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* DumbBlonde: Played with. Olivia Honey may be ditzy, but she is a good secretary and helped Ruth get Bob get arrested for embezzlement; Bob is clueless as hell yet is a brilliant White Collar criminal and Mary Fisher is RichInDollarsPoorInSense but built up a literary empire.
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* DumbBlonde: Played with. with.
** Olivia Honey may be ditzy, but she is a good secretary and helped Ruth get Bob get arrested forembezzlement; embezzlement.
** Bob is clueless as hell yet is a brilliant White Collarcriminal criminal. He was only caught because he didn't get the keys back from Olivia when he fired her or change the office's computer passwords, allowing Olivia and Ruth [[spoiler:to make his embezzling more... obvious]].
** Mary Fisher is RichInDollarsPoorInSense but built up a literaryempire.empire, and maneuvered a contract where ''she'' gets to choose who publishes her books. This is impressive in the publishing world.
** Olivia Honey may be ditzy, but she is a good secretary and helped Ruth get Bob get arrested for
** Bob is clueless as hell yet is a brilliant White Collar
** Mary Fisher is RichInDollarsPoorInSense but built up a literary
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mary Fisher. She's from New Jersey, has the last name "Fisher", and Mrs. Fisher mentioned Mr. Fisher having been a "Kosher butcher from Hoboken" in life. In addition, in the FreezeFrameBonus mentioned above, Mrs. Fisher's maiden name is listed as "Hoffman".
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mary Fisher. She's from New Jersey, has the last name "Fisher", and Mrs. Fisher mentioned Mr. Fisher having been a "Kosher butcher from Hoboken" in life. In addition, in the FreezeFrameBonus mentioned above, of the magazine cover, Mrs. Fisher's maiden name is listed as "Hoffman".
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Mary gives one to Nicolette when the younger girl sasses her back, this is enough to give the normally defiant and disobedient girl to get out the room.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Mary gives one to Nicolette when the younger girl sasses her back, this is enough to give the normally defiant and disobedient girl the clue to get out the room.
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* UnwantedSpouse: According to Bob, it was a ShotgunWedding.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Nurse Hooper after she and Ruth start the employment agency? She's seen in a commercial advertising the service and that's the last she's mentioned.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Nurse Hooper after she and Ruth start the employment agency? She's seen in a commercial advertising the service and that's the last she's mentioned.
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* UnwantedSpouse: According to Bob, it was a ShotgunWedding.
ShotgunWedding. Ruth got pregnant, and his parents made him marry Ruth.
*WhatHappenedToTheMouse: WhatHappenedToTheMouse:** What happened to Nurse Hooper after she and Ruth start the employment agency? She's seen in a commercial advertising the service and that's the last she's mentioned.mentioned.
** Ruth ''blows up the house'' to remove it as one of Bob's "assets". There's never a mention of what the insurance companies, the police, the fire department, the DA's office, ''anyone'', has to say about an obviously blatant arson.
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** Ruth ''blows up the house'' to remove it as one of Bob's "assets". There's never a mention of what the insurance companies, the police, the fire department, the DA's office, ''anyone'', has to say about an obviously blatant arson.
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* WomanScorned: Ruth, obviously.
* {{Yandere}}
* {{Yandere}}
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* WomanScorned: Ruth, obviously.
Ruth. She's put up with Bob's fidelities for years, to the point of being able to say his favorite excuses word for word. She's taken care of the children and the home, and tries to look nice for parties when Bob has to bring his spouse. And Bob flips out on her for "embarrassing" him and storms off to live with his latest mistress.
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%% * {{Yandere}}
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Corrected detail. It was donuts (with chocolate and decorative icing), not cupcakes. There are several food porn style closeups
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* ShotgunWedding: Bob claims his marriage to Ruth was one.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mary Fisher, who dies of cancer in the book.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mary Fisher, who dies of cancer in the book.]]
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* ShotgunWedding: Bob claims his marriage to Ruth was one.
one. She got pregnant fifteen years ago, and his parents "made him" marry Ruth.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:MaryFisher, Fisher,]] who dies of cancer in the book.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Mary
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* StuffBlowingUp: Ruth blows up the Patchett household in order to make the kids stay with Bob and Mary Fisher at her "palace by the sea".
* TastesLikeFriendship: Ruth wins over Nurse Hooper by sharing her cupcakes.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Ruth wins over Nurse Hooper by sharing her cupcakes.
