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* MistakenForIncest: The entire plot involves two lovers whose relationship comes to an abrupt halt when a private detective tells them that they're long-lost siblings. When the guy finds out that the detective was mistaken, he sets off on a quest to find the girl, who has since moved to a different town.
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* AbusiveParents: As though Valdine trying to get Jo to marry someone for money wasn't bad enough, after [[spoiler:Leon is revealed to have killed a man and come to the wedding, she starts beating him for ruining her plans]].
* AnArmAndALeg: Dig lost both of his legs in a plane crash and uses prosthetics.
* AnArmAndALeg: Dig lost both of his legs in a plane crash and uses prosthetics.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Leon might appear to be a friendly person who just wants to know his birth family, but he [[spoiler:ultimately rams a truck and accidentally kills a man in order to please his mother]].
* EveryoneHasStandards: Walter [[spoiler:went along with Valdine's plans at first, but seeing Jo so sad about Gilly's apparent death drives him to admit the truth]].
* GoldDigger: Valdine's goal is to get access to Jack Mitchelson's money.
* GoldDigger: Valdine's goal is to get access to Jack Mitchelson's money.
* LoveObstructingParents: Valdine wants Jo to marry the wealthy Jack Mitchelson over the poorer Gilly, and resorts to increasingly desperate methods to achieve this.
* MistakenForSuicidal: At the end, [[spoiler:Gilly sees Jo standing on the edge of a building with a gun and thinks she's going to kill herself, but it turns out she was just giving the one-gun salute to what she thought was Gilly's ashes]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When [[spoiler:Leon appears at the wedding, Walter admits Valdine's deception and Jack's assistant in faking the evidence that Gilly was Jo's brother, and Jo is left devastated and outraged at the revelation]].
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Gilly tells Jo that he bought her underwear and naked pictures from a pervert at the mental hospital without providing context (he just bought them from one of Jack's henchmen to stop him selling them to anyone else).
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jack Mitchelson is a scumbag pot dealer who hides behind the guise of a wealthy philanthropist.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jack Mitchelson is a scumbag pot dealer who hides behind the guise of a wealthy philanthropist.
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* SwappedRoles: Walter spends most of the film basically crippled by a stroke, but [[spoiler:the film ends with him back to full health and Valdine afflicted by a stroke instead]].
* ThatCameOutWrong: Gilly tells Jo that he bought her underwear and naked pictures from a pervert at the mental hospital without providing context (he just bought them from one of Jack's henchmen to stophim the other man selling them to anyone else).
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jack Mitchelson is a scumbag pot dealer who hides behind the guise of a wealthyphilanthropist.philanthropist; his reputation is so good that Dig has to praise him in public as he feels he can't trust anyone else in the town.
* ThatCameOutWrong: Gilly tells Jo that he bought her underwear and naked pictures from a pervert at the mental hospital without providing context (he just bought them from one of Jack's henchmen to stop
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jack Mitchelson is a scumbag pot dealer who hides behind the guise of a wealthy
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* AssShove: At one point, Gilly gets his hand stuck in a cow's rear end.
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* ThatCameOutWrong: Gilly tells Jo that he bought her underwear and naked pictures from a pervert at the mental hospital without providing context (he just bought them from one of Jack's henchmen to stop him selling them to anyone else).
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Dig declares that he will repay Gilly tenfold for giving him a lift.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Valdine has a tendency to ignore anything going against her own favoured perception of events; as an example, she immediately declares that Gilly is a charlatan grifter when she learns that he ''isn't'' her son, even though he would have hardly done all that if he'd known the truth.
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* SelectiveObliviousness: Valdine has a tendency to ignore anything going against her own favoured perception of events; as an example, she immediately declares that Gilly is a charlatan grifter when she learns that he ''isn't'' her son, even though he would have hardly done all that if he'd known the truth.
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* HiddenVillain: Jack Michelson is ultimately revealed to be the one who presented the fake evidence that Gilly was Jo's brother in order to lure her back to him.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Even as he prepares to marry Jo, Jack is carrying on an affair with Gina, his ex-girlfriend.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Even as he prepares to marry Jo, Jack is carrying on an affair with Gina, his ex-girlfriend.ex-girlfriend.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: The whole plot hinges on the idea that Gilly and Jo might be engaging in this.
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* SurpriseIncest: The revelation that Gilly might be Jo's biological brother comes just as they are about to marry.
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* MutlipleChoicePast: Dig claims that he has heritage to several different Native American nations.
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* MutlipleChoicePast: MultipleChoicePast: Dig claims that he has heritage to several different Native American nations.
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''Say It Isn't So'' is a 2001 romantic comedy starring Creator/ChrisKlein and Creator/HeatherGraham. It was produced by the Farrelly Brothers.
In the town of Shelbyville, Illinois, Gilly Noble falls in love with hairdresser Jo Wingfield. Unfortunately, just as they're about to tie the knot, a private detective shows Gilly proof that he is actually Jo's long-lost brother. Horrified at the thought that she had sex with her brother, Jo flees to Beaver, Oregon while Gilly tries to console himself with the fact that at least he apparently has a biological family. When it later turns out that Gilly ''isn't'' Jo's brother, he embarks on a quest to find her and bring her home.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: Dig lost both of his legs.
* MeetCute: Gilly and Jo first meet when Gilly goes for a haircut from Jo and she mentions that her cat is missing, and her description of the cat matches one that Gilly found at the animal shelter.
* MutlipleChoicePast: Dig claims that he has heritage to several different Native American nations.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jack Mitchelson is a scumbag pot dealer who hides behind the guise of a wealthy philanthropist.
* YourCheatingHeart: Even as he prepares to marry Jo, Jack is carrying on an affair with Gina, his ex-girlfriend.
In the town of Shelbyville, Illinois, Gilly Noble falls in love with hairdresser Jo Wingfield. Unfortunately, just as they're about to tie the knot, a private detective shows Gilly proof that he is actually Jo's long-lost brother. Horrified at the thought that she had sex with her brother, Jo flees to Beaver, Oregon while Gilly tries to console himself with the fact that at least he apparently has a biological family. When it later turns out that Gilly ''isn't'' Jo's brother, he embarks on a quest to find her and bring her home.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AnArmAndALeg: Dig lost both of his legs.
* MeetCute: Gilly and Jo first meet when Gilly goes for a haircut from Jo and she mentions that her cat is missing, and her description of the cat matches one that Gilly found at the animal shelter.
* MutlipleChoicePast: Dig claims that he has heritage to several different Native American nations.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Jack Mitchelson is a scumbag pot dealer who hides behind the guise of a wealthy philanthropist.
* YourCheatingHeart: Even as he prepares to marry Jo, Jack is carrying on an affair with Gina, his ex-girlfriend.
