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** Shortly afterwards, Patrick sees Lee's pictures and starts figuring out the source of Lee's trauma, but by that point, Lee's decided that it's just too painful for him to keep living in Manchester.
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** Shortly afterwards, Patrick sees Lee's pictures and starts figuring out the source of actually empathizing with Lee's trauma, trauma and deteriorating mental state, but by that point, Lee's decided that it's just too painful for him to keep living in Manchester.
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* CringeComedy: Patrick's dinner with his mother and her fiance is so uncomfortable it's laughable.
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* CringeComedy: Much of the humor comes from clearly uncomfortable characters doing the worst possible thing to help each other relax. Patrick's dinner with his mother and her fiance in particular is so uncomfortable it's laughable.laughable, as they both repeatedly make him uncomfortable with how over-the-top they're trying to make him comfortable.
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* HopeSpot: Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick, and he even finds some fancy and rare guns to sell so that Patrick can get a new motor for Joe's boat. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, has a horrible nightmare, and nearly causes a fire.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Patrick. His girlfriends also count.
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Patrick. His girlfriends also count.
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* HopeSpot: HopeSpot:
** Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick, and he even finds some fancy and rare guns to sell so that Patrick can get a new motor for Joe's boat. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, has a horrible nightmare, and nearly causes afire.
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** Shortly afterwards, Patrick sees Lee's pictures and starts figuring out the source of Lee's trauma, but by that point, Lee's decided that it's just too painful for him to keep living in Manchester.
* HormoneAddledTeenager:Patrick.Patrick, who's going out with two girls behind each others' backs and keeps trying to come up with ways to have sex with them. His girlfriends also count.
** Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick, and he even finds some fancy and rare guns to sell so that Patrick can get a new motor for Joe's boat. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, has a horrible nightmare, and nearly causes a
** Shortly afterwards, Patrick sees Lee's pictures and starts figuring out the source of Lee's trauma, but by that point, Lee's decided that it's just too painful for him to keep living in Manchester.
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* MrFanservice: Patrick is a quite attractive hockey player, who gets shown in various states of undress.
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* MrFanservice: Patrick is a quite attractive hockey player, who gets shown in various states of undress. Lee is a subversion; while he's classically handsome and gets lots of female attention his EmptyShell personality makes him hard to relate to.
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* PushoverParents: Kind of. Patrick was allowed to have his girlfriend over, and Sandy's mom lets Patrick be alone with her daughter, in Sandy's bedroom.
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* PushoverParents: Kind of. Patrick was allowed to have his girlfriend over, and Sandy's mom lets Patrick be alone with her daughter, in Sandy's bedroom.bedroom, although he complains that she regularly interrupts them before they can have sex.
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* TraumaButton: Patrick breaks down into a panic attack after looking at the contents of his freezer.
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* TraumaButton: Patrick is troubled by the thought of his dad's corpse having to be put in a freezer until the ground thaws enough to bury him, and breaks down into a panic attack after looking at the contents of his freezer.
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* NiceGuy: George, who supports and takes care of Lee throughout the film and mentors Patrick, [[spoiler:and eventually accepts guardianship for him.]]
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* NiceGuy: Joe Chandler, who in flashbacks is a constant supportive presence in Lee's life and to everyone around him, and George, who supports and takes care of Lee throughout the film and mentors Patrick, [[spoiler:and eventually accepts guardianship for him.]]]] Notably, when Lee starts a barfight in Manchester and everyone there is more than ready to seemingly beat him halfway to death, George has some success defusing the situation by trying to remind everyone that, whatever they think of him, he's "Joey Chandler's brother."
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* AmbiguousSituation: Did Lee's party in the backstory actually feature [[spoiler: marijuana and cocaine, or did he just throw that in because he wanted the police to arrest him]]?
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* BarBrawl: Twice do we see Lee picking fights in a pub for no reason other than self-loathing.
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* BarBrawl: Twice do we see Lee picking fights in a pub for no reason other than self-loathing.
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* HopeSpot: Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick, and he even [[spoiler: finds some fancy and rare guns to sell so that Patrick can get a new motor for Joe's boat]]. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, has a horrible nightmare, and nearly causes a fire.
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* HopeSpot: Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick, and he even [[spoiler: finds some fancy and rare guns to sell so that Patrick can get a new motor for Joe's boat]].boat. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, has a horrible nightmare, and nearly causes a fire.
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* HopeSpot: Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, later he has a horrible nightmare and nearly causes a fire.
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* HopeSpot: Lee seems to be getting mildly better as he interacts with Patrick.Patrick, and he even [[spoiler: finds some fancy and rare guns to sell so that Patrick can get a new motor for Joe's boat]]. Then he runs into Randi who tries to reconnect and apologize. Lee does not take it well and immediately gets himself into a bar fight, later he has a horrible nightmare nightmare, and nearly causes a fire.
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Averted. Characters are constantly talking at the same time, pausing, restarting, interrupting, grasping for the right word, and generally sounding realistically inarticulate. It helps to contribute to a sense of awkwardness and difficulty connecting that plagues Lee's life.
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* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Averted. Characters are constantly talking at the same time, pausing, restarting, interrupting, grasping for the right word, and generally sounding realistically inarticulate. It helps to contribute to a sense of awkwardness and difficulty connecting that plagues Lee's life. [[spoiler: Lee and Randi's brief reunion is an excellent example of how an aversion can really add to a scene.]]
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* MissingMom: By the time of his father's death, Patrick's mother has long disappeared.
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* MissingMom: By the time of his father's death, Patrick's mother has long disappeared. [[spoiler: It turns out she's reached out and he's in contact with her. Unfortunately, he dramatically overestimates the extent to which she's changed.]]
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* BerserkButton: Lee does ''not'' take it well when a bystander ([[CreatorCameo Kenneth Lonergan]]) makes a snarky comment about his parenting skills after Lee snaps at Patrick in public.
