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* SwappedRoles: A meta example. The film was shot concurrently with ''[[Film/RichardIII1995 Richard III]]'', in which Creator/IanMcKellen plays the character in a decidedly superior position to Downey's; in this film, he plays Merivel's likeable country servant.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: At the start of the movie, young Dr. Merivel encounters a man with a hole in his chest due to an injury that enables people to see his beating heart (Merivel is the only one who dares to touch it), Later he encounters the man as a living exhibit in a private collection kept by King Charles II.
* GasMaskLongcoat: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a plague mask and long coat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: At the start, Dr. Merival is shown a man with an exposed heart due to a chest injury. He later visits a room of scientific curios kept by the King, and is dumbfounded to see the same man sitting on a chair as one of the exhibits.
* GasMaskLongcoat: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a plague mask and long coat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: At the start, Dr. Merival is shown a man with an exposed heart due to a chest injury. He later visits a room of scientific curios kept by the King, and is dumbfounded to see the same man sitting on a chair as one of the exhibits.
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* CollectorOfTheStrange: At the start of the movie, young Dr. Merivel encounters a man with a hole in his chest due to an injury that enables people to see his beating heart (Merivel is the only one who dares to touch it), Later he encounters the man as a living exhibit in a private collection kept by King Charles II.
* GasMaskLongcoat: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a plague mask and long coat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: At the start, Dr. Merival is shown a man with an exposed heart due to a chest injury.it). He later visits a room of scientific curios kept by the King, and is dumbfounded to see the same man [[LivingMuseumExhibit sitting on a chair as one of the exhibits.exhibits]].
* PlagueDoctor: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a period-accurate GasMaskLongcoat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* GasMaskLongcoat: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a plague mask and long coat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: At the start, Dr. Merival is shown a man with an exposed heart due to a chest injury.
* PlagueDoctor: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a period-accurate GasMaskLongcoat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
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The movie also stars Creator/SamNeill, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/PollyWalker, Creator/IanMcKellan, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/IanMcDiarmid, Creator/MaryMacLeod, among others.
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The movie also stars Creator/SamNeill, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/PollyWalker, Creator/IanMcKellan, Creator/IanMcKellen, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/IanMcDiarmid, Creator/MaryMacLeod, among others.
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A 1995 American Historical Drama directed by Creator/MichaelHoffman that has an exiled physician (Creator/RobertDowneyJr) helping the people of London and falling in love with an equally poor woman (Creator/MegRyan).
The movie also stars Creator/SamNeill, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/PollyWalker, Creator/IanMcKellan, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/IanMcDiarmid, Creator/MaryMacLeod, among others.
It was released on December 29, 1995.
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!Tropes for the film:
* CollectorOfTheStrange: At the start of the movie, young Dr. Merivel encounters a man with a hole in his chest due to an injury that enables people to see his beating heart (Merivel is the only one who dares to touch it), Later he encounters the man as a living exhibit in a private collection kept by King Charles II.
* GasMaskLongcoat: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a plague mask and long coat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: At the start, Dr. Merival is shown a man with an exposed heart due to a chest injury. He later visits a room of scientific curios kept by the King, and is dumbfounded to see the same man sitting on a chair as one of the exhibits.
* OneWordTitle: '''Restoration'''.
* StripPoker: Sort-of example: Merivel stops at a roadside three-Card Monte game. Jump cut later, and he's nearly nude, having lost all his money and clothes.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Dr. Merivel is losing all of his money in a shell game and searching desperately for more. Katharine, his mentally disturbed wife, loudly shouts "My money's up my skirt!" much to his embarrassment. Sure enough, she then produces a coin from up her skirt. [[ObfuscatingInsanity And wins the game for him]].
The movie also stars Creator/SamNeill, Creator/DavidThewlis, Creator/PollyWalker, Creator/IanMcKellan, Creator/HughGrant, Creator/IanMcDiarmid, Creator/MaryMacLeod, among others.
It was released on December 29, 1995.
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!Tropes for the film:
* CollectorOfTheStrange: At the start of the movie, young Dr. Merivel encounters a man with a hole in his chest due to an injury that enables people to see his beating heart (Merivel is the only one who dares to touch it), Later he encounters the man as a living exhibit in a private collection kept by King Charles II.
* GasMaskLongcoat: The film features Merivel, a Restoration-era doctor, venturing out to tend to plague victims in a plague mask and long coat. The film won an Oscar for best costume design.
* LivingMuseumExhibit: At the start, Dr. Merival is shown a man with an exposed heart due to a chest injury. He later visits a room of scientific curios kept by the King, and is dumbfounded to see the same man sitting on a chair as one of the exhibits.
* OneWordTitle: '''Restoration'''.
* StripPoker: Sort-of example: Merivel stops at a roadside three-Card Monte game. Jump cut later, and he's nearly nude, having lost all his money and clothes.
* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Dr. Merivel is losing all of his money in a shell game and searching desperately for more. Katharine, his mentally disturbed wife, loudly shouts "My money's up my skirt!" much to his embarrassment. Sure enough, she then produces a coin from up her skirt. [[ObfuscatingInsanity And wins the game for him]].
