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Stars Creator/GillianJacobs, Creator/LeightonMeester, Creator/AdamBrody, and Creator/GaboureySidibe.

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Stars It stars Creator/GillianJacobs, Creator/LeightonMeester, Creator/AdamBrody, and Creator/GaboureySidibe.
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Stars Creator/GillianJacobs, Creator/LeightonMeester, Creator/AdamBrody, and Creator/GaboureySidibe.
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* LipstickLesbian: Most of the lesbian characters in the film are fairly effeminate.

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* LipstickLesbian: Most of the lesbian characters in the film are fairly effeminate.very feminine.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Sasha and Paige are this, although the former is gay (but it's never suggested she has feelings for the other; they're just really close friends). Things get complicated when the straight one finally starts up a relationship with a man that lasts, forcing her to be available to the other woman less often.

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Sasha and Paige are this, although the former is gay a lesbian (but it's never suggested she has feelings for the other; they're just really close friends). Things get complicated when the straight one finally starts up a relationship with a man that lasts, forcing her to be available to the other woman less often.
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Life Partners is a 2014 drama/comedy film following the friendship of two women, one who is straight and one who is gay, as their relationship changes after one of them enters a serious relationship.

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Life Partners is a 2014 drama/comedy film following the friendship of two women, one who is straight and one who is gay, a lesbian, as their relationship changes after one of them enters a serious relationship.
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* FriendshipMoment: In the third act, Sasha and Tim run into each other at a grocery store and have heart-to-heart about their recent struggles.

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* FriendshipMoment: In the third act, Sasha and Tim run into each other at a grocery store and have a heart-to-heart about their recent struggles.

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* TheBroCode: Sasha gets the wrath of Jen and Jenn when she starts dating Jenn’s ex.



* FriendshipMoment: In the third act, Sasha and Tim run into each other at a grocery store and have heart-to-heart about their recent struggles.
* FunTShirt: When they start dating, Paige’s one complaint about Tim is that he wears a lot of novelty T-shirts instead of dressing more professionally. She starts buying him button-up shirts, which he wears but eventually calls her out on during their first fight. [[spoiler: When she apologizes to him, Paige wears a VideoGame/PacMan T-shirt that says “EPIC FAIL” on the chest.]]



* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Mother Like Daughter]]: Paige and her mom are both stubborn to a fault. Paige realizing her mom is steamrolling her while shopping for wedding dresses leads to her realizing she picked losing fights with both Sasha and Tim.



* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real love interest.

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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Both of Sasha’s love interests (Vanessa and Mia) are deconstructions of this trope. They’re unemployed and arty to an impractical degrees, and they make Sasha realize she wants to be more mature. Sasha breaks up with Mia when Sasha wants to focus on job interviews and Mia wants to spend a week in Alaska doing Molly in an Igloo during a Music/TeganAndSara festival.
* MyWayOrTheHighway: Tim accuses Paige of this when she claims he lied about being on her side when he really agreed with their neighbor that a minor car accident was Paige’s fault. He says in Paige’s mind, everyone is either with her or against her, and if they disagree she kicks them to the curb.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real love interest.interest.
* OneSteveLimit: Sasha and Paige’s two friends are Jen and Jenn.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Paige and Sasha fight at Paige & Tim’s barbecue between the second and third acts.
* RightBehindMe: Paige tries setting Sasha up with her co-worker, Angelica, at a barbecue. When Angelica excuses herself to use the bathroom, Sasha lashes out, complaining about how annoying and boring she finds the other woman. Of course, the camera then pans to show Angelica was standing behind Sasha for most of the rant.
* SecondActBreakup: Paige and Tim fight shortly after Paige and Sasha's PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure, and Paige moves out of their house for three days.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: Sasha, Paige and Tim]]
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* BookEnds: The film starts and ends with Sasha and Paige playing out a mock 'road rage' scene.

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* BookEnds: The film starts and ends with on Sasha and Paige playing out a mock 'road rage' scene. Near the end, they have another one.
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* GayBestFriend: Sasha, a lesbian, has been best friends with Paige (who's straight) for years. However their friendship is tested as Paige gets into a serious relationship with Tim.
* HairyGirl: {{Discussed}} by Sasha and Jenn regarding Vanessa, who's never shaved at all "down there".
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The entire film plays with the trope, subverting it with the fact that Sasha is gay.

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* GayBestFriend: Sasha, a lesbian, has been the best friends with friend of Paige (who's straight) for years. However their friendship is tested as Paige gets into a serious relationship with Tim. \n Unlike many examples, Sasha's a full character, isn't stereotypical, has a sex/love life and their friendship is the center of the story.
* HairyGirl: {{Discussed}} by Sasha and Jenn regarding Vanessa, who's never shaved at all "down there". \n Jenn tries to drop this as a bombshell on Sasha, who already knows (with the implied implications for oral sex).
* HeterosexualLifePartners: The entire film plays with the trope, subverting it with the fact that Sasha and Paige are this, although the former is gay.gay (but it's never suggested she has feelings for the other; they're just really close friends). Things get complicated when the straight one finally starts up a relationship with a man that lasts, forcing her to be available to the other woman less often.

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* BookEnds: the film starts and ends with Sasha and Paige playing out a mock 'road rage' scene.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: the entire film plays with the trope, subverting it with the fact that Sasha is gay.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real live interest.

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* BookEnds: the The film starts and ends with Sasha and Paige playing out a mock 'road rage' scene.
* ButchLesbian: Sasha is a {{downplayed}} example. Though not so butch as some, she is the most {{tomboy}}ish of the lesbians who appear in the film, including both girlfriends whom she's with.
* GayBestFriend: Sasha, a lesbian, has been best friends with Paige (who's straight) for years. However their friendship is tested as Paige gets into a serious relationship with Tim.
* HairyGirl: {{Discussed}} by Sasha and Jenn regarding Vanessa, who's never shaved at all "down there".
* HeterosexualLifePartners: the The entire film plays with the trope, subverting it with the fact that Sasha is gay.
* LipstickLesbian: Most of the lesbian characters in the film are fairly effeminate.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real live love interest.

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* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real live interest.
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* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real live interest. \n---
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Life Partners is a 2014 drama/comedy film following the friendship of two women, one who is straight and one who is gay, as their relationship changes after one of them enters a serious relationship.
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!!!Life Partners contains examples of:
* BookEnds: the film starts and ends with Sasha and Paige playing out a mock 'road rage' scene.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: the entire film plays with the trope, subverting it with the fact that Sasha is gay.
* TheNotLoveInterest: Sasha is this to Paige. She plays a more significant role in the story than Tim, but Tim is the real live interest.
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