Line #53 Film/Hollidaysburg


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3	''Hollidaysburg'' is a 2014 coming-of-age indie film, and the debut of writer/director Anna Martemucci (now known professionally as A.M. Lukas).
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5	In [[ThePlace Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania]] (a central PA suburb of Altoona), a group of high school friends reunite during a Thanksgiving break from their college classes. Former prom king and college freshman Scott is dumped in the middle of sex by his girlfriend Heather, who seems to be having a mental health crisis, and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Tori, a former wallflower emerging from the shadow of her high school best friend Katie. As the two warm up to each other and embark on some wacky antics, their relationship starts to turn into something deeper.
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7	The process of this movie being made was documented on the SetBehindTheScenes RealityShow ''Series/TheChair2014'' on Creator/{{Starz}}, which documented Martemucci and WebVideo/ShaneDawson as they both set to make different films from the same script (Dawson's being ''Film/NotCool''). Of the two, while ''Not Cool'' ended up winning the series, ''Hollidaysburg'' was ''significantly'' better-received by critics.
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11	* AdaptedOut: Scott's parents, who are relatively major characters in the original screenplay, don't appear at all in this movie, with Martemucci making the major change to the plot that rather than being ''about'' to move to Florida they ''already have'' moved to Florida, Scott's mother appearing only in the form of a voice on the phone. This script also completely removes the EthnicScrappy character of Fong (who became Shareef in ''Not Cool''), the party host, and replaces Janie and Joel with the CompositeCharacter Katie.
12	* AdaptationalHeroism: The original script had a somewhat cliché scenario with Heather inspiring her new LoveInterest from the WrongSideOfTheTracks, William, to make something better of himself by leveraging his skill as a cook. ''Hollidaysburg'' inverts this, with Petroff ''already'' working as a cook, and being the one to tell Heather that upward mobility in the no-college-degree minimum-wage world isn't what it's cracked up to be, in order to discourage her from her plan to drop out of school.
13	* AdaptationalSexuality: This movie changes Tori's older sister Marissa and her fiancé Gil from the original screenplay into a lesbian couple, Angela and Courtney, and [[AdaptationalHeroism makes them much more sympathetic characters]] along the way. This was possibly to avoid [[spoiler:keeping TheReveal that Janie/Katie is a lesbian from the screenplay while also making her a much more unlikable character and showing the reveal in a much more negative context]].
14	* TheAlcoholic: Phil is a great deal more embarrassed about being a wino than TheStoner (including keeping a box of wine ''in his car''). One of the ominous signs of Scott following in his footsteps is him binge-drinking at Katie's party to take his mind off of his life situation.
15	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Toned down a lot from the original screenplay (to say nothing of Shane Dawson's interpretation of it in ''Not Cool''), but Tori's parents in this film are just as mortifying in their overbearingly [=WASPy=] repressed way.
16	* AmbiguousEnding: The movie deliberately does this, ending without a clear resolution on any of the romantic arcs we've seen ([[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistically enough]], since the movie took place over the course of only a few days) with Tori giving us a narration about how people change every day and the future is unpredictable. In particular, even though Scott and Tori have had sex, all the obstacles to their relationship Tori named are still present and it's unclear if they're going to maintain a long-distance romance or leave their hookup in the past. Heather also goes back to school at Penn State -- because her dad essentially forced her to -- with no clear answer on whether she's going to go through with her plans to drop out in the end, and if her OddFriendship with Petroff will blossom into anything more.
17	* AmusingInjuries: A low-key RunningGag but one that is PlayedForLaughs -- Scott steadily accumulates bruises and cuts on his face as he gets beat up over the weekend, first from being hit by Tori's car, then from being attacked by Trish with a baseball bat, then in his final fight with Petroff at the party. Lampshaded when Petroff tries to apologize for hitting him and Scott waves it off as being a drop in the bucket.
18	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Even though this movie says several times that Tori has come home to the Altoona area from Pittsburgh (which is about 100 miles away), the movie was filmed in Pittsburgh and the local landmarks Scott takes Tori to are all well-known Pittsburgh locations. Tori similarly pulls a bit of a stretch in her final narration -- John Updike's hometown of Reading is "not far from Hollidaysburg" compared to the rest of the country, maybe, but it's almost 200 miles away and considered southeastern PA rather than central PA.
