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3 | ''Chalet Girl'' is a 2011 British-German-Austrian RomanticComedy starring Creator/FelicityJones and Creator/EdWestwick (''Literature/GossipGirl''). |
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5 | Kim Mathews (Creator/FelicityJones) was a skateboarding child prodigy with many awards to her name, but her career came to a halt when her mother died and Kim had to give up onboarding to be able to help her father Bill (Music/BillBailey) at home. While searching for a job with better pay, she lands a job as a Chalet Girl in Austria. |
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7 | She get's a cold welcome from her fellow Chalet Girl Georgie (Creator/TamsinEgerton) and meets her employers the Madsens family: Richard (Creator/BillNighy), his wife Caroline (Creator/BrookeShields) and their son John (Creator/EdWestwick) who she's instantly attracted to. The two start an unconventional romance, made complicated by his mother's disapproval and him already being engaged to his girlfriend Chloe (Creator/SophiaBush). |
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9 | During that, Kim renews her passion for sports by learning snowboarding from friendly local Mikki (Ken Duken) and enters the local competition to win the prize money. |
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13 | !!This film provides examples of: |
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15 | * BetaCouple: Mikki and Georgie. |
16 | * BirthdaySuitSurpriseParty: PlayedWith. Georgie throws Kim a birthday party at the Chalet and are [[PublicBathhouseScene all hanging out in the hot tub]] when a drunk Kim gets out to dance in the snow... just when the Chalet owners arrive to catch her naked, including her LoveInterest John. Cue NakedFreakOut. |
17 | * BumblingDad: Kim's father Bill who can barely live by himself without his daughter's help. |
18 | * BurgerFool: Kim is stuck working in a fast-food burger bar since her mother died. |
19 | * ChildProdigy: Kim was a skateboarding prodigy, started competing when she was seven and won her first award at eleven. |
20 | * CrashIntoHello: Kim and Mike's first meeting is when he crashed into her while snowboarding. |
21 | * CuteClumsyGirl: Kim can be quite clumsy at times, the first thing she did upon arriving in Austria was putting her baggage in the wrong place and almost losing it. |
22 | * DaddysGirl: Kim is very devoted to her father and the two are very close. |
23 | * DeadpanSnarker: Kim and Georgie snark constantly, with each other and even with their employers. |
24 | * DefrostingIceQueen: Georgie is very cold to Kim at first but mellows out to her through the movie. |
25 | * DisposableFiance: Chloe to John. He breaks up with her to be with Kim during their engagement party. She's understandably pissed off. |
26 | * TheDutifulDaughter: After her mother dies, Kim takes over all her mother's responsibilities as a housewife to help her struggling father. |
27 | * FallenOnHardTimesJob: The movie's premise, former skater boarding champion is stuck working first as a BurgerFool then as the titular Chalet Girl. |
28 | * FamilyVersusCareer: Kim has to give up her skateboarding career in order to help her widowed father pay the bills. |
29 | * GoodParents: Kim's parents who are completely supportive in her unusual sports career. |
30 | * GroinAttack: Chloe does this to John after he breaks up with her in the middle of their engagement party. |
31 | * HandOrObjectUnderwear: Mikki covers himself with his hands when getting into the hot tub. Kim also covers herself with a pair of giant mittens when she stands naked in front of the Madsens’ car. |
32 | * HomeEarlySurprise: The Madsens happen to arrive early than expected and catch Georgie and Kim having a hot tub birthday party. They also happen to arrive just as a drunk Kim decided to dance in the snow while naked. |
33 | * JobTitle: The move follows Kim working as a ''Chalet Girl'' in the Alps. |
34 | * {{Mentor|s}}: Mikki teaches Kim about snowboarding, which she picks up quick thanks to her natural talent at skateboarding. |
35 | * MenCantKeepHouse: Bill struggles with domestic tasks and Kim is worried about leaving him to fend for himself. |
36 | * MissingMom: Kim's mother died in a car crash when she was a teen, which caused her to quit her sports career for a while. |
37 | * NakedFreakOut: Kim has a mute one when she realizes she's naked in front of John and the rest of his family. |
38 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: The hot tub party Georgie throws for Kim has Kim and Mikki playing in the snow in the buff, all PlayedForLaughs. |
39 | * NiceToTheWaiter: John's family is quite friendly with Georgie and Kim, although that changes when Caroline learns John is dating "a chalet girl." |
40 | * PassionateSportsGirl: Kim, who used to be a skateboard champion, and learns how to snowboard easily. |
41 | * PreppyName: Amusingly realized when Kim's humble, more ordinary background is instantly apparent during a roll-call of her fellow (far Sloanier) chalet girls: |
42 | -->"I'm Henrietta", "Isabella", "Petronella"......"um, Kim." |
43 | * ProductPlacement: In one scene, Georgie can be seen using a Platform/NintendoWii to play ''VideoGame/PunchOut''. |
44 | * ReallyGetsAround: Georgie who slept with half of the resort according to John. |
45 | * ServileSnarker: Kim tends to snark often to the Madsens. |
46 | * SoulSuckingRetailJob: Kim considers her job at the fast-food burger to be this. |
47 | * TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Kim goes during one before landing the titular job as a Chalet Girl. |
48 | * ToplessnessFromTheBack: Kim when [[SexySurfacingShot surfaces]] from the hot tub to play in the snow, she has her bare back to the camera, with a brief ShouldersUpNudity shot from the front. |
49 | * {{Uptown G|irl}}uy: Kim and John's romance. |
50 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Georgie starts the movie acting very snobbish towards Kim, but they eventually warm up to each other while still trading snarky lines at the other's expense. |
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