1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trainwreck_6.jpg]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Tagline}} We all know one]].]] |
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4 | -> '''Gordon:''' Girls, your mother and I are getting divorced. Monogamy isn't realistic. Say it. |
5 | -> '''Young Amy and Kim:''' Monogamy isn't realistic. |
6 | -> '''Gordon:''' Again! |
7 | -> '''Young Amy and Kim:''' Monogamy isn't realistic! |
8 | -> '''Amy:''' [voice-over] ''I didn't understand that word at the time, but now, I know '''exactly''' what he was talking about.'' |
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10 | ''Trainwreck'' is a 2015 {{romantic comedy}} film produced and directed by Creator/JuddApatow, written by and starring Creator/AmySchumer. |
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12 | [[TheDanza Amy Townsend]] (Schumer) is a [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl hard-drinking party girl]] in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, writing for a men's interest magazine headed by {{alpha bitch}} editor Dianna (Creator/TildaSwinton). When she's assigned to write a profile on notable sports doctor Aaron Connors (Creator/BillHader) and falls into a romantic relationship with him, Amy's forced to choose between the noncommittal lifestyle imprinted on her as a child by her cynical father (Colin Quinn), or start settling down like her dutiful sister Kim (Creator/BrieLarson). [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Vanessa Bayer]], Creator/JohnCena, Creator/EzraMiller, and UsefulNotes/LeBronJames (AdamWesting as himself) also star. |
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14 | ''Trainwreck'' was a critical and financial success, grossing $140.8 million worldwide on a budget of $35 million, and it earned two Golden Globe nominations: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Schumer's performance. |
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17 | !! ''Trainwreck'' contains examples of the following tropes: |
18 | * AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Kim --probably in her mid-late twenties-- is the step-mother of a young preteen through marriage. [[spoiler:She eventually becomes pregnant with Tom's child]]. |
19 | * AdamWesting: [=LeBron=] James plays a heightened version of himself here. |
20 | * AlphaBitch: Dianna isn't a very nice person, even finding it ridiculous that Amy [[spoiler:is still mourning her father's death]] days after the fact. |
21 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Steven says quite a few questionable things regarding his sexuality, like making intentionally gay threats to a disgruntled filmgoer and describing Amy as if she were a man during sex. |
22 | * BestFriend: Nikki to Amy. |
23 | * ButtMonkey: How Dianna treats Nikki. |
24 | * TheCameo: Creator/DanielRadcliffe and Creator/MarisaTomei ([[AsHimself as themselves]] playing characters) in ''[[FilmWithinAFilm The Dogwalker]]'', while Creator/MatthewBroderick, Amar'e Stoudemire, Tony Romo, and Marv Albert appear as themselves. |
25 | * DeadpanSnarker: Amy, which she gets from her father. |
26 | * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Amy and Kim's mother dies before the movie happens, and she's [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead never spoken ill-of]] by either. |
27 | * DisposableIntern: Donald's job at the magazine is pretty thankless. |
28 | * DumbMuscle: Steven is a nice, jacked up guy who happens to be as dumb as a brick. |
29 | * TheFashionista: Dianna is ''very'' obsessed with her appearance. |
30 | * FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: An inversion -- older child Amy is the foolish one, while younger child Kim is the responsible one. |
31 | * GiveGeeksAChance: Aaron isn't Amy's [[HasAType usual type]] ({{dumb muscle}} airheads) but she falls for him nonetheless. |
32 | * TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Amy and Kim mostly get along, but they still often clash on certain things, like which retirement home to set up their father at. |
33 | * GoingCommando: Amy. A scene shows Amy and Nikki in the restrooom talking, while Nikki has a bright colored thong around her ankles, Amy doesn't have any underwear under her miniskirt. |
34 | * HappilyMarried: Kim and Tom, in contrast to hers and Amy's parents. |
35 | * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Amy, as you could probably tell from the above image. |
36 | * HasAType: Before Aaron comes along, all of Amy's dates are {{dumb muscle}} airheads. |
37 | * HopelessSuitor: Steven is into Amy more than she's into him, which is ultimately what ends their relationship. |
38 | * TheILoveYouStigma: Amy may as well be ''actually phobic'' to the word "love." |
39 | * InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Alistair, and to a lesser extent, Tom. |
40 | * LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Kim and Amy, respectively. |
41 | * MissingMom: Amy and Kim's mother is [[TheGhost never seen]]. |
42 | * NiceGuy: Aaron and Steven are both perfectly decent guys. |
43 | * OldFashionedRowboatDate: Played with; one of Amy and Aaron's dates involves remote-controlled miniature speedboating. |
44 | * PosthumousCharacter: Amy and Kim's mother has already been long-dead by the start of this movie. |
45 | * RedOniBlueOni: Amy and Kim, respectively. |
46 | * RomComJob: Amy writes for a men's interest magazine, and Aaron is a sports doctor. |
47 | * RomanticComedy: ''Trainwreck'' follows all the beats of one, but with subverted tropes and ''lots'' of raunchy humor. |
48 | * TroubledSympatheticBigot: Gordon is politically incorrect as they come, but he's an ailing older man who loves his daughters. |
49 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: All things considered, Amy is kind of an asshole, and she comes to realize this toward the end. |
50 | * WaxingLyrical: Lebron starts quoting "Gold Digger" in a DeadpanSnarker voice when Aaron talks about Amy. It takes him a minute to catch on. |
51 | -->'''Aaron:''' You're quoting Kanye?! |
52 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Amy is shocked to learn that, mid-sexual encounter, Donald is ''sixteen'']]. |
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