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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Harry and Veronica's son is shot dead by the cops who pull him over, because he dropped his cell phone then leaned over to get it, seeming like a gun in their eyes. He was on the phone not listening when they ordered him to show his hands. Of course, him being a young Black man did not help, and they clearly were suspicious of him as he was in a very nice car (which they probably thought he stole) after pulling him over for making a U-turn.
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Harry and Veronica's son is shot dead by the cops who pull him over, because he dropped his cell phone then leaned over to get it, seeming like a gun in their eyes. He was on the phone not listening when they ordered him to show his hands. Of course, him being a young Black man did not help, and they clearly were suspicious of him as he was in a very nice car (which they probably thought he stole) after pulling him over for making a U-turn.
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Crosswicking in preparation for TRS launch.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Alice's first and seemingly only client when she becomes a sex worker just so happens to be [[spoiler:a real estate developer with the connections to identify the building with the money, just from a blueprint]].
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** Alice's first and seemingly only client when she becomes a sex worker just so happens to be [[spoiler:a real estate developer with the connections to identify the building with the money, just from a blueprint]].
** Alice's first and seemingly only client when she becomes a sex worker just so happens to be [[spoiler:a real estate developer with the connections to identify the building with the money, just from a blueprint]].
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* DeadpanDoorShut: During the climactic heist of the Mulligan home, nurse Sarah opens her door and sees the three armed robbers. Despite their gun training, none of the widows have killed before and they targeted the building when it was most likely to be empty. After an intense staredown, Sarah gets the hint and retreats, shutting the door. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Tom Mulligan doesn't get the hint and tries to confront the robbers, getting himself killed in the process of shooting one of them.]]
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** Alice receives one from her mom early on when she talks back to her.
** Veronica and Alice give each other later on when they have an argument.
** Alice receives one from her mom early on when she talks back to her.
** Veronica and Alice give each other later on when they have an argument.
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* GriefInducedSplit: Veronica and Harry's [[HappilyMarried happy marriage]] crumbled after the death of their son Marcus, [[spoiler:who was shot by police while talking on the phone with his father.]]
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* BoomHeadshot: Jatemme does this to one of the guards that was rapping during the theft of his brother's campaign money.
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* BoomHeadshot: Jatemme does this to one of the guards that was rapping during the theft of his brother's campaign money.money that starts off the movie's plot.
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** Belle, who joins the team late, reveals herself to be a self-taught sprinter, spy, gun-wielder, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and hairdresser]]. Up until she joined, Linda only knew her as her ''babysitter''.
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** Belle, who joins the team late, reveals herself to be a self-taught sprinter, spy, gun-wielder, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and hairdresser]]. Up until she joined, Linda only knew her as her a ''babysitter''.
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** [[PlethoraOfMistakes A lot of mistakes are made]] in the preparation for the heist and during it, as one would expect from a group of women who barely know each other and have almost zero criminal experience.
** Alice is sent to get a van for the heist... even if she can't drive, meaning Veronica needs to arrive to take the car away.
** Alice is sent to get a van for the heist... even if she can't drive, meaning Veronica needs to arrive to take the car away.
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** [[PlethoraOfMistakes A lot of mistakes are made]] in the preparation for the heist and during it, as one would expect from a group of women who barely that hardly know each other and have almost zero criminal experience.
** Alice is sent to get a van for the heist...even if only she can't drive, meaning Veronica needs needed to arrive to take drive the car away.from the auction.
** Alice is sent to get a van for the heist...
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Jack asks Siobhan if she’s ever been with a black guy, and she tells him he needs to be more concerned about his struggling campaign than the comparative size of his anatomy.
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Invoked. Jack asks Siobhan if she’s ever been with a black guy, and she tells him he needs to be more concerned about his struggling campaign than the comparative size of his anatomy.
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** Veronica's dog, when brought to Harry's abandoned hideout, smells his scent on his jacket. [[spoiler:Her dog grows excited again at a closet door at Amanda's house, because Harry, having faked his death, is hiding inside. Also, there is Harry's flask, seen briefly at the start and also spotted at Amanda's.]]
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** Veronica's dog, when brought to Harry's abandoned hideout, smells his scent on his jacket. [[spoiler:Her dog grows excited again at a closet door at Amanda's house, because Harry, having faked his death, is hiding inside.there hiding. Also, there is Harry's flask, seen briefly at the start and also spotted at Amanda's.]]
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** Belle, Linda's babysitter, happens to work at Breechelle's shop that was funded by Jack Mulligan.
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** Belle, Linda's babysitter, happens to work at Breechelle's shop shop, that was funded by Jack Mulligan. [[spoiler:After the heist, she leaves money for Breechelle to pay off her debts]].
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** David, the man who Alice begins seeing when she joins a sexual escort service. He is seemingly kind to Alice, letting her take her time on moving toward sexual activity and using his connections to help her with the blueprint she's investigating. But he is still in a relationship with her based on around keeping Alice indebted to him with money and he sees nothing wrong with that, claiming to view all life as based around transactions. When Alice appears to warm up to him and asks, after multiple liaisons, if she could move in with him, he tries to divert the question and tells her only to care about all the money he's giving, implying he is still married.
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** David, the man who Alice begins seeing when she joins a sexual an escort service. He is seemingly kind to Alice, letting her take her time on moving toward sexual activity and using his connections to help her with the blueprint she's investigating. But he is still in a relationship with her based on around keeping Alice indebted to him with money and he sees nothing wrong with that, claiming to view all life as based around transactions. When Alice appears to warm up to him and asks, after multiple liaisons, if she could move in with him, he tries to divert the question and tells her only to care about all the money he's giving, implying he is still married.
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** Belle, Linda's babysitter, works at Breechelle's shop that was funded by Jack Mulligan.
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** Belle, Linda's babysitter, works happens to work at Breechelle's shop that was funded by Jack Mulligan.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Alice's first and seemingly only client when she becomes a sex worker just so happens to be [[spoiler:a real estate developer with the right connections to identify the building the widows need to rob, just from a blueprint]].
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Alice's first and seemingly only client when she becomes a sex worker just so happens to be [[spoiler:a real estate developer with the right connections to identify the building with the widows need to rob, money, just from a blueprint]].blueprint]].
** Belle, Linda's babysitter, works at Breechelle's shop that was funded by Jack Mulligan.
** Belle, Linda's babysitter, works at Breechelle's shop that was funded by Jack Mulligan.
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* MockMillionaire: While not quite that rich, Linda learns the hard way she falls into this category. She assumed she was doing well with her shop and always giving the monthly lease payments to her husband to pay off as well as the takes from his robberies. It turns out he just spent all that money at the racetrack and made a slew of bad gambles. Linda had no idea until she comes to her shop to find a bunch of gangsters tearing it up, telling them that her husband sold them the deed to pay off his debts, but still died owing them a lot, so they're just cleaning her out. This instant bankruptcy pushes Linda to join Veronica's plan.
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* MockMillionaire: While not quite that rich, Linda learns the hard way she falls into this category. She assumed she was doing well with her shop and always giving the monthly lease payments to her husband to pay off as well as the takes from his robberies. It turns out he just spent all that money at the racetrack and made a slew of bad gambles. Linda had no idea until she comes to her shop to find a bunch of gangsters tearing it up, telling them that her husband sold them the deed to pay off his debts, but died still died owing them a lot, them, so they're just cleaning her out. This instant bankruptcy pushes Linda to join Veronica's heist plan.
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* BoomHeadshot: Jatemme does this to one of the guards that was rapping during the theft of his brother's campaign money.
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* AdultFear: Harry and Veronica's son is pulled over by police while driving a nice car. He is shot multiple times by a police officer while reaching for his cell phone.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Harry and Veronica's son is pulled over by police while driving a nice car. He is shot multiple times by a police officer while reaching for his cell phone.
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is [[TheFilmOfTheSeries based on]] [[Series/{{Widows}} the 1983 ITV series of the same name]].
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Harry and Veronica's son is shot dead by the cops who pull him over, because he dropped his cell phone then leaned over to get it, seeming like a gun in their eyes. He was on the phone not listening when they ordered him to show his hands. Of course, him being a young Black man did not help, and they clearly were suspicious of him as he was in a very nice car (which they probably thought he stole) after pulling him over for making a U-turn.
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[spoiler:Jatemme tortures Bobby Welsh to get information out of him, knocking out of his wheelchair and puncturing him repeatedly with his knife.]]
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: [[spoiler:Jatemme tortures Bobby Welsh to get information out of him, knocking him out of his wheelchair and puncturing him repeatedly with his knife.]]
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Alice is sent to get a van for the heist... even if she can't drive, meaning Veronica needs to arrive to take the car away.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: DidntThinkThisThrough:
** [[PlethoraOfMistakes A lot of mistakes are made]] in the preparation for the heist and during it, as one would expect from a group of women who barely know each other and have almost zero criminal experience.
** Alice is sent to get a van for the heist... even if she can't drive, meaning Veronica needs to arrive to take the car away.
** [[PlethoraOfMistakes A lot of mistakes are made]] in the preparation for the heist and during it, as one would expect from a group of women who barely know each other and have almost zero criminal experience.
** Alice is sent to get a van for the heist... even if she can't drive, meaning Veronica needs to arrive to take the car away.
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: What's to be expected [[RealityEnsues when several housewives have to turn to using guns for the first time]]. Linda and Alice start out pretty badly during their first practice at the gun range, Linda in particular finding to her dismay that every one of her bullets missed the target. [[spoiler:Ironically, she ends up shooting Tom Mulligan when the heist escalates into a gunfight.]]
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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: What's to be expected [[RealityEnsues when several housewives have to turn to using guns for the first time]].time. Linda and Alice start out pretty badly during their first practice at the gun range, Linda in particular finding to her dismay that every one of her bullets missed the target. [[spoiler:Ironically, she ends up shooting Tom Mulligan when the heist escalates into a gunfight.]]
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* RealityEnsues: [[PlethoraOfMistakes A lot of mistakes are made]] in the preparation for the heist and during it, as one would expect from a group of women who barely know each other and have almost zero criminal expierence.
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The movie stars [[AllStarCast *deep breath*]] Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MichelleRodriguez, Creator/CynthiaErivo, Creator/ElizabethDebicki, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/BrianTyreeHenry, Creator/DanielKaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Creator/CarrieCoon, Creator/Duvall, Robert Duvall, and Creator/LiamNeeson. The movie premiered at the 2018 Toronto Internationa Film Festival ahead of a November 16 release.
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The movie stars [[AllStarCast *deep breath*]] Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MichelleRodriguez, Creator/CynthiaErivo, Creator/ElizabethDebicki, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/BrianTyreeHenry, Creator/DanielKaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Creator/CarrieCoon, Creator/Duvall, Robert Duvall, Creator/RobertDuvall, and Creator/LiamNeeson. The movie premiered at the 2018 Toronto Internationa Film Festival ahead of a November 16 release.
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is [[TheFilmOfTheSeries based on]] [[''Series/{{Widows}}'' the 1983 ITV series of the same name]].
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is [[TheFilmOfTheSeries based on]] [[''Series/{{Widows}}'' [[Series/{{Widows}} the 1983 ITV series of the same name]].
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is [[TheFilmOfTheSeries based on]] [[''Series/Widows'' [[''Series/{{Widows}}'' the 1983 ITV series of the same name]].
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is [[TheFilmOfTheSeries based on]] [[Series/Widows [[''Series/Widows'' the 1983 ITV series of the same name]].
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is based on [[TheFilmOfTheSeries based on]] [[Series/Widows the 1983 ITV series of the same name]].
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The Widows TV miniseries was made for Britain's commercial channel ITV, not for the BBC
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'''Widows''' is a 2018 CrimeFiction {{Thriller}} directed by Creator/SteveMcQueenDirector (''Film/TwelveYearsASlave'') and written by him and Creator/GillianFlynn (''Literature/GoneGirl''). It is based on [[TheFilmOfTheSeries the 1983 BBC ITV series of the same name]].
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* ClarkKentOutfit: In the climax, Veronica is in a tank top that shows how well built she is under the cardigans and blazers.
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* FourGirlEnsemble: The wives are older than most examples but still qualify. Alice is the most naive and somewhat ditzy of the four. Belle with her running and boxing skills is the tomboyish one. Linda downplays elements of the glamorous one, but she does own a dress shop and at one point uses kissing to escape an awkward situation. Veronica is the ringleader and the wise one.
* HighClassCallGirl: Alice attempts to be this. At one point, she becomes TheMistress to a millionaire called David.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Jatemme trying to rob the women of the heist money moments after it was taken bites him in the ass when they chase after him in his own car and make him crash]].
* HighClassCallGirl: Alice attempts to be this. At one point, she becomes TheMistress to a millionaire called David.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Jatemme trying to rob the women of the heist money moments after it was taken bites him in the ass when they chase after him in his own car and make him crash]].
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* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: Alice's gold dress she wears when first becoming a call girl. The costume designer intentionally wanted it to look tacky, and Linda's line comparing it a condom was ad-libbed by Michelle Rodriguez.
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* PerpetualFrowner: Both Linda and Veronica prove to be, which is justified given their circumstances.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Alice has a non-verbal one where after Veronica slut shames her and even slaps her, Alice delivers a massive slap right back - showing she is done taking Veronica's bull.
* SlutShaming: When Alice doesn't like her mother's suggestion of becoming a prostitute, Agnieska cruelly reminds her of all the boys she was with as a teenager.
* SlutShaming: When Alice doesn't like her mother's suggestion of becoming a prostitute, Agnieska cruelly reminds her of all the boys she was with as a teenager.
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* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: Alice's mother pulls this trick on her to convince her to become a call girl.
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* BilingualBonus / JustForPun: When Jack Mulligan is introduced to Jatemme for the first time, he says, "I love you too," a riff on how Jatemme's name sounds like "Je t'aime", which means "I love you" in French.
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* BilingualBonus / JustForPun: BilingualBonus: When Jack Mulligan is introduced to Jatemme for the first time, he says, "I love you too," a riff on how Jatemme's name sounds like "Je t'aime", which means "I love you" in French.
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The movie stars [[AllStarCast *deep breath*]] Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MichelleRodriguez, Creator/CynthiaErivo, Creator/ElizabethDebicki, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/BrianTyreeHenry, Creator/DanielKaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Creator/CarrieCoon, Robert Duvall, and Creator/LiamNeeson. The movie premiered at the 2018 Toronto Internationa Film Festival ahead of a November 16 release.
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The movie stars [[AllStarCast *deep breath*]] Creator/ViolaDavis, Creator/MichelleRodriguez, Creator/CynthiaErivo, Creator/ElizabethDebicki, Creator/ColinFarrell, Creator/BrianTyreeHenry, Creator/DanielKaluuya, Jacki Weaver, Creator/CarrieCoon, Creator/Duvall, Robert Duvall, and Creator/LiamNeeson. The movie premiered at the 2018 Toronto Internationa Film Festival ahead of a November 16 release.
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Harry hoped that Veronica would sell the book to the Mannings, leading them to rob the Mulligans and hopefully kill Jack, allowing Harry to get away with all the money. Veronica messes up his plan by keeping the book and robbing the Mulligans herself.]]
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* BlackIsBiggerInBed: Jack asks Siobhan if she’s ever been with a black guy, and she tells him he needs to be more concerned about his struggling campaign than the comparative size of his anatomy.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap:
** Alice receives one from her mom early on when she talks back to her.
** Veronica and Alice give each other later on when they have an argument.
** Alice receives one from her mom early on when she talks back to her.
** Veronica and Alice give each other later on when they have an argument.
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* CountryMatters: Alice refers to Veronica by the word due to Veronica's abrasive attitude towards her.
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* CountryMatters: Alice refers to Veronica by the word due to Veronica's abrasive attitude towards her. She voices her disapproval of the word, to which Alice uses it again.
