Say Yes is a 2018 film written and directed by Stewart Wade.
It tells the story of a dying woman Lily (Leah McKendrick) who tries to hook up her husband Beau (Patrick Zeller) with her bisexual twin brother Caden (Matt Pascua).
Tropes:
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: To an extent. Leah Mc Kendrick looks gaunt and pale during her final moments, but is still quite lovely for a woman dying after a brutal bout with cancer.
- Bisexual Love Triangle: The film's central conceit.
- Comforting the Widow: Caden and Beau make out the moment Lily's body is taken away. While they briefly stop themselves to call her loved ones, they have sex for the first time mere hours after Lily's death.
- Competing with a Corpse
- Death of the Hypotenuse: Lily engineers this trope.
- Ethical Slut: Lily played the role before her marriage, but tells Beau after Their First Time "I'm not as much of a slut as I seem. I only sleep with guys who have potential." Caden is implied to have been like this before Lily's diagnosis.
- Everyone Can See It: It's abundantly clear to Lily that Beau and Caden are attracted to each other. Near the end of the film, Caden's ex girlfriend Candace can also tell that he's in love with someone.
- Everyone Is Bi: Lily's contention. All three main characters turn out to be some degree of bisexual, having had lovingly romantic and passionate sexual relationships with both men and women.
- Get a Room!!: Lily jokingly suggests this to Beau and Caden while the pair wrestle, beginning to spark her ides that the pair should become a couple after her death.
- Happy-Ending Massage: Joked about when Caden gives Beau a back rub.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Once Lily has accepted her impending death, she shifts focus on ensuring the happiness of the two people she loves most, her twin and her husband.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Caden and Beau begin their sexual encounter on the dining room table.
- Mr. Fanservice: Both Beau and Caden strip down in shower and bath scenes as well as their sex scene.
- Not Staying for Breakfast: After consummating things with Caden, Beau returns to his bedroom rather than staying the night in Caden's room. Somewhat averted, as they live in the same house, but things are notably colder after sex.
- Oh, Crap!: When Beau and Caden awaken cuddling... with "morning wood."
- Parents Walk In at the Worst Time: Caden and Lily's mother walks in on Beau frustratedly exclaiming that he doesn't want to be known as "the guy who's fucking his brother-in-law."
- Raging Stiffie: Beau and Caden both wake up with erections when they accidentally spend the night cuddling. Happens to Beau again on two subsequent occasions: when Caden (on Lily's request, in hopes they'll hook up) gives Beau a back rub while he takes a bath, and when Beau curiously watches gay porn.
- Replacement Goldfish: Averted, somewhat. Beau becomes romantically involved with the twin brother of his dead wife, but the relationship is treated as its own thing, borne of genuine feelings but not wholly divorced from either's love of Lily.
- Second Love: Caden for Beau.
- Seduction-Proof Marriage: Beau only has eyes for Lily, to the point where when she encourages him to sleep with someone else he is horrified.
- Sibling Triangle: Caden is attracted to brother-in-law Beau, encouraged by his dying sister Lily.
- Single-Target Sexuality: In a conversation about bisexuality and their growing attraction, Caden said that, while he'd previously defined himself as either bi or pan, he'd now say he's more "Beau-sexual."
- Their First Time: We see Beau post-coital with Lily after their first sexual encounter, portrayed incredibly sweet and romantic. Beau and Caden's first time together is shown more graphically, cutting to a far more awkward post-coital bed chat.
- The Mourning After: Averted within minutes, but then played straight.
