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Dinner In America

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"Dinner in America" is a 2020 American romantic dark comedy film written, directed, and edited by Adam Carter Rehmeier.Kyle Gallner stars as Simon, an aggressive punk on a warpath for quick cash. A brush with the law leads him to hide out with Patty (Emily Skeggs), a young and sheltered outcast. The pair forge an unlikely duo as they realize that they have more in common than either expected."Dinner in America" premiered at the Sundance Film festival in January of 2020, but due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, theatrical release was delayed until May of 2022, with a video-on-demand release in June of that year.
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Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer spoils the fact that Simon is the lead singer of the band that Patty is obsessed with, which only gets revealed as a twist halfway through the film.
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Title Drop: "Dinner in America" is one of PSYOP's singles. Patty says that she had to make a copy because her original got eaten. In the end, Simon complains of the lengths he had to go to to get a good dinner in America.
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Revenge Is Sweet
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Revenge Is Sweet: Simon helps Patty shoot the moon with this, as far as the two jocks are concerned, given that they knock them out, strip them naked, and then set their precious tracksuits on fire, take a picture of them naked together with a dead cat to use as blackmail if they ever come after either of them again, before letting them be woken up by their own teammates finding them.
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Reveal Shot
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Reveal Shot: After a whole conversation with her parents, who have been accidentally stoned, Patty asks, "Why aren't you wearing pants?" A change in camera angles reveals that, in fact, they've been without pants the whole time.
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Surprisingly Happy Ending: Although Simon goes to jail when his band betrays him, he ends up thriving on the inside, constantly writing new songs and keeping himself in shape. His relationship with Patty remains rock solid, with them exchanging letters and her visiting when she can. Patty herself has grown self-confident and is implied to be on her way to becoming a punk singer.
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She Cleans Up Nicely
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She Cleans Up Nicely: Simon is rudely frank when he tells Patty that she might be attractive if she ditched her glasses, ponytail, and work smock. He has her model for him and decides that he's interested. Patty keeps wearing her glasses but otherwise follows his advice.
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Hidden Depths: The first indication we get that there's more to Simon than just an irreverent hooligan is when Patty recalls that he took the same art appreciation class as her. Later, he's able to come up with a Seamless Spontaneous Lie using specific knowledge of church terms and African cuisine. Patty is a sheltered, naive and seemingly dim-witted young woman, but Simon is surprised that she's such a good kisser and is shocked by her talent for lyrics and vocals.
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Auteur License
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Auteur License: The film was written, directed and edited by Adam Carter Rehmeier.
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Lethal Chef: Patty's mom is implied to be a bad cook. Nobody in the family is enthusiastic about her salad in spite of her attempts to sell it, and her husband complains that it's spicy, which confuses her. When Simon compliments her chicken cordon bleu to ingratiate himself, the family is nonplussed, and Kevin asserts it was bought premade. Later, Simon says the family's coffee is terrible, and Patty admits that it's instant.
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Character Development
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Character Development: In the final scene, Patty stands up to two bullies herself and has changed her look to something more mature.
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Blatant Lies: Simon pretends to be a missionary just back in from Tanzania while dressed like a punk and swearing up a storm at the dinner table. Patty's parents buy it completely.
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Simon is a rare male version. He's an irreverent punk who gets Patty to come out of her shell.
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"Just Joking" Justification: Simon keeps insulting Patty only to quickly say, "I'm fucking with you!"
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
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Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Simon's a true-blue punk rocker who refuses to sell out, which puts him at odds with two of his more practical bandmates.
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Smoking Is Cool
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Smoking Is Cool: Simon the badass punker is often seen with a cigarette hanging from his lips. In the end, Patty also strikes a cool pose with a cigarette, though she ruins it by coughing.
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Drink-Based Characterization: Patty is often seen drinking from juice boxes due to being a female Manchild.
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Gilligan Cut: The two jocks who bully Patty confront her on the bus, only for Simon to intervene, and attempt to defend her. They challenge him, and he instantly pulls the cord. Smash cut to him getting his ass kicked.
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The Reveal: Midway through the film, it's revealed that Simon isn't just some unhinged criminal. He's the lead singer of a punk rock band trying to finance the band.
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The Stoner: Simon introduces Patty's adopted brother Kevin to smoking weed. The next time we see him, Kevin is stoned to the eyeballs and shows no signs of stopping (especially since he found a girlfriend who also loves getting high).