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* StuffBlowingUp: Ruth blows up the Patchett household in order to have a reason to make the kids stay with Bob and Mary Fisher at her "palace by the sea".
* TastesLikeFriendship: Ruth wins over Nurse Hooper by sharing hercupcakes.doughnuts.
* TastesLikeFriendship: Ruth wins over Nurse Hooper by sharing her
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The entire plot.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The entire plot. When Bob gave Ruth his Reason You Suck speech, he named four assets: Home, Family, Job, and Freedom, and called Ruth a she-devil and a liability. Ruth sets out to turn his assets into liabilities or losses; Bob helps her a lot with his [[spoiler:embezzling]].
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** Ruth. Since she's been a little mouse to Bob through the first part of the movie, he is shocked when she drops the kids off at the Fisher house after the loss of the Patchett home and she unloads on him on her way out.
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** Ruth. Since she's been a little mouse to Bob through the first part of the movie, he is shocked when she drops the kids off at the Fisher house after the loss of the Patchett home and she unloads on him on her way out.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Mary is having her interview with People magazine, the People photographer is taking pictures of Nicolette posing in a swimsuit.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Mary is having her interview with People magazine, the People photographer is taking pictures of Nicolette posing in a swimsuit. He's far enough away he probably doesn't realize her age.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Mary, when she becomes a "serious" writer and wears glasses. Whether she needs them or are PurelyAestheticGlasses is up to the viewer.
* MissingMom: As part of her plan, Ruth drops off her children with Bob and Mary and vanishes from their lives until the end.
* MrFanservice: Garcia, Mary's butler, is shirtless most of the time he appears.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Or the title for that matter. Being the "greatest evil to husbands everywhere" would count if Bob wasn't an ungrateful affair turning husband who only sees his family as a necessary ball and chain and only sees them when he needs to rest and eat.
* MissingMom: As part of her plan, Ruth drops off her children with Bob and Mary and vanishes from their lives until the end.
* MrFanservice: Garcia, Mary's butler, is shirtless most of the time he appears.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Or the title for that matter. Being the "greatest evil to husbands everywhere" would count if Bob wasn't an ungrateful affair turning husband who only sees his family as a necessary ball and chain and only sees them when he needs to rest and eat.
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* {{Meganekko}}: Mary, when she becomes a "serious" writer and wears glasses. Whether she needs them or are PurelyAestheticGlasses is up to questionable, but she's shown wearing reading glasses with hot pink frames when working on her romance novels, so it's the viewer.
round lenses and wearing them on TV that's likely the part just for the aesthetic.
* MissingMom: As part of her plan, Ruth drops off her children with Bob and Mary and vanishes from their lives until theend.
end. Since she has no home due the loss of the Patchett house and no income, she can entirely justify dropping them on their father to anyone who asks.
* MrFanservice: Garcia, Mary's butler, is shirtless or has his shirt mostly unbuttoned most of the time he appears.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Or the title for that matter. Being the "greatest evil to husbands everywhere" would count if Bob wasn't an ungratefulaffair turning affair-turning husband who only sees his family as a necessary ball and chain and only sees them when he needs to rest and eat.
* MissingMom: As part of her plan, Ruth drops off her children with Bob and Mary and vanishes from their lives until the
* MrFanservice: Garcia, Mary's butler, is shirtless or has his shirt mostly unbuttoned most of the time he appears.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Or the title for that matter. Being the "greatest evil to husbands everywhere" would count if Bob wasn't an ungrateful
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Part of the ColorMotif and Mary's favorite color, which is fitting with her dainty and romantic interests. Her lipstick, house, decor, clothing, etc. are all in pink; even her spectacles at the end are pink tinted. Ruth takes up this color after settling in as a successful businesswoman.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: PetTheDog:
** When Mary hears that Bob is going to let/make Ruth walk four blocks at night in the pouring rain, she looks shocked, and even more horrified when she tries to object and Ruth says she's ''used'' to it. It seems quickly forgotten though.
** When Mary catches her butler having a sexy dance with ''fourteen-year-old'' Nicolette, she very promptly responds by throwing him out and firing him. Her comments make it clear it's the minor vs adult that's the problem, not that her sometimes lover is messing with someone else. Her protective instincts come as a surprise.