19	* AsianAndNerdy: Played with. Heather, who is half-Asian, is far from a nerd -- she was the most popular girl in school -- but she was known as the high-achieving [[TheSmartGuy smart girl]] that whole time, and everyone is taken aback by the depth of her transformation due to depression.
20	* AuthorAppeal: One reason Martemucci was drawn to ''The Chair'' was that she herself grew up in State College, PA and attended Penn State, and wanted to do a love letter to central Pennsylvania (just as executive producer Creator/ZacharyQuinto grew up in Green Tree and went to school at CMU).
21	* AuthorAvatar: For fans of ''The Chair'', it's hard not to see this version of Tori (who is very, very different from the character in Dan Schoffer's original screenplay ''How Soon Is Now'') as one for creator Anna Martemucci -- sensitive, dorky, and [[ExtremeDoormat struggling with standing up for herself and her own desires]] against both her enemies and the people she loves and relies on.
22	* BasementDweller: Petroff's living situation. Scott, in his desperation not to give up his old life and old social circle despite his parents moving to Florida, proposes that moving in with Petroff might not be so bad; Petroff gently shuts him down.
23	* BigBrotherMentor: Phil is this for Scott, with Tori telling us that Scott was a BigManOnCampus mainly because he's followed in Phil's footsteps. A bit of a deconstructed trope, since Phil has grown up into TheStoner and a {{NEET}} and Scott is aware of this.
24	* BigManOnCampus: Scott is a former one of these, with a dash of also being the JerkJock. He had a full-on psychological breakdown at UCLA from constantly feeling AloneInACrowd because "nobody returns my high-fives".
25	* BitingTheHandHumor: The SeinfeldianConversation among the single guys Phil and Scott invited to have Thanksgiving dinner at a diner turns to Bobby Lancaster, the "worst-behaved, most horniest kid I ever met", speculating that he either ended up in jail or "on a RealityShow". This film, of course, was created as the result of a [[Series/TheChair2014 reality show]], although a different genre of reality show than the one they're talking about.
26	* CerebusSyndrome: This film is the result of Anna Martemucci taking Dan Schoffer's idea for a light, fluffy teen comedy and making it a good deal grittier and more serious.
27	* ClassClown: Scott, which is very much the basis of his BigManOnCampus popularity and his most endearing trait. Heather making him go through his repertoire of impressions as their last farewell to each other is both funny and sad. It's a trait he inherited from his brother Phil, who bonds with him over comparing their ridiculous senior class pictures and their competition over who could {{Troll}} the photographer harder by including increasingly absurd accessories.
28	* ColorblindCasting: Claire Chapelli, who plays Heather, is Latina (of Cuban descent), despite the fact that Heather's mom is Asian.
29	* ComingOfAgeStory: The point of this film is Tori, Scott and Heather all realizing how much they've changed -- for better and for worse -- since leaving their hometown to go to college.
30	* CompositeCharacter: The original screenplay's "[[BetaCouple Gamma Couple]]", Janie and Joel, was cut out from this film completely, with their role in the story of the other two couples (with Janie as Heather's best friend and Joel as Tori's) replaced in BroadStrokes by the character of Tori's best friend Katie. [[spoiler: The primary thing that carries over is the surprise reveal that Katie is a lesbian.]]
31	* ContrastMontage: Black Friday, where we see Scott and Tori's "field trip" where Scott shows her around the scenic spots of her own hometown interspersed with Petroff making Heather help him out at work at the pizzeria so she can get an idea of what life after dropping out of college might be like. Doubles as a FallingInLoveMontage for them both.
32	* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Scott and Petroff, although it seems like Petroff didn't clearly become the "loser" in their friendship until after he ended up not going to college due to his family financial issues.
33	* CreatorCameo: Writer/director Anna Martemucci shows up as Tori's future sister-in-law Courtney. (As a bit of a CreatorInJoke, Courtney has a vocal chord injury and doesn't talk much.)
34	* DeadpanSnarker: Heather, who gets in plenty of BlackComedy jabs at herself and her own depressive state.
35	-->'''Heather''': I totally pushed a kid off the swings once to get an erection.
36	-->'''Petroff''': ...There's [[CrossesTheLineTwice so much I don't understand]] about that joke.
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38	-->'''Petroff''': Hey, what are you gonna do for the rest of break?
39	-->'''Heather''': Probably eat a kielbasa and google school shootings.
