History Film / LostAndDelirious

%%* DownerEnding
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Paulie at the end of the movie.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Tori's sister and father onscreen, and her mother offscreen. Mary's stepmother is no prize either.

* MissingMom: Mary's mother died from cancer just a couple years before the film began, and she's clearly still in mourning. When relating what happened to Tori and Paulie, all three grow tearful. They give her the nickname "Mary Brave" as a result. She also reminisces about her mother to Joe, the gardener, helping him because her mother and Mary gardened together.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Tori's first name is really Victoria, but she's rarely called that. Pauline meanwhile is likely always called Paulie.

* LipstickLesbian: Tori, while Paulie is much more of a ButchLesbian.

* NiceGirl: Mary, who at times is Paulie's only friend and the SecretKeeper to both her and Tori, and who obviously cares deeply for both of them. Another of Tori's friends, upon hearing the rumor about Paulie and Tori, makes a pretty obvious hint to Tori that if Tori were gay it would be fine with her, which Tori unfortunately ignores
* NoBisexuals: Hard to tell. It is never explicitly stated whether or not Tori enjoys her relationship with Jake.

* QueerRomance: Paulie and Tori, two girls at a Catholic school, have to keep their sexual relationship hidden from everyone but their roommate Mary.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Paulie and Tori.

* WallBangHer: Tree. Tree bang.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Plenty of people watch only for the sex scenes between Piper Parabo and Jessica Pare.

* [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare Shout-Out: To Shakespeare]]: Paulie ''loves'' quoting Shakespeare, specifically Theatre/TwelfthNight (the "willow cabin" speech she delivers to Tori in the library), Theatre/{{Macbeth}} (the speech from Lady Macbeth about her blood turning to gall), and Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra (the speech about what love is).

* {{Gayngst}}: Tori realizes and admits twice (to Mary and Paulie herself) that her love for Paulie is something she's not likely to ever experience again. However, she cannot bear to face rejection from her parents and her peers, and so she pretends/forces herself to be straight in order to avoid the rejection

--> '''Paulie:''' you think I'm a LESBIAN?

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: [[TheLadette Paulie]] and [[LipstickLesbian Tori]], respectively.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Mouse does it in the book.

* BlatantLies: Paulie's stated reason for why she and Tori tend to end up naked in Tori's bed is that Tori has awful nightmares and that she's trying to comfort her. The first time she used this excuse, the person she's telling it to (Mary) already knows what's going on, and the second time the people she tells it to (Tori's sister and her friends) don't believe her

* CulturedBadass: Paulie is an expert fencer with a trained falcon and a tendency to quote Shakespeare

%%* TheFilmOfTheBook: see above.

* GirlsLove: Paulie and Tori.

* LighterAndSofter: Paulie is ''just'' a PsychoLesbian in the movie. In the book, however, she's [[VillainousCrossdresser far worse]].

* ShoutOut: Paulie ''loves'' quoting Shakespeare, specifically Theatre/TwelfthNight (the "willow cabin" speech she delivers to Tori in the library), Theatre/{{Macbeth}} (the speech from Lady Macbeth about her blood turning to gall), and Theatre/AntonyAndCleopatra (the speech about what love is)

%%* DrivenToSuicide: Paulie.

* JerkAss: Tori's sister and father onscreen, and her mother offscreen. Mary's stepmother is no prize either.

* LipstickLesbian: Tori, Paulie to a lesser extent especially when she [[spoiler: tries to become more masculine to get Tori back.]]

* ShoutOut: Paulie ''loves'' quoting Shakespeare, specifically TwelfthNight (the "willow cabin" speech she delivers to Tori in the library), {{Macbeth}} (the speech from Lady Macbeth about her blood turning to gall), and AntonyAndCleopatra (the speech about what love is)

* DownerEnding
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: Paulie.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: see above.

* [[spoiler:StarCrossedLovers]]: [[spoiler: Paulie and Tori.]]

* DownerEnding

** Paulie: you think I'm a LESBIAN?
** Mouse: You're a girl in love with a girl, aren't you?
** Paulie: No! I'm PAULIE in love with TORI. Remember? And Tori, she is, she IS in love with me because she is mine and I am hers and neither of us are LESBIANS!

* ShoutOut: Paulie ''loves'' quoting Shakespeare, specifically TwelthNight (the "willow cabin" speech she delivers to Tori in the library), {{Macbeth}} (the speech from Lady Macbeth about her blood turning to gall), and AntonyAndCleopatra (the speech about what love is)

* CanadaEh: Where the film is set, presumably, according to the reference to [=McGill=] University and several characters' accents.

* {{Gayngst}}

* PragmaticAdaptation: Several peripheral characters from the book were removed, for example.

Paulie: you think I'm a LESBIAN?
Mouse: You're a girl in love with a girl, aren't you?
Paulie: No! I'm PAULIE in love with TORI. Remember? And Tori, she is, she IS in love with me because she is mine and I am hers and neither of us are LESBIANS!

* PragmaticAdaptation: several peripheral characters from the book were removed, for example.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Averted; the book on which the film is based is much more disturbing.

* CanadaEh: Where the film is set, presumably, according to the reference to McGill University and several characters' accents.

* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]: Paulie

!!Contains Examples Of

* [=~If It's You, It's Okay~=]: Paulie claims that she and Tori are not lesbians but are simply in love with each other.

* [=~If It's You, It's Okay~=]: Paulie claims that she and Tori are not lesbians but are simply in love with each other. YourMileageMayVary as to how true this claim is.