* PinkMeansFeminine:
** Part of the ColorMotif and Mary's favorite color, which is fitting with her dainty and romantic interests. Her lipstick, house, decor, clothing, etc. are all in pink; even her spectaclesat the end while she's working on her novel are pink tinted. tinted.
** Ruth takes up this color after settling in as a successfulbusinesswoman.businesswoman. Her outfit is a pale pink of flowing cloth.
** When Mary hears that Bob is going to let/make Ruth walk four blocks at night in the pouring rain, she looks shocked, and even more horrified when she tries to object and Ruth says she's ''used'' to it. It seems quickly forgotten though.
** When Mary catches her butler having a sexy dance with ''fourteen-year-old'' Nicolette, she very promptly responds by throwing him out and firing him. Her comments make it clear it's the minor vs adult that's the problem, not that her sometimes lover is messing with someone else. Her protective instincts come as a surprise.
* PinkMeansFeminine:
** Part of the ColorMotif and Mary's favorite color, which is fitting with her dainty and romantic interests. Her lipstick, house, decor, clothing, etc. are all in pink; even her spectacles
** Ruth takes up this color after settling in as a successful
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* RichBitch: Mary Fisher.
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* RichBitch: Mary Fisher. She's arrogant, snotty, and dismissive. She gets better.
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* IronicHell: Figuratively, and what Ruth's plan all is meant to lead up to.
* LargeHam: Creator/MerylStreep's performance as Mary Fisher is Grade A.
* LargeHam: Creator/MerylStreep's performance as Mary Fisher is Grade A.
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* IronicHell: Figuratively, and what Ruth's plan all is meant to lead up to.
to. Bob winds up in the lowest ranks of society after all his clawing to the top by illegal and unethical means.
* LargeHam: Creator/MerylStreep's performance as Mary Fisher is Grade A. She plays the successful, clawed-my-way-up pretend-rich-background high-class cool-mannered rich person to the hilt.
* LargeHam: Creator/MerylStreep's performance as Mary Fisher is Grade A. She plays the successful, clawed-my-way-up pretend-rich-background high-class cool-mannered rich person to the hilt.
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* FavorsForTheSexy: Gets Olivia Honey hired right away. Earlier in the film, Bob lets Mary sit up front with him in the car while Ruth sits in the back and has to ''walk'' four blocks to their house.
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* FavorsForTheSexy: FavorsForTheSexy:
** Gets Olivia Honey hired right away. Bob looks up the line of her nyloned leg to her two inches above the knees tight skit, checks out her front, than looks at her face. When she says the agency sent her, he goes "you're hired" without even a trial period.
** Earlier in the film, Bob lets Mary sit up front with him in the car while Ruth sits in the back and has to ''walk'' four blocks to their house. Even Mary thinks that's too much, and looks shocked when Ruth tells her she's used to it.
** Gets Olivia Honey hired right away. Bob looks up the line of her nyloned leg to her two inches above the knees tight skit, checks out her front, than looks at her face. When she says the agency sent her, he goes "you're hired" without even a trial period.
** Earlier in the film, Bob lets Mary sit up front with him in the car while Ruth sits in the back and has to ''walk'' four blocks to their house. Even Mary thinks that's too much, and looks shocked when Ruth tells her she's used to it.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: In order to expose Bob's embezzlement, Ruth and a secretary transfer several times more money to his bank account than he was skimming off. Ruth describes in narration that she "wasn't framing Bob, just making his thievery more obvious."
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: In order to expose Bob's embezzlement, Ruth and a secretary transfer several times more money to his bank account than he was skimming off. Ruth describes in narration that she "wasn't framing Bob, just making his thievery a little more obvious.''obvious''."
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* ExiledToTheCouch: Played with. Bob merely doesn't spend the night with Ruth after his affair with Mary starts; after an argument with Mary, he moves ''himself'' to the couch when she starts whining for him to stay home more. Played straight after Mary loses it and found out about an affair he had with Olivia Honey, she whispers he's "still on probation".
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* ExiledToTheCouch: ExiledToTheCouch:
** Played with. Bob merely doesn't spend the night with Ruth after his affair with Mary starts; after an argument with Mary, he moves ''himself'' to the couch when she startswhining asking for him to stay home more. more.
** Played straight after Mary loses it and found out about an affair he had with OliviaHoney, Honey; she whispers he's "still on probation".
** Played with. Bob merely doesn't spend the night with Ruth after his affair with Mary starts; after an argument with Mary, he moves ''himself'' to the couch when she starts
** Played straight after Mary loses it and found out about an affair he had with Olivia
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The head of Golden Twilight Home, the BleakAbyssRetirementHome where Mary's mother is sent back from, tells off Mary that her mother needs tender care and love. They may sedate and keep their tenants in a drug induced lull as if they're going to heaven that soon as if they're going to travel into space via cryrostasis, but by damn it does she have a point.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The head of Golden Twilight Home, the BleakAbyssRetirementHome where Mary's mother is sent back from, tells off Mary that her mother needs tender care and love. They may sedate and keep their tenants in a drug induced lull as if they're going to heaven that soon or as if they're going to travel into space via cryrostasis, but by damn it does she have a point.
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* CordonBleughChef: Bob, in a subtle running gag. He doesn't put it on the right temperature or leave it in for the right time. It makes his criticism of Ruth's cooking seem very hypocrital.
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* CordonBleughChef: Bob, in a subtle running gag. He doesn't put it on the right temperature or leave it in for the right time. It makes his criticism of Ruth's cooking seem very hypocrital.hypocritical.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Ruth. Bob as well, though he's a bit nastier about it.
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* DeadpanSnarker: DeadpanSnarker:
** Ruth. Since she's been a little mouse to Bob through the first part of the movie, he is shocked when she drops the kids off at the Fisher house after the loss of the Patchett home and she unloads on him on her way out.
** Bob as well, though he's a bit nastier aboutit.it. His snide comments to Ruth about how he sees her various inadequacies border on the verbally abusive.
** Ruth. Since she's been a little mouse to Bob through the first part of the movie, he is shocked when she drops the kids off at the Fisher house after the loss of the Patchett home and she unloads on him on her way out.
** Bob as well, though he's a bit nastier about
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* DirtyOldWoman: Mrs. Fisher.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Played with--adultery doesn't justify the length Ruth goes to ruin Bob's life, but considering his long-time embezzlement of his clients, he genuinely does deserve his stint in prison, and likely would not have ever been found out if not for Ruth.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Played with--adultery doesn't justify the length Ruth goes to ruin Bob's life, but considering his long-time embezzlement of his clients, he genuinely does deserve his stint in prison, and likely would not have ever been found out if not for Ruth.
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* DirtyOldWoman: Mrs. Fisher.
Fisher. The news reporter who came to interview Mary gets a full rundown of what Francine knows of Mary's love life previous to Mary moving away from home.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Played with--adulterydoesn't and even his cruel Reason You Suck Speech to Ruth don't justify the length Ruth goes to ruin Bob's life, but considering his long-time embezzlement of his clients, he genuinely does deserve his stint in prison, and likely would not have ever been found out if not for Ruth.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Played with--adultery
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* FullNameBasis: Most characters, especially Ruth, refer to Mary by her full name.
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* FullNameBasis: Most characters, especially Ruth, refer to Mary by her full name. She's a famous author in the movie world, so it's not surprising.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Vesta Rose's first client, a mousy woman whose husband had just left her and who has experience in clerical work. [[spoiler: She gets a job as a court clerk and happily switches Bob's case to an unbiased judge instead of the judge that his lawyer bribed at Ruth's request.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: Vesta Rose's first client, a mousy woman whose husband had just left her and who has experience in clerical work. [[spoiler: She gets a job as a court clerk and at Ruth's request happily switches Bob's case to an unbiased judge instead of the judge that his lawyer bribed at Ruth's request.bribed.]]
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--->'''Ruth:''' [[SarcasmMode How can telling a man that you love him possibly scare him off?]]
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Fisher, Mary's mother, to Bob and the Patchett children.
* CordonBleughChef: Bob, in a subtle running gag.
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse, this happens to Mary halfway through the movie.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Fisher, Mary's mother, to Bob and the Patchett children.
* CordonBleughChef: Bob, in a subtle running gag.
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse, this happens to Mary halfway through the movie.
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--->'''Ruth:''' [[SarcasmMode How can telling a man that you love him [[SarcasmMode possibly scare him off?]]
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Fisher, Mary's mother, to Bob and the Patchettchildren.
children. It tips into problematic when she allows Andrew to have alcohol when she has neither the legal authority to do so and doesn't monitor his intake.
* CordonBleughChef: Bob, in a subtle runninggag.
gag. He doesn't put it on the right temperature or leave it in for the right time. It makes his criticism of Ruth's cooking seem very hypocrital.
