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''The Intervention'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/CleaDuVall in her directorial debut. The film stars [=DuVall=], Creator/MelanieLynskey, Creator/NatashaLyonne, Creator/AliaShawkat, Creator/CobieSmulders, Vincent Piazza, Creator/JasonRitter and Creator/BenSchwartz.

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''The Intervention'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/CleaDuVall in her directorial debut. The film stars [=DuVall=], Creator/MelanieLynskey, Creator/NatashaLyonne, Creator/AliaShawkat, Creator/CobieSmulders, Vincent Piazza, Creator/VincentPiazza, Creator/JasonRitter and Creator/BenSchwartz.
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''The Intervention'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/CleaDuVall in her directorial debut. The film stars [=DuVall=], Creator/MelanieLynskey, Creator/NatashaLyonne, Creator/AliaShawkat, Creator/CobieSmulders, Vincent Piazza, Jason Ritter and Ben Schwartz.

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''The Intervention'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/CleaDuVall in her directorial debut. The film stars [=DuVall=], Creator/MelanieLynskey, Creator/NatashaLyonne, Creator/AliaShawkat, Creator/CobieSmulders, Vincent Piazza, Jason Ritter Creator/JasonRitter and Ben Schwartz.
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* ActorAllusion:
** Creator/CobieSmulders in a movie about interventions and her character is subjected to one? [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Frankly, all that's missing is the banner.]]
** Clea [=DuVall=], Natasha Lyonne, and Melanie Lynskey all appeared in ''Film/ButImACheerleader'', and both films feature [=DuVall=] and Lyonne as a couple and an intervention (in ''But I'm a Cheerleader'' it was to make Lyonne's character admit that she was a lesbian, so that her parents could sent her to [[CureYourGays a camp to cure her homosexuality]]).

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Annie is fairly quickly established as having a drinking problem, which blows their first attempt at having the intervention. More than one character comments on it over the course of the movie, [[spoiler: and ultimately, the other characters have to stage an intervention for it]].



* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:while things seem to be looking up for all of the other couples, Annie and Matt's engagement, along with their relationship, seems to be effectively over, and they both seem pretty torn up about it. Fortunately, as a bit of a bright spot, on her flight home, as Annie seems as though she's going to order a bourbon similar to the beginning of the film, she instead opts for an orange juice.]]
* TheMasochismTango: Ruby and Peter have a really passive-agressive relationship.
* StagingAnIntervention: The whole point of the film. Ruby and Peter's constant in-fighting marriage led their other friends to stage an intervention on them to convince them to divorce.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:while [[spoiler:While things seem to be looking up for all of the other couples, Annie and Matt's engagement, along with their relationship, seems to be effectively over, and they both seem pretty torn up about it. Fortunately, as a bit of a bright spot, on her flight home, as Annie seems as though she's going to order a bourbon similar to the beginning of the film, she instead opts for an orange juice.]]
* {{Bookends}}: The film starts with Annie sitting next to Matt on an airplane, ordering an orange juice before switching to bourbon. [[spoiler:It ends with Annie, sitting alone on an airplane ordering an orange juice]].
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler:The two interventions are staged very similarly, with much the same lines]].
* TheMasochismTango: Ruby and Peter have a really passive-agressive passive-aggressive relationship.
* StagingAnIntervention: The whole point of the film. Ruby and Peter's constant in-fighting marriage led their other friends to stage an intervention on them to convince them to divorce. [[spoiler:And then there's an intervention for Annie and her drinking problem]].


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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Matt is implied to be afraid of the dark.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Lola]] has no problem having an affair with [[spoiler:Jessie on Jack's back]].
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* BiTheWay:
** Sarah is bisexual, which causes some tensions in her relationship with Jessie, who's lesbian.
** [[spoiler:Lola]] is revealed to be one when [[spoiler:she admits it to Jessie in an attempt to seduce her]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:while things seem to be looking up for all of the couples, Annie and Matt's engagement, along with their relationship, seems to be effectively over, and they both seem pretty torn up about it. Fortunately, as a bit of a bright spot, on her flight home, Annie seems as though she's going to order a bourbon, she instead opts for an orange juice.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:while things seem to be looking up for all of the other couples, Annie and Matt's engagement, along with their relationship, seems to be effectively over, and they both seem pretty torn up about it. Fortunately, as a bit of a bright spot, on her flight home, as Annie seems as though she's going to order a bourbon, bourbon similar to the beginning of the film, she instead opts for an orange juice.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:while things seem to be looking up for all of the couples, Annie and Matt's engagement, along with their relationship, seems to be effectively over, and they both seem pretty torn up about it. Fortunately, as a bit of a bright spot, on her flight home, Annie seems as though she's going to order a bourbon, she instead opts for an orange juice.]]

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** [[spoiler:Lola]] is revealed to be one when [[she admits it to Jessie in an attempt to seduce her]].

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** [[spoiler:Lola]] is revealed to be one when [[she [[spoiler:she admits it to Jessie in an attempt to seduce her]].


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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Lola]] has no problem having an affair with [[spoiler:Jessie on Jack's back]].

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-->'''Matt:''' Was ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' out yet?

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-->'''Matt:''' Was ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' out yet?



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* BiTheWay: Sarah [[spoiler: and Lola]]

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Sarah [[spoiler: and Lola]]is bisexual, which causes some tensions in her relationship with Jessie, who's lesbian.
** [[spoiler:Lola]] is revealed to be one when [[she admits it to Jessie in an attempt to seduce her]].

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* TheAlcoholic: Annie.


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-->'''Matt:''' Was ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' out yet?
-->'''Jack:''' When she was born? No, but I've explained it to her and she knows how it ends.
* TheAlcoholic: Annie.
* AsYouKnow: Annie greets Sarah and Jessie with "LESBIANS!"


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* WaxingLyrical: A nervous Annie tries to give a pep talk to Peter and ends up quoting the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' theme song.
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* TheAlcoholic: Annie.
* AgeGapRomance: Lola is at least 10 years younger than Jack [[spoiler: and Jessie]]. His friends are not entirely on board with this.
* BiTheWay: Sarah [[spoiler: and Lola]]
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''The Intervention'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Creator/CleaDuVall in her directorial debut. The film stars [=DuVall=], Creator/MelanieLynskey, Creator/NatashaLyonne, Creator/AliaShawkat, Creator/CobieSmulders, Vincent Piazza, Jason Ritter and Ben Schwartz.

The film centers on four dysfunctional couples on a weekend trip: Jessie ([=DuVall=]) and Sarah (Lyonne), who might be moving a little too fast — or a little too slow, depending on which one of them one asks; Annie (Lynskey) and Matt (Ritter), an engaged couple who seems picture-perfect, but who keep rescheduling their wedding and no one wants to talk about why; Lola (Shawkat) and Jack (Schwartz), a just-met couple who are rushing into things; and Ruby (Smulders) and Peter (Piazza), a married couple that fights constantly.

It turns out that Ruby and Peter's marriage led the other friends to make the weekend getaway so that they can all gather together to spring a surprise divorce intervention on them. Needless to say, they're not too happy about it — and the intervention sets off a whole lot of drama between all the friends and couples.

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!!The film contains examples of:
* TheMasochismTango: Ruby and Peter have a really passive-agressive relationship.
* StagingAnIntervention: The whole point of the film. Ruby and Peter's constant in-fighting marriage led their other friends to stage an intervention on them to convince them to divorce.
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