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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A 2006 romantic comedy starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey, known if for any reason for a subplot with Zooey Deschanel and Justin Bartha widely agreed to be far more interesting than the main plot.At 35, Tripp (McConaughey) has an interesting job, a hip car, a passion for sailing, and a great house - trouble is, he lives with his parents. They want him out, so they hire Paula (Parker), an "interventionist" who specializes in a phenomenon she calls "failure to launch", who pretends to date her clients' adult children to bolster their confidence and social skills (or maybe shame them) to get them to leave home. She has a simple formula: stage a quirky chance encounter, get him to ask her out, involve him in a trauma, meet his friends and get their nod, delay sex, have him teach her something, then launch him. It's worked up to now, but this gets complicated when Tripp thinks she's getting too serious and one of his pals is attracted to Paula's deadpan, semi-alcoholic roommate Kit (Deschanel), who's plagued by a mockingbird. Too many secrets may scrub the launch, and what if Paula really likes him? Who can intervene then?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Broken Aesop: The film seems to take a negative slant on adults who still live with their parents, to the point that Tripp is portrayed as an Enemy to All Living Things because he's "out of harmony with nature and nature knows it." Every other man in the situation is exempt because there's some reason that makes it so they're not living with their parents. Even then Tripp is not portrayed as one of the more negative types of Basement-Dweller; he's not staying at home because he's lazy, immature and/or cowardly - yet he's the only one getting attacked by animals for it. | |
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Basement-Dweller: Ace is presented this way at first, though as Kit gets to know him she finds out that he's actually living in an extension of his family's house and paying his mother rent while working on an internet startup. Paula's normal clientele seem to be more straightforward examples however. | |
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