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse, this happens to Mary halfway through the movie. Her life is so messed up by Ruth's maneuvering to get Bob she can't write her usual steamy romance novels set in exotic locations, instead producing ''Love in the Rinse Cycle.'' It contains a whole chapter on doing laundry -which Mary had long forgotten how to do.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Fisher, Mary's mother, to Bob and the Patchett
* CordonBleughChef: Bob, in a subtle running
* CreatorBreakdown: InUniverse, this happens to Mary halfway through the movie. Her life is so messed up by Ruth's maneuvering to get Bob she can't write her usual steamy romance novels set in exotic locations, instead producing ''Love in the Rinse Cycle.'' It contains a whole chapter on doing laundry -which Mary had long forgotten how to do.
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* CheekCopy: After manipulating Bob's ex-secretary/lover into breaking into Bob's office, Ruth finds these sort of pictures in his file... and mails them to Mary. What gave him away was that his hands were visible in the pictures... and he was still wearing the distinctive ring Mary gave him.
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* CheekCopy: After manipulating Bob's ex-secretary/lover into breaking into Bob's office, Ruth finds these sort of pictures in his file...files... and mails them to Mary. What gave him away was that his hands were visible in the pictures... and he was still wearing the distinctive ring Mary gave him.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Ruth and Bob's children, Nicolette and Andrew. They start out the film being smart-mouthed and whiny, with a scene where Andrew is punching holes in the Dairy aisle of the supermarket. Their behavior only helps out in Ruth's plan to ruin Mary Fisher's life.
** BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicolette is closer to this age. While she was merely snarky with her mom, she drives Mary crazy.
** BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicolette is closer to this age. While she was merely snarky with her mom, she drives Mary crazy.
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* BrattyHalfPint: Ruth and Bob's children, Nicolette and Andrew. They start out the film being smart-mouthed and whiny, with a scene where Andrew is punching holes in the Dairy aisle of the supermarket. Their behavior only helps out in Ruth's plan to ruin Bob's new life, with Mary Fisher's life.
**Fisher as splash damage.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicolette is closer to this age. While she was merely snarky with her mom, she drives Marycrazy.crazy after the loss of the Patchett family home and her and her brother having to move in with her dad and Mary.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicolette is closer to this age. While she was merely snarky with her mom, she drives Mary
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* BrainyBrunette: Ruth proves to be this in the film. Nurse Hooper also counts in this regard since she's been accumulating a lot of money and built a successful business with Ruth.
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* BrainyBrunette: BrainyBrunette:
** Ruth proves to be this in the film. She makes a reasonably complex and long-running plan to take down Bob. She doesn't even know what steps she'll take after the first four or five; she takes things as they come, and takes advantage of new factors as they show up. Ruth didn't know about Bob's embezzling when he walked out, but when she found out, she spun it into a major step in her takedown plan. She and Hooper also start a successful job placement business.
** Nurse Hooper also counts in thisregard since regard; she's been accumulating a lot of money by being frugal and built taking advantage of the room and board benefits her job offers, and builds a successful business with Ruth.Ruth. She also spotted Ruth's plan to make the residents of the nursing home more comfortable, happier, and less sedated, even though the head of the place didn't spot it even when the residents were playing soccer in the yard.
** Ruth proves to be this in the film. She makes a reasonably complex and long-running plan to take down Bob. She doesn't even know what steps she'll take after the first four or five; she takes things as they come, and takes advantage of new factors as they show up. Ruth didn't know about Bob's embezzling when he walked out, but when she found out, she spun it into a major step in her takedown plan. She and Hooper also start a successful job placement business.
** Nurse Hooper also counts in this
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** Mary ''met'' Ruth and Bob at a party, and Ruth was introduced to her as Bob's wife. Yet she agrees to screw around with Bob, even though Ruth has not given explicit permission for the affair or for an open marriage in general.
** It's implied during the dinner with his parents that Bob got Ruth pregnant and his or their parents made him marry Ruth. Instead of at least trying to be polite about the awkward situation, he treats her like a glorified housekeeper and screws around on her all the time, even though he has another kid with her. Ruth is able to recite his most common excuses from memory when trying to explain to the kids why their dad didn't come home after the party the night before. When Ruth takes a bad fall during the dinner with his parents, he's more concerned about her embarrassing them even as his mother runs to help Ruth and his father shows signs of concern. He leaves Ruth that night with a massive Reason You Suck speech -but he pushes the wrong buttons.