40	* DecompositeCharacter: Phil and Petroff come off as this for the character of William from the original screenplay, with both of them being TheStoner but Phil being the one who has a more positive, BigBrotherMentor relationship with Scott (so that Scott can have a more realistically hostile relationship with Petroff after Petroff ambiguously becomes Heather's new LoveInterest). One of the realistic edits Martemucci made from Schoffer's screenplay is Schoffer having Scott and William play basketball with each other while they have a conversation hashing out their issues with each other, whereas the finished film prominently features Scott standing up Petroff for their basketball date and this conversation never really happening.
41	* DescentIntoAddiction: It's mostly tongue-in-cheek, but Petroff expresses worry that by selling Heather weed he's enabling this trope for the former high-achieving princess.
42	* EducationMama: Subverted. Heather's Asian mom is the one who just shrugs off the idea that she's dropping out of school, saying that she should take it up with her (white) father, who [[FantasyForbiddingFather becomes incensed at the idea]].
43	* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Heather wears her hair up in a messy bun with a headband for most of the movie, which is a clear contrast with the few glimpses we get of her in photos of her glory days in high school when her hair was [[LongHairIsFeminine long, flowing and well-conditioned]]. Her showing up at the party on Friday with her hair down and in a simple braid is meant to be a sign she's starting to feel better, and possibly that she's washed it for the first time in a while.
44	* ExtremeDoormat: Tori, who's apparently used to first her parents then her best friend Katie treating her like a possession and scheduling her entire life for her.
45	* FieryRedhead: Katie, who's a highly negative example of this trope. She's not actively malicious enough to be an EvilRedhead, but she certainly fits the stereotype of having a hot temper and ItsAllAboutMe attitude.
46	* {{Flashback}}: We aren't shown the details of Scott and Heather's breakup until his HeroicBSOD after the party on Friday, where Heather talks in detail about her own dark epiphany that high school is over and she's a completely different person than who she was, and we learn that Scott has had a similar experience and is in full-blown [[IRejectYourReality psychological denial over it]].
47	* FlyoverCountry: There's a lot of visual "ruin porn" in this movie, showing us the faded glories of the unfashionable and abandoned parts of the United States, and the angst of the young adults born and raised here who hope to escape to New York or LA. (Scott mentions that the main thing Hollidaysburg has going for it is that it's the "[[https://americanprofile.com/articles/home-of-the-slinky/ home of the Slinky]]".)
48	* FullFrontalAssault: Trish, the old lady who's [[BerserkButton so ticked off]] by Scott peeing against a tree in her yard that she comes out to attack him with a baseball bat wearing nothing but a robe that is flapping completely open ([[FunnyBackgroundEvent while Tori is completely oblivious and texting with Katie in the car]]). Made even better by how, after she's driven Scott away, she casually greets her neighbor (played by co-producer Victor Quinaz) making no effort to cover herself up.
49	* TheGhost:
50	** Scott and Phil's parents, who, unbeknownst to Scott, have already moved to Florida before the start of the movie.
51	** Also true of Petroff's mom, whom he lives with and has a strained relationship with but who never appears onscreen, apparently having a highly demanding job that keeps her out of the house (which it's implied contributed heavily to his issues).
52	* GloryDays: Scott and Heather are both having an emotional crisis over the idea that they peaked in high school -- which, given the small and unglamorous community they come from, is pretty damn sad. A strong contrast to Tori, who is only just now coming into herself after spending high school as an invisible wallflower. For his part, Scott has a clear vision of the kind of JadedWashout he might become in the form of his older brother Phil, and is struggling over whether becoming Phil would really be such a bad thing.
53	* HeroicBSOD: Both Scott and Heather had some kind of psychological breakdown during their first semester at college; in Scott's case we hear him tell Tori it's over an extreme loneliness he can only describe in the hilariously petty terms "Nobody returns my high fives." Scott has a second one after seeing Heather with Petroff at the party, where he's unable to maintain his barrier of denial and finally breaks down violently in his room.
54	* HypocriticalHumor: Heather's dad [[BerserkButton lashes out furiously at her]] for her desire to "throw her life away" by dropping out of college and becoming a waitress at his restaurant, only for her stepmom -- whom he ''met while she was a waitress at his restaurant'' -- to innocently ask what's so bad about being a waitress.
55	* IdealizedSex: Deliberately averted -- much more than the glossy teen comedy of the original screenplay, this film focuses on the awkwardness and messiness of real-life sex, especially sex among teens and inexperienced young adults, including giving Scott the indignity of a PrematureEjaculation during his and Tori's first time.
