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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a 2007 comedy starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James. Two New York City Firefighters named Chuck (Sandler) and Larry (James) do a routine sweep of a building. Falling debris showers over Chuck, but Larry uses his body to shield him. As Chuck is saved, he tells Larry that he'll repay him with any favor.After the accident, Larry, a recent widower, worries about his death and the impact it could have on his two kids. However, he discovers that his life insurance policy won't allow him to change his beneficiary from his deceased wife to his children due to him not experiencing a major life event. As he neglected to fill out the paperwork after his wife's death, he's left with marriage. Realizing New York legally recognizes domestic partnerships, he pleads for Chuck to have a domestic partnership with him. Realizing that he owes him one, he agrees.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })However, things get complicated when they're repeatedly investigated for potential fraud and forced to keep acting gay in public to maintain the ruse - particularly difficult for Chuck due to his lady killer tendencies and especially his growing attraction to a lawyer, Alex, who supported them. The two also begin to learn that living openly as gay men creates further complications as the two previously homophobic men are now subjected to the same persecution legitimately gay people are. | |
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Faux Yay | |
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Faux Yay: The premise of the film. | |
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Reality Ensues | |
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Reality Ensues: After the truth of Chuck and Larry's relationship (or lack thereof) is revealed in the court, their fellow firefighters pull the I Am Spartacus card in a show of solidarity... and are all promptly arrested and thrown in jail for being accessories to Chuck and Larry's act of fraud. Fortunately for them, the state subsequently agrees not to press any charges as part of the plea bargain that sees the case resolved. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Inevitable considering Chuck and Larry did pretend to be a couple. | |
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Camp Straight | |
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Implied with Larry's effeminate son. Or he could be just Camp Straight. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: Duncan (Ving Rhames), one of the firefighters. He turns out to be gay too. And the only reason he's "scary" is because he had to hide his sexuality, and would really become scary if he didn't come out soon. | |
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Hello, Attorney! | |
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Hello, Attorney!: Alex is the lawyer helping out Larry and Chuck, and also the obligatory love interest for Chuck. In addition to being, you know, Jessica Biel, the movie makes sure to film her in as much Male Gaze as possible and depict her as doing things like taking her clothes off in front of clients. | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Chuck points out the reason he and Larