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%%* FalseAntagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.


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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.
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* FalseAntagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.

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* %%* FalseAntagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.

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* FalseAntagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.



* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: To distract the security guard, Mandy offers him coffee with morphine.
* False antagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.

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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: To distract the security guard, Mandy offers him coffee with morphine.
* False antagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: To distract the security guard, Mandy offers him coffee with morphine.

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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: To distract the security guard, Mandy offers him coffee with morphine.morphine.
* False antagonist: Despite the fact that Jefferson, played by David Arquette, is a criminal and killed a cop, as the story progresses he "helps" the main character by knocking out the cop, and also at the end of the movie he admits to Mandy that he did not intend to harm Regina.
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* BareYourMidriff: When Regina shows up to pick up the organs at the hospital, she wears a t-shirt with the back twisted into a knot to better display her midsection.
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* The90s: The film takes place in 1999.
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* The90s: The film takes place in 1999.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Mandy, Regina and Karen survive the night with their operation more or less intact, death row inmate Jefferson takes advantage of the events to escape custody, Nicholas is still running his operation and is last seen coming to the hospital. Really, the only villain to get their comeuppance is Mikey.]]

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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach on dying patients who don't have families to check on them and whose deaths will likely be attributed to natural causes). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.



* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach, and on dying patients who don't have families to check on them). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach, and on dying patients who don't have families to check on them). PaperThinDisguise: Regina tries the same method putting on a set of scrubs to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], pass herself off as a nurse, except she ''pours bleach down her high heels (and later, her shoeless feet) make her stick out among the patient's throat''.others, who wear more practical footwear.
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* AnnoyingPatient: Mr. Kent keeps demanding to be seen despite being told over and over by Karen that as soon as a bed becomes available she will call him.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Kent. He keeps complaining to Karen that he feels dizzy and that he wants to be seen NOW. At the end, [[spoiler: he comes in, asking about [[McGuffin all the bags of organs]] lying around the hospital that he has had to pick up, explaining why Regina could not find them.]]

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* BloodyHilarious: The movie switches between Mandy and Regina obtaining the kidneys and getting blood all over themselves in the process.
* ComedicSociopathy: Both Regina and Mandy. Regina has no qualms about killing people to get herself that kidney. By the end, when [[spoiler: Jefferson, who is trying to escape]] threatens Mandy to help him escape or else he'll take Regina. Mandy's response is to tell him to just take her.



* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.
* StupidCrooks: Regina, bar none. Pouring bleach down a patient's throat to kill them? Harvest a kidney despite not knowing anything about anatomy or even making a plan of where to keep the kidney? Yeah.

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach).bleach, and on dying patients who don't have families to check on them). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.
* StupidCrooks: Regina, bar none. Pouring bleach down a patient's throat to kill them? Harvest a kidney despite not knowing anything about anatomy or even making a plan of where to keep the kidney? Yeah.Yeah.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: To distract the security guard, Mandy offers him coffee with morphine.

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Drug-addicted nurse Mandy (Bettis) and her cousin Regina (Farnsworth) are involved in [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]]. Mandy harvests the organs from dead patients and Regina acts as courier. However, one night Regina manages to grab the wrong cooler and finds herself delivering a cold soda to trafficker Nicholas instead of a kidney.

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Drug-addicted nurse Mandy (Bettis) and her cousin Regina (Farnsworth) are involved in [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]]. With the help of fellow nurse Karen, Mandy harvests procures the organs from dead patients and Regina acts as courier. the middle person between her and the boss, Nicholas (Foley). However, one night Regina gets manages to grab leave behind the wrong cooler bag of organs given to her and finds herself delivering a cooler with only cold soda to trafficker Nicholas instead of Nicholas. He demands that she provide him with a kidney.kidney, or else she will be a donor herself.



* BareYourMidriff: Regina shows up to pick up the organs in a t-shirt knotted in the back so that her mid section is on display.

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* BareYourMidriff: When Regina shows up to pick up the organs in at the hospital, she wears a t-shirt knotted in with the back so that twisted into a knot to better display her mid section is on display.midsection.



* BewareTheSillyOnes: Regina may be an idiot, but when she finds herself cornered, she'll fight back and leave you bleeding on the floor.



'''Karen'''That’s what I like about you,” Karen admits.

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'''Karen'''That’s '''Karen''': That's what I like about you,” Karen admits.you.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Mandy is upset about the patient Regina chooses to kill, as she was fond of that person.



* GoingCommando: Regina does not have anything she can use to carry [[spoiler: what she ''thinks'' is a kidney]], so she uses her panties for the task. Afterwards Mandy tells her to take off her blood-spattered scrubs and go home, and she walks to her car in nothing but her bra and socks.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.

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* GoingCommando: Regina does not have anything she can use to carry [[spoiler: what she ''thinks'' is a kidney]], so she uses her panties for the task. Afterwards By the end of her shift Mandy tells her to take off her blood-spattered scrubs and go home, home. So Regina strips off her top and she pants and walks to her car in nothing but naked except for her bra and socks.
* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Granted, Mandy is the nurse, not Regina, but the latter is absolutely ignorant about the human body (she has to ask Mandy how many kidneys does she have, and how many does she need to live). Despite that, she makes two very poorly planned attempts to procure a kidney:
** First she kills [[spoiler: a patient who is on dialysis and therefore, does not have kidneys that work]].
** Then she kills some unlucky stranger and extracts the kidney herself, except [[spoiler: she doesn't realize that she extracted the guy's ''bladder''.]]
* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in, a bit of injected bleach). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.throat''.
* StupidCrooks: Regina, bar none. Pouring bleach down a patient's throat to kill them? Harvest a kidney despite not knowing anything about anatomy or even making a plan of where to keep the kidney? Yeah.
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* CopKiller: The reason why Jefferson (David Arquette), the hospitalized prisoner, was in jail to begin with.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mandy and Karen:
-->'''Karen''': Why would you bring this cousin of yours into this if you knew she’d kill people and rat us out?\\
'''Mandy''': I sometimes have too much faith in humanity.\\
'''Karen'''That’s what I like about you,” Karen admits.

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* AddledAddict: Mandy is snorting drugs in the middle of her shift as a healthcare provider and must resort to ''[[OrganTheft stealing organs]]'' to finance her habit.

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* AddledAddict: Mandy is snorting drugs in the middle of her shift as a healthcare provider and must resort resorts to ''[[OrganTheft stealing organs]]'' to finance her habit.



* BerserkButton: For Mandy, any mention of any of the bad things [[spoiler:her brother Andy]] did to her.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in a bit of injected bleach). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.

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* BerserkButton: For Mandy, any mention of any of the bad things [[spoiler:her brother Andy]] did to her. \n Regina gets a HandGag on the first instance, and is almost choked to death on the second offense.
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EyeScream: How Mandy defends herself from [[spoiler:Mikey]]. It involves a syringe.
* GoingCommando: Regina does not have anything she can use to carry [[spoiler: what she ''thinks'' is a kidney]], so she uses her panties for the task. Afterwards Mandy tells her to take off her blood-spattered scrubs and go home, and she walks to her car in nothing but her bra and socks.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in in, a bit of injected bleach). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.
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* BerserkButton: For Mandy, any mention of any of the bad things [[spoiler:her brother Andy did to her.

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* BerserkButton: For Mandy, any mention of any of the bad things [[spoiler:her brother Andy Andy]] did to her.

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''12-Hour Shift'' is a 2020 ComedyHorror film written and directed by Creator/BreaGrant and starring Creator/AngelaBettis, Creator/ChloeFarnsworth, Creator/DavidArquette, and Wrestling/MickFoley.

Drug-addicted nurse Mandy (Bettis) and her cousin Regina (Farnsworth) are involved in [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]]. Mandy harvests the organs from dead patients and Regina asks as courier. However, one night Regina manages to grab the wrong cooler and finds herself delivering a cold soda to trafficker Nicholas instead of a kidney.

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''12-Hour Shift'' is a 2020 ComedyHorror film written and directed by Creator/BreaGrant and starring Creator/AngelaBettis, Creator/ChloeFarnsworth, Creator/ChloeFarnworth, Creator/DavidArquette, and Wrestling/MickFoley.

Drug-addicted nurse Mandy (Bettis) and her cousin Regina (Farnsworth) are involved in [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]]. Mandy harvests the organs from dead patients and Regina asks acts as courier. However, one night Regina manages to grab the wrong cooler and finds herself delivering a cold soda to trafficker Nicholas instead of a kidney.


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* BerserkButton: For Mandy, any mention of any of the bad things [[spoiler:her brother Andy did to her.
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* AddledAddict: Mandy is snorting drugs in the middle of her shift as a healthcare provider and must resort to ''[[OrganTheft stealing organs]]'' to finance her habit.

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* AddledAddict: Mandy is snorting drugs in the middle of her shift as a healthcare provider and must resort to ''[[OrganTheft stealing organs]]'' to finance her habit.habit.
* BareYourMidriff: Regina shows up to pick up the organs in a t-shirt knotted in the back so that her mid section is on display.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Regina asks Mandy how she kills her patients. A surly Mandy tells her she uses bleach (as in a bit of injected bleach). Regina tries the same method to kill [[spoiler: dialysis patient Mr. Collins]], except she ''pours bleach down the patient's throat''.
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[[caption-width-right:266:[[{{Tagline}} Get your shift together]].]]

''12-Hour Shift'' is a 2020 ComedyHorror film written and directed by Creator/BreaGrant and starring Creator/AngelaBettis, Creator/ChloeFarnsworth, Creator/DavidArquette, and Wrestling/MickFoley.

Drug-addicted nurse Mandy (Bettis) and her cousin Regina (Farnsworth) are involved in [[OrganTheft organ trafficking]]. Mandy harvests the organs from dead patients and Regina asks as courier. However, one night Regina manages to grab the wrong cooler and finds herself delivering a cold soda to trafficker Nicholas instead of a kidney.
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* AddledAddict: Mandy is snorting drugs in the middle of her shift as a healthcare provider and must resort to ''[[OrganTheft stealing organs]]'' to finance her habit.

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