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Mugging the Monster: Subverted. Simon is established to be a hard-as-nails punk and criminal who easily manhandles Kevin when attacked. So when those two track-running bullies pick a fight with him for defending Patty, we know what's about to go down. Except instead, Simon gets his ass kicked and told he sucks at fighting.
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Politically Incorrect Villain: The two jocks who bully Patty, and later Simon love using the R-slur, and the F-slur. Also at the beginning the man whose house Simon eats at drops an N-word, which makes it a lot easier to forgive Simon for nearly sleeping with his wife and setting his house on fire.
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Arc Words: "You need to take it down a notch!" Said by various characters in situations ranging from awkward to downright violent.
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Actually, I Am Him: Patty is completely unaware that the on-the-lam punk she let into her home is her "music boyfriend." Unlike a lot of examples of this trope, Simon is immediately alarmed when he figures out how attracted to his stage persona she is.
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The Silent Bob
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The Silent Bob: PSYOPS's drummer never speaks a word through the whole film, though he casts his vote for Simon during a band meeting and commiserates with him over refusing to sell out. He's on quaaludes.
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: Simon is aggressive, impulsive and angry. Patty is passive and withdrawn. By the end, they've helped each other come a bit closer to the center, with Simon learning to mellow out a bit and Patty being more assertive.
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Jerk Jock: Patty is often sexually harassed by two track runners who call her slurs.
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Cute Clumsy Girl: Patty is terrible at basketball and trips on her stairs. One telling note that Simon has started to care for her is when she smacks herself on his drum set, nearly knocking it over, and he winces and asks if she's alright rather than get mad about his drums.
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Jabba Table Manners: Simon is always shown hunched over his plate with his elbows on the table. He shovels food into his mouth with his fork and licks his fingers while eating.
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Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Nauseous from the medication given to him in a drug trial, Simon is served a dubious dinner and instantly vomits onto his tray.
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Foreshadowing: You wouldn't expect that a punk like Simon would have taken an art appreciation course in college, but then we find out that he's a musician from a rich family.
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Naked People Are Funny: After getting accidentally stoned, Patty's parents are revealed to be sitting on their sofa with no pants on, just like Kevin.
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Meet Cute: Simon meets Patty when she covers for him in his escape from law enforcement.
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Tap on the Head: Simon knocks the tracksuit bullies unconscious with a blow to the head. They wake up a few minutes later none the worse for wear.
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Color Motif: Red, white and blue. This is dinner in America, after all. The credits are all in red, white and blue. There are a number of American flags displayed throughout the film, and Patty wears an outfit with an American flag theme for a portion of the film. The net of her basketball hoop is red, white, and blue.
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Seamless Spontaneous Lie: Simon spontaneously decides to start pretending to be a Christian missionary midway through his dinner at Patty's house and completely convinces her parents to the point that they agree to let him stay in their own son's bedroom.
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Toilet Humor: While taking a break in the alley behind the pet shop, Patty is forced to watch a homeless man take a giant dump on the sidewalk. Simon excuses himself to the bathroom, sneaks out of Patty's house, and stays out for hours. When he gets back, he finds that Patty has stacked a little pyramid of toilet paper for him outside the door, apparently guessing that he's having bowel issues.
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Decoy Protagonist: The film seems to be setting up some sort of weird romance between Simon and Beth, who meet while drugged up in a trial research program. But then Simon runs away, and Beth is never seen again. He meets the female lead a few scenes later.
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Manchild: Patty is a rare female example. She's 20 years old but dresses and behaves like am adolescent, even drinking from juice boxes with lunch. She lives under the thumb of her parents and asks their permission to go on activities. In the final scene, she's wearing some makeup and looks more mature, showing her character development.
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Secretly Wealthy: Simon is revealed to come from a rich family. He has apparently claimed the entire basement as his room, which is enormous and filled with musical equipment.
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Intoxication Ensues: Patty's parents get unexpectedly stoned. Her father just stares vacantly at the TV and responds to every question with, "Oh... yeah!" A Reveal Shot reveals that they're not wearing any pants.
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Drives Like Crazy: Simon, as he shows during the pair's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. "Buckle up! I drive fucking nuts!"
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Gross-Up Close-Up: In the first scene, Beth is trying to be seductive while drugged to her eyeballs. The camera zooms in as she licks her lips suggestively, unaware that she's drooling.
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Brick Joke: At dinner with Patty's parents, Simon lies that his own parents are missionaries building houses in Tanzania. Much later, when Simon's mom stumbles onto them recording a song in her basement, Patty asks, "How was Tanzania?"
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