** It's implied during the dinner with his parents that Bob got Ruth pregnant and his or their parents made him marry Ruth. Instead of at least trying to be polite about the awkward situation, he treats her like a glorified housekeeper and screws around on her all the time, even though he has another kid with her. Ruth is able to recite his most common excuses from memory when trying to explain to the kids why their dad didn't come home after the party the night before. When Ruth takes a bad fall during the dinner with his parents, he's more concerned about her embarrassing them even as his mother runs to help Ruth and his father shows signs of concern. He leaves Ruth that night with a massive Reason You Suck speech -but he pushes the wrong buttons.
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** Mary ''met'' Ruth and Bob at a party, and Ruth was introduced to her as Bob's wife. Yet she agrees to screw around with Bob, even though Ruth has not given explicit permission for the affair or for an open marriage in general.
general. She also locked her mother away in a nursing home -an expensive one, but one that kept its patients regularly mildly sedated to avoid problems.
** It's implied during the dinner with his parents that Bob got Ruth pregnant and his or their parents made him marry Ruth. Instead of at least trying to be polite about the awkward situation, he treats her like a glorified housekeeper and screws around on her all the time, eventhough as he has another kid with her. Ruth is able to recite his most common excuses from memory when trying to explain to the kids why their dad didn't come home after the party the night before. When Ruth takes a bad fall during the dinner with his parents, he's more concerned about her embarrassing them even as his mother runs to help Ruth and his father shows signs of concern. He leaves Ruth that night with a massive Reason You Suck speech -but he pushes the wrong buttons.
** It's implied during the dinner with his parents that Bob got Ruth pregnant and his or their parents made him marry Ruth. Instead of at least trying to be polite about the awkward situation, he treats her like a glorified housekeeper and screws around on her all the time, even
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** Mary ''met'' Ruth and Bob at a party, and Ruth was introduced to her as Bob's wife. Yet she agrees to screw around with Bob, even though Ruth has not given explicit permission for the affair or for an open marriage in general.
** It's implied during the dinner with his parents that Bob got Ruth pregnant and his or their parents made him marry Ruth. Instead of at least trying to be polite about the awkward situation, he treats her like a glorified housekeeper and screws around on her all the time, even though he has another kid with her. Ruth is able to recite his most common excuses from memory when trying to explain to the kids why their dad didn't come home after the party the night before. When Ruth takes a bad fall during the dinner with his parents, he's more concerned about her embarrassing them even as his mother runs to help Ruth and his father shows signs of concern. He leaves Ruth that night with a massive Reason You Suck speech -but he pushes the wrong buttons.
** It's implied during the dinner with his parents that Bob got Ruth pregnant and his or their parents made him marry Ruth. Instead of at least trying to be polite about the awkward situation, he treats her like a glorified housekeeper and screws around on her all the time, even though he has another kid with her. Ruth is able to recite his most common excuses from memory when trying to explain to the kids why their dad didn't come home after the party the night before. When Ruth takes a bad fall during the dinner with his parents, he's more concerned about her embarrassing them even as his mother runs to help Ruth and his father shows signs of concern. He leaves Ruth that night with a massive Reason You Suck speech -but he pushes the wrong buttons.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the original ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' book, [[spoiler:Ruth has completely changed herself into the image of Mary Fisher, who's passed away from cancer, and Ruth anxiously awaits Bobbo's release so she can have the chance to "control" him using her new image.]] By the end of this movie, [[spoiler:Ruth has merely given herself a more glamorous makeover, Bob has learned a hard lesson to be a better family man, and Mary Fisher is still alive and well and has gone on to other things.]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the original ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' book, [[spoiler:Ruth Ruth has completely changed herself into [[spoiler:into the image of Mary Fisher, who's passed away from cancer, and and]] Ruth anxiously awaits Bobbo's release so [[spoiler:so she can have the chance to "control" him using her new image.]] By the end of this movie, [[spoiler:Ruth Ruth has merely given herself a [[spoiler:a more glamorous makeover, makeover,]] Bob has learned a hard lesson to be a better family man, and [[spoiler:and Mary Fisher is still alive and well and has gone on to other things.]]
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** Bob, a rare male example.
