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* FanPreferredCutContent: The deleted scene confirming that Coach Popper was gay would have added considerably more to both his characterization and Ruth's.
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* HollywoodHomely: Ruth is meant to be seen as plain, but Cloris Leachman is pretty gorgeous. She may later have been typecast as ugly old women in {{Gonk}} makeup, but she had previously won beauty pageants before she became an actress. Her shyness however makes it very believable that she wouldn't be seen as desirable though.
* JerkassWoobie: Lois Farrow is a pretty lousy mother and not particularly nice to anyone, but TheReveal that [[spoiler: she was the one that got away for Sam, her heartbroken reaction to his death]] and the fact that she's bored with life makes her very sympathetic.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Cloris Leachman was already getting notice from this and ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', but she would become even more famous as of ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' a few years later.
* JerkassWoobie: Lois Farrow is a pretty lousy mother and not particularly nice to anyone, but TheReveal that [[spoiler: she was the one that got away for Sam, her heartbroken reaction to his death]] and the fact that she's bored with life makes her very sympathetic.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Cloris Leachman was already getting notice from this and ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', but she would become even more famous as of ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'' a few years later.
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* TheWoobie: The film touches on it, but the novel explains in detail that Sam the Lion had a miserable life, and the townsfolk view him as a Woobie in-universe. He had multiple failed business ventures up until he bought the theater, pool hall and café. He had three sons who all died in tragic accidents. And his wife had years of mental illness before she died.
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* TheWoobie: ValuesDissonance: The way the film presents Sonny's affair with Ruth. Particularly that it's meant to be a low moment for him when he jilts her in favour of Jacy. Ruth is 40, and Sonny is still in high school when their affair starts, and Jacy is his age.
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** The film touches on it, but the novel explains in detail that Sam the Lion had a miserable life, and the townsfolk view him as a Woobie in-universe. He had multiple failed business ventures up until he bought the theater, pool hall and café. He had three sons who all died in tragic accidents. And his wife had years of mental illness before shedied.died.
** Ruth is a lonely housewife who doesn't appear to have any friends, and it's implied that her husband is gay, so their marriage is pretty loveless. While the affair with the teenage Sonny raises eyebrows, she gets spurned by him in favour of Jacy, and she's very easy to pity as a result.
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** The film touches on it, but the novel explains in detail that Sam the Lion had a miserable life, and the townsfolk view him as a Woobie in-universe. He had multiple failed business ventures up until he bought the theater, pool hall and café. He had three sons who all died in tragic accidents. And his wife had years of mental illness before she
** Ruth is a lonely housewife who doesn't appear to have any friends, and it's implied that her husband is gay, so their marriage is pretty loveless. While the affair with the teenage Sonny raises eyebrows, she gets spurned by him in favour of Jacy, and she's very easy to pity as a result.
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* ToughActToFollow: For its director Creator/PeterBogdanovich.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Cybil Shepard's topless scene in the skinny-dipping scene.
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* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Cybil Shepard's topless scene in the skinny-dipping scene.
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* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:Billy's death and Sonny's reaction hits even harder with the knowledge that the two are played by real-life brothers, and that Sam Bottoms died at the age of 53, with his brother outliving him.]]
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* ToughActToFollow: For its director Peter Bogdanovich.
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* ToughActToFollow: For its director Peter Bogdanovich.
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* AwardSnub: The Supporting Oscars for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman were well-deserved, but despite the amazing DeliberatelyMonochrome camera work by Robert Surtees, it lost Best Cinematography to ''Film/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.[[note]]Of course, Surtees had already won three Oscars by that time, ''and'' was actually competing against himself that year (for ''Film/SummerOf42'')[[/note]]
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* AwardSnub: The Supporting Oscars for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman Creator/ClorisLeachman were well-deserved, but despite the amazing DeliberatelyMonochrome camera work by Robert Surtees, it lost Best Cinematography to ''Film/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.[[note]]Of course, Surtees had already won three Oscars by that time, ''and'' was actually competing against himself that year (for ''Film/SummerOf42'')[[/note]]
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* ToughActToFollow: For its director Peter Bogdanovich.
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* TheWoobie: The film touches on it, but the novel explains in detail that Sam the Lion had a miserable life, and the townsfolk view him as a Woobie in-universe. He had multiple failed business ventures up until he bought the theater, pool hall and café. He had three sons who all died in tragic accidents. And his wife had years of mental illness before she died.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Ben Johnson won his Oscar with just under 10 minutes of screen time, with Sam's monologue when he goes fishing with Sonny basically clinching the award for him. Similarly, it was her work in the final scene that earned Cloris Leachman her Oscar.
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* AwardSnub: The Supporting Oscars for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman were well-deserved, but despite the amazing DeliberatelyMonochrome camera work by Robert Surtees, it lost Best Cinematography to ''Film/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.[[note]]Of course, Surtees had already won three Oscars by that time.[[/note]]time, ''and'' was actually competing against himself that year (for ''Film/SummerOf42'')[[/note]]
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* AwardSnub: The Supporting Oscars for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman were well-deserved, but despite the amazing DeliberatelyMonochrome camera work by Robert Surtees, it lost Best Cinematography to ''Film/FiddlerOnTheRoof''.[[note]]Of course, Surtees had already won three Oscars by that time.[[/note]]
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Billy]]'s sudden death at the end.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Sam's]] death, all the more so because we learn about it secondhand just like Sonny and Duane, plus [[spoiler:Billy]]'s sudden death at the end.
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* ToughActToFollow: For it's director Peter Bogdanovich. While he was able to follow up with a handful of critical and box-office success in the early 70's, with the exception of "Mask", none of his movie from the late 70's onward weren't not as successful and none were able to match the acclaim of this movie.
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* ToughActToFollow: For it's director Peter Bogdanovich. While he was able to follow up with a handful of critical and box-office success in the early 70's, with the exception of "Mask", none of his movie from the late 70's onward weren't not as successful and none were able to match the acclaim of this movie.
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* ToughActToFollow: For it's director Peter Bogdanovich. While he was able to follow up with a handful of critical and box-office success in the early 70's. With the exception of "Mask", none of his movie from the late 70's onward weren't not as successful and none were able to match the acclaim of this movie.
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* ToughActToFollow: For it's director Peter Bogdanovich. While he was able to follow up with a handful of critical and box-office success in the early 70's. With 70's, with the exception of "Mask", none of his movie from the late 70's onward weren't not as successful and none were able to match the acclaim of this movie.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Billy]]'s sudden death at the end.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Billy]]'s sudden death at the end.end.
* ToughActToFollow: For it's director Peter Bogdanovich. While he was able to follow up with a handful of critical and box-office success in the early 70's. With the exception of "Mask", none of his movie from the late 70's onward weren't not as successful and none were able to match the acclaim of this movie.
* ToughActToFollow: For it's director Peter Bogdanovich. While he was able to follow up with a handful of critical and box-office success in the early 70's. With the exception of "Mask", none of his movie from the late 70's onward weren't not as successful and none were able to match the acclaim of this movie.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Billy]]'s sudden death at the end.
