOut: The title is from a song by Music/JohnMellencamp, although with the twist that here it's about [[QueerRomance two]] [[GenderFlip girls]].
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Diane and Karen, her twin, are completely identical.

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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Diane and Karen, her twin, are completely identical. They even sound alike, so Jack mistook Karen as Diane on the phone. Both dress very differently though, and have different hair color.
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* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Diane and Karen, her twin, are completely identical.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: If not love, at the very least Jack is drawn to Diane immediately on seeing her.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Jack's brother shot himself in the past due to his girlfriend leaving him.

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* DrivenToSuicide: Jack's brother shot himself in the past due to his girlfriend leaving him. She's still traumatized by it and mourns him, with a {{tragic keepsake}} of his (a tape that he gave to his girlfriend) in her possession.
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* DisappearedDad: Only Jack and Diane's mothers appear or are mentioned. This doesn't mean either one's dad isn't involved, but it's rather conspicuous.

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* DisappearedDad: Only Jack and Diane's mothers appear or are mentioned. This doesn't mean either one's dad isn't involved, is gone, but it's rather conspicuous.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jack masturbates in bed at one point, then calls Diane (or so she thinks) and tries to get her into cyber sex. It turns out to be Diane's twin sister Karen on the line. Diane later does it the same way though.

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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jack masturbates in bed at one point, then calls Diane (or so she thinks) and tries to get her into cyber sex. It turns out to be Diane's twin sister Karen on the line. Diane later does it the same way though.too.

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* ButchLesbian: A mild example. Jack, a lesbian, has short hair and wears boyish clothes at all times (except while swimming).
* CharacterTitle: It's named after the protagonists.

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* ButchLesbian: A mild example. Jack, a lesbian, has short hair and wears boyish clothes at all times (except while swimming).
swimming). Otherwise though she has none of the stereotypical traits.
* CharacterTitle: It's named after The title is the protagonists.names of the main characters in the film.



* QueerRomance: Diane and Jack's romance is the main through line.

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* QueerRomance: Diane and Jack's romance is the main through line.line in the film. They meet just after the beginning, and it develops across the film [[spoiler:until they break up at the end]].


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* ProtagonistTitle: It's named after the protagonists.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jack and Diane part ways, with Diane's affliction left unresolved. Plus it seems Jack is now infected. However, Jack gives Diane a cherished possessing, showing that she truly loved her.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jack and Diane part ways, with Diane's affliction left unresolved. Plus it seems Jack is now infected. However, Jack gives Diane a cherished possessing, showing that she truly loved loves her.]]
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Diane is an English girl living in the US with her aunt and twin sister. Having chronic nosebleeds, she runs into a girl named Jack who helps her, after which the pair fall for each other. However, it turns out Diane's hiding a secret no one could have guessed...

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Jack and Diane part ways, with Diane's affliction left unresolved. Plus it seems Jack is now infected. However, Jack gives Diane a cherished possessing, showing that she truly loved her.]]
* ButchLesbian: A mild example. Jack, a lesbian, has short hair and wears boyish clothes at all times (except while swimming).
* CharacterTitle: It's named after the protagonists.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jack masturbates in bed at one point, then calls Diane (or so she thinks) and tries to get her into cyber sex. It turns out to be Diane's twin sister Karen on the line. Diane later does it the same way though.
* DisappearedDad: Only Jack and Diane's mothers appear or are mentioned. This doesn't mean either one's dad isn't involved, but it's rather conspicuous.
* DrivenToSuicide: Jack's brother shot himself in the past due to his girlfriend leaving him.
* LipstickLesbian: Diane is a very femme lesbian, with long hair, feminine clothing and a girlish voice.
* LoveAtFirstSight: If not love, at the very least Jack is drawn to Diane immediately on seeing her.
* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Jack, who's a mildly butch lesbian, is drawn to girly Diane. They fall for each other and date, although it's a very bumpy ride.
* MeetCute: Diane bumps into Jack while trying to awkwardly borrow a cell phone, and then her nose starts bleeding. Jack is smitten at once.
* QueerRomance: Diane and Jack's romance is the main through line.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[spoiler:Diane's condition is apparently meant to be lycanthropy, though it's far from clear in the film itself. Mostly she dreams of turning into a monster that bears only the merest resemblance to a wolf or any similar creature, it's not affected by moon cycles and never even clear if she's transformed.]]
* RapeAsBackstory: It turns out Diane's sister Karen was sexually abused by some boys who had drugged her at a party.
* TomboyishName: Butch lesbian Jack has one. If it's a nickname, the film never says so.
* YoureNotMyFather: When Diane's aunt attempts to make her do something, she retorts that she's not her mother.

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