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** Bob, a rare male example. Part of Mary's appeal is Bob's a mid-level accountant, and Mary is an extremely successful author -to the point where she has it in her contract that she can break it at ''any time'' and go to another publisher. That's Rowling and King level successful.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While Mary is having her interview with People magazine, the People photographer is taking pictures of Nicolette posing in a swimsuit.
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** Mary Fisher's mother was named "Pearl" in the book; here, she's given the name "Francine".
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mary Fisher. She's from New Jersey, has the last name "Fisher", and Mrs. Fisher mentioned Mr. Fisher having been a "Kosher butcher from Hoboken" in life.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Mary Fisher. She's from New Jersey, has the last name "Fisher", and Mrs. Fisher mentioned Mr. Fisher having been a "Kosher butcher from Hoboken" in life. In addition, in the FreezeFrameBonus mentioned above, Mrs. Fisher's maiden name is listed as "Hoffman".
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* AdamWesting: This was Streep's first pure comedic role, and she hams it up appropriately.
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* MrFanservice: Garcia, Mary's butler, is shirtless most of the time he appears.
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* AdamWesting: This was Streep's first pure comedic role, and she hams it up appropriately.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After blowing up Bob's house, Ruth literally starts all over again as a working woman, all the while earning cohorts and friends along her path of revenge. This tallies up into the Vesta Rose Employment Agency founded by her and Nurse Hooper, allowing to outreach to women who don't meet the standards of the worst aspects of patriarchy to give them a legit working chance and teach them the necessary skills to survive on their own and in the workplace. As Ruth's agency allows her to infiltrate and finish up the last steps of her revenge, she and Hooper are both in the money and are successful entrepreneurs and humanitarians who become the women they needed in their lives to other disadvantaged women everywhere. With Bob, she successfully sends him to a year and a half of hard time in prison to teach him the follies of being a materialistic jerk, and breaks him to be a better husband and father and person to his family.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After blowing up Bob's house, Ruth literally starts all over again as a working woman, all the while earning cohorts and friends along her path of revenge. This tallies up into the Vesta Rose Employment Agency founded by her and Nurse Hooper, allowing them to outreach to women who don't meet the standards of the worst aspects of patriarchy to give them a legit working chance and teach them the necessary skills to survive on their own and in the workplace. As Ruth's agency allows her to infiltrate and finish up the last steps of her revenge, she and Hooper are both in the money and are successful entrepreneurs and humanitarians who become the women they needed in their lives to other disadvantaged women everywhere. With Bob, she successfully sends him to a year and a half of hard time in prison to teach him the follies of being a materialistic jerk, and breaks him to be a better husband and father and person to his family.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: The head of Golden Twilight Home, the BleakAbyssRetirementHome where Mary's mother is sent back from, tells off Mary that her mother needs tender care and love. They may sedate and keep their tenants in a drug induced lull as if they're going to heaven that soon as if they're going to travel into space via cryrostasis, but by damn it does she have a point.
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* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: Of the GreyAndGreyMorality sort, overweight and homely Ruth to the slim and beautiful Mary Fisher.
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* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: Of With the GreyAndGreyMorality sort, overweight and homely Ruth to the slim and beautiful Mary Fisher.
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*TruthInTelevision: Meryl Streep has humorously admitted that the breaking point moment of the movie of Mary with her mother and Ruth and Bob's kids after finding out about Bob's latest affair takes inspiration from needing to discipline her own real life kids in an ''Extra!'' interview.
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* AcceptableTargets: An extremely subtle theme to this movie and its frame of time is its knocking of the 1980s East Coast yuppie lifestyle, not unlike ''[[Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'' or ''[[Film/VampiresKiss Vampire's Kiss]]'', and it going into marriage. While Ruth is a middle class housewife, Bob's work life as a high profile accountant has him veer close to the rich socialite world of New York City, which is where he meets and starts an affair with Mary Fisher. Becoming estranged and far out of touch from his family due to this, Ruth begins to knock him down several pegs just to show how far too the sun he's flown to not realize that he's about to lose his wings and crash back to earth.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the original ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' book, [[spoiler:Ruth has completely changed herself into the image of Mary Fisher, who's passed away from cancer, and Ruth anxiously awaits Bobbo's release so she can have the chance to "control" him using her new image.]] By the end of this movie, [[spoiler:Ruth has merely given herself a more glamorous makeover, and Mary Fisher is still alive and well and has gone on to other things.]]