56	* TheImmodestOrgasm: Just making out with Scott is a fulfillment of such a long-held fantasy for Tori that she spontaneously comes with all her clothes still on, something she tries to hide but he immediately notices.
57	* ImpossibleTask: Phil spends the weekend going down a bizarre rabbit hole -- possibly drug-fueled -- where, after having tried and failed to recycle the family's leftover Halloween pumpkins into a decent pie, he is obsessively trying to recreate his father's famous pumpkin pie recipe from scratch. After baking ''hundreds'' of pies until he finally succeeds, he breaks down and admits to Scott this whole quest has been a psychological proxy for his frustrated desire to become a father himself.
58	* {{Improv}}: Martemucci revealed the funniest line in the film -- "This evaporated milk, should I be worried about it evaporating?" -- was improvised by Phil Quinaz.
59	* InNameOnly: Original screenwriter Dan Schoffer and director Anna Martemucci end up agreeing that Martemucci (with help from her husband and co-producer Victor Quinaz) has made so many changes to his script that it isn't the same story at all anymore, and Schoffer only remains credited as the writer of the film because of WGA union rules. (Interestingly, despite all the trademark "WebVideo/ShaneDawson humor" added to ''Not Cool'', Schoffer ''does'' think of that movie as essentially faithful to his vision and a movie he was willing to put his support behind.)
60	* IRejectYourReality: We eventually learn how the bizarre miscommunication happened that had Scott come home to Hollidaysburg for Thanksgiving even though his parents have already moved to Florida -- Scott ''actually did know'' but went into deep denial over this, including deliberately cutting off contact from his parents for weeks so they couldn't tell him not to come, because he is [[HeroicBSOD deeply mentally unwell]].
61	* ItsAllAboutMe: Katie seems to think it's only natural to treat Tori, Scott, Heather and Petroff's tangled relationship issues as though they did it to spite her personally.
62	* {{Jerkass}}: Katie, who used to bully and control Tori to an absurd degree, is an incorrigible [[GossipyHens gossip]] and hypocritical [[SlutShaming slut-shamer]], casually drops racist remarks and makes fun of Courtney's vocal chord injury the moment she finds out about it, and flies into a jealous rage over the Scott/Heather/Tori/Petroff LoveDodecahedron that's none of her business. It's notable that Courtney wryly remarks that Katie sounds like a colorful character she'd like to meet only to be told they've ''already'' met, whereupon she [[VerbalBackspace corrects herself]] and says she doesn't like Katie at all. [[spoiler: Some but not all of this behavior can be excused or at least explained by the fact that she's apparently an ArmoredClosetGay.]]
63	* LastNameBasis: Will Petroffsky (who was known as "William" in Schoffer's original screenplay) is in this film known only as "Petroff", a shortening of his last name, and is one of many members of this social group who has a moniker like this (TruthInTelevision for tight-knit groups of school friends who need to distinguish between people with common first names like "Will").
64	* LimitedWardrobe: A lampshaded trope with Heather, who doesn't change out of her gray sweatshirt and sweatpants combo at all for most of the movie as a result of her depression (Scott even gives us some FanDisservice after they have sex by remarking on the fact she apparently hasn't showered in a while). Showing up in a new outfit at the party on Friday is a sign that Petroff has successfully started to get her to snap out of it.
65	* LoveDodecahedron: Scott and Heather are the former OfficialCouple who just broke up. Heather rebounds with Scott's best friend Petroff -- causing drama between the two of them -- while Scott rebounds with former high school nobody Tori, who used to idolize Heather and want to be her. This dredges up jealousy from Tori's best friend and Scott's ex Katie, even though Katie broke up with Scott years ago. [[spoiler: This turns out to be because Katie has been nursing a crush on Tori herself for years.]]
66	* {{Manchild}}: Phil is old enough that his immature behavior squarely classifies him as this; it's ambiguous as to whether Scott will follow in his footsteps. It's also notable that Scott's stoner friend Petroff ''averts'' this trope -- despite superficially being a loser and a druggie he's apparently the most responsible and mature person in the cast.
67	* MeaningfulName:
68	** "Petroff" (Will Petroffsky) is the Slavic surname form of "Peter", which means "rock". Petroff's role in the story is to serve as Heather's anchor during her emotional crisis.