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the original ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' book, [[spoiler:Ruth has completely changed herself into the image of Mary Fisher, who's passed away from cancer, and Ruth anxiously awaits Bobbo's release so she can have the chance to "control" him using her new image.]] By the end of this movie, [[spoiler:Ruth has merely given herself a more glamorous makeover, and Mary Fisher is still alive and well and has gone on to other things.]]
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* AcceptableTargets: An extremely subtle theme to this movie and its frame of time is its knocking of the 1980s East Coast yuppie lifestyle, not unlike ''[[Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'' or ''[[Film/VampiresKiss Vampire's Kiss]]'', and it going into marriage. While Ruth is a middle class housewife, Bob's work life as a high profile accountant has him veer close to the rich socialite world of New York City, which is where he meets and starts an affair with Mary Fisher. Becoming estranged and far out of touch from his family due to this, Ruth begins to knock him down several pegs just to show how far too to the sun he's flown to not realize that he's about to lose his wings and crash back to earth.
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the original ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' book, [[spoiler:Ruth has completely changed herself into the image of Mary Fisher, who's passed away from cancer, and Ruth anxiously awaits Bobbo's release so she can have the chance to "control" him using her new image.]] By the end of this movie, [[spoiler:Ruth has merely given herself a more glamorous makeover, Bob has learned a hard lesson to be a better family man, and Mary Fisher is still alive and well and has gone on to other things.]]
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the original ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' book, [[spoiler:Ruth has completely changed herself into the image of Mary Fisher, who's passed away from cancer, and Ruth anxiously awaits Bobbo's release so she can have the chance to "control" him using her new image.]] By the end of this movie, [[spoiler:Ruth has merely given herself a more glamorous makeover, Bob has learned a hard lesson to be a better family man, and Mary Fisher is still alive and well and has gone on to other things.]]
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* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: As revenge is made to be extremely cold ''ala froid'' by Ruth's preparation, first she unloads onto Bob and Mary the responsibility of raising their children, taking care of Mary's mother, and the rigors of everyday life in a typical married household into Mary's Pink Palace By The Sea. This brilliantly destroys all glamour and prestige of their relationship, showing how much of an underprepared and irresponsible woman Mary is in the face of family life to Bob, and establishes the ground to let Mary knows how it feels like to be on the receiving end of Bob's cheating ways.
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* AcceptableTargets: An extremely subtle theme to this movie and its frame of time is its knocking of the 1980s East Coast yuppie lifestyle, not unlike ''[[Film/NationalLampoonsChristmasVacation National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation]]'' or ''[[Film/VampiresKiss Vampire's Kiss]]'', and it going into marriage. While Ruth is a middle class housewife, Bob's work life as a high profile accountant has him veer close to the rich socialite world of New York City, which is where he meets and starts an affair with Mary Fisher. Becoming estranged and far out of touch from his family due to this, Ruth begins to knock him down several pegs just to show how far too the sun he's flown to not realize that he's about to lose his wings and crash back to earth.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After blowing up Bob's house, Ruth literally starts all over again as a working woman, all the while earning cohorts and friends along her path of revenge. This tallies up into the Vesta Rose Employment Agency founded by her and Nurse Hooper, allowing to outreach to women who don't meet the standards of the worst aspects of patriarchy to give them a legit working chance and teach them the necessary skills to survive on their own and in the workplace. As Ruth's agency allows her to infiltrate and finish up the last steps of her revenge, she and Hooper are both in the money and are successful entrepreneurs and humanitarians who become the women they needed in their lives to other disadvantaged women everywhere. With Bob, she successfully sends him to a year and a half of hard time in prison to teach him the follies of being a materialistic jerk, and breaks him to be a better husband and father and person to his family.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: After blowing up Bob's house, Ruth literally starts all over again as a working woman, all the while earning cohorts and friends along her path of revenge. This tallies up into the Vesta Rose Employment Agency founded by her and Nurse Hooper, allowing to outreach to women who don't meet the standards of the worst aspects of patriarchy to give them a legit working chance and teach them the necessary skills to survive on their own and in the workplace. As Ruth's agency allows her to infiltrate and finish up the last steps of her revenge, she and Hooper are both in the money and are successful entrepreneurs and humanitarians who become the women they needed in their lives to other disadvantaged women everywhere. With Bob, she sends him to a year and a half of hard time in prison to teach him the follies of being a materialistic jerk, and breaks him to be a better husband and father and person to his family.