69	** Tori is given the surname of ''Humil''ovich, appropriate for someone struggling with her self-esteem.
70	* TheNarrator: Tori. The BookEnds of the film are Tori's staring out the window of the bus between Pittsburgh and Hollidaysburg musing to herself in voiceover (and poking fun at herself over the FauxlosophicNarration).
71	* TheNicknamer: Scott, who still calls Tori "Poopdick" because of a school presentation where she mispronounced "poop deck". A trait inherited from his brother Phil, with an inside joke where the two of them call each other "Meesh" and "Moosh".
72	* NoodleIncident: This script is ''filled'' with them, some of which are eventually elaborated on but many of which aren't. A major theme of the film is the feeling of being part of a circle of school friends who've all known each other since childhood and knowing ''everyone's'' personal history going back years, and how this is both reassuring and stifling.
73	* OddFriendship: Heather and Petroff's ambiguous romance feels like this -- nothing overtly sexual or romantic happens between them, and she seems to latch onto Petroff mainly because she feels safe around him because he has no expectations of her (having known him for years as nothing but Scott's loser drug-dealing friend).
74	* OfficialCouple: In-universe, Scott and Heather used to be this and their breakup shakes up their whole social circle. Scott and Tori become the OfficialCouple of the movie, with Heather and Petroff the BetaCouple.
75	* OnlyInFlorida: We get a scene of Scott and Phil reading "Florida Man" articles to each other and joking about how they, too, will soon become Florida Men now that their parents have moved. We then find out that Tori's stepdad, Mitch, hails from Tallahassee and is every inch the Florida Man stereotype.
76	* ThePlace: ''The Chair'' initially stipulated that, since it was partially funded by a grant from a Pittsburgh arts organization, the films not only be produced and filmed in Pittsburgh but also keep Pittsburgh as the in-story setting. Martemucci ended up bending this rule -- the title town of Hollidaysburg (a suburb of Altoona) is 100 miles away from Pittsburgh, and indeed her version of the story has the "big city" Tori is coming home for Thanksgiving from ''be'' Pittsburgh (she's a student at Carnegie Mellon), despite the fact that the romantic ruined warehouse Scott takes Tori to is the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Furnace Carrie Furnace]] in Pittsburgh. Martemucci said the serendipity of "Hollidaysburg" as a DoubleMeaningTitle was too good to pass up (Hollidaysburg is a hometown that the kids who went away for college will increasingly only ever see for visits on holidays).
77	* PoolScene: Subverted. Petroff takes Heather to the house of a rich friend whose family owns a luxurious heated pool, but neither of them ends up swimming, instead sitting morosely at the side of the pool while [[TheStoner smoking up]] in awkward silence.
78	* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler: Katie's cruel and controlling behavior toward Tori turns out to be because she's been nursing a repressed crush on her for years. Martemucci probably [[AdaptationalSexuality had Tori's sister also be gay]] in her version of the script specifically to avoid the problems with this reveal.]]
79	* TheQuietOne: Courtney, enforced on her by having apparently strained her voice earlier this week.
80	* ThisIsReality: Martemucci's interpretation of Schoffer's script involves a lot of CerebusSyndrome-style edits to his scenarios to make them feel more real. The big one is the inciting incident of Tori hitting Scott in her car -- he imagined it as nothing but a MeetCute, but in this film they immediately bring up the question of whether Scott has a concussion and needs medical attention, and whether this will lead to Tori getting arrested for a DUI.
81	* RealMenCanCook:
82	** Scott and Phil's dad, who [[TheGhost never appears onscreen]]. Scott came home partly because he was desperately looking forward to his dad's cooking, and Phil is obsessed with recreating his dad's famous pumpkin pie recipe. There's some obvious {{Subtext}} -- with Scott and Phil otherwise living off of takeout the whole weekend and having Thanksgiving dinner at a cheap restaurant -- that his sons' inability to cook for themselves represents their immaturity and inability to grow beyond their boyhood.
83	** To a lesser extent, Heather's dad, who, like her mom, made his fortune in the restaurant business and gets effusive praise from her stepdad Mitch for his contribution to their Thanksgiving dinner.
84	** Notably, Petroff, who is the same age as Scott and at first appears to be cut from the same cloth as Scott and Phil, ''can'' cook -- that's his job, working at a local pizzeria in the kitchen -- and also ends up coming off as the most mature and thoughtful of the main characters, despite initial appearances.
85	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Petroff gives a very harsh one to Heather about Heather trying to "slum it" for the weekend and learn how to survive as a college dropout by imitating his example, pointing out that she's talking about throwing away a huge gift from her parents without even considering other options.
86	* RopeBridge: Scott and Tori have a cute moment during their "field trip" where they dare each other to cross a very long and shaky one of these. (Viewers of ''The Chair'' will note that this was [[TruthInTelevision Truth in Cinema]] -- hashing out the safety and liability issues of filming this scene was a big problem for Anna's shoot.)
87	* SeinfeldianConversation: Like many indie dramedies, Martemucci loves doing this -- a particular highlight is Angela and Courtney (played by Martemucci herself) derailing a conversation about the toxicity of Angela and Tori's parents into a debate about the proper way to pronounce the term "phyllo dough". Petroff and Heather's disjointed [[TheStoner stoner]] conversations are another highlight, especially Heather interrupting Petroff's long-winded and obviously insincere woolgathering about his plan to make a fortune speculating on oil in North Dakota to [[CrossesTheLineTwice joke about her fetish for abusing children]].
88	* SelfDeprecation: One of the many ways this script comes off as meta -- Tori snarks at herself that she's been "underlining a lot more sentences in books", which almost feels the same as actually being a sophisticated and educated person. The unavoidably pretentious flourish of ending her final monologue with a quote from Creator/JohnUpdike gets undercut by her mentioning it's "one of the quotes she's underlined".
89	* ShutUpKiss: Tori interrupts Scott's attempted confession of love with one. [[spoiler: She may have been inspired by Katie pulling this on her the previous night.]]
90	* {{Sidekick}}: Tori openly describes herself as having been one for Katie for her entire childhood and adolescence, and is only now trying to break out and become her own person.
91	* SleepingWithTheBoss: Both of Heather's parents were cheating on each other with someone who worked for them, and are now married to the person they were cheating with -- her dad with a waitress at his restaurant, her mom with the family auto mechanic.
92	* TheStoner: Phil and Petroff, who both verge on EruditeStoner at moments. Petroff is a more grounded version of this trope, whereas Phil gets most of the StonersAreFunny moments.
93	%%* StrugglingSingleMother: Petroff's unseen mom.
94	* TantrumThrowing: Phil has been nagging Scott to pack up his old room for the whole movie, and Scott resolutely refuses to touch anything in it until his nervous breakdown after seeing Heather with Will at Katie's party, whereupon he starts trashing everything in it in an orgy of despair over the end of his childhood.
95	* ThanksgivingEpisode: Takes place entirely over the five days of Thanksgiving weekend (from the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to the Sunday following).
96	* ToxicFriendInfluence: It's strongly hinted that Tori's old circle of high school friends is this for her and for the other characters (Scott, Heather, Petroff), although this is more about a lack of ambition and a willingness to coast on old GloryDays than the more lurid version of this trope about openly destructive criminal behavior. When Tori tries to give an example of why she wants to distance herself from these guys, she ends up telling us about a hilariously petty NoodleIncident about pranking "the only Russian kid in class" into thinking they were all high on heroin in order to trick him into asking them for heroin, [[ShaggyDogStory only for them to lamely reveal they didn't have any]].
97	* UptownGirl: Heather's relationship with Petroff, although the movie ends with it still ambiguous whether their relationship will become romantic or remain an InterclassFriendship. (Both of her parents have a similar story, her dad running off with a waitress from the restaurant he owns and her mom running off with the family auto mechanic.)
98	* WeAllDieSomeday: Heather says this as what seems to be a bizarre NonSequitur when Scott asks her why she wants to break up with him; it turns out that her general thoughts about mortality and impermanence are all mixed up with her general depression based on feeling like she's not the same person she was before graduation and has no idea what she wants to do with her life.
99	* WildTeenParty: A couple, but played more realistically and low-key than a typical teen comedy; even at their rowdiest the parties mostly just feature people talking on the couch. The final party that ends the movie -- Phil's farewell party at Phil and Scott's former home -- is a major aversion of this trope, taking place during the day rather than at night, and involving no booze, drugs or loud music, instead just inviting everyone he knows to come by and help him finish his many, many pumpkin pies.
100	* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Mitch, who reassures Heather she's making the right decision by telling her about his adventures in life after he dropped out of college -- including going to prison and joining a cult. It's implied this does, in fact, change her mind about dropping out, at least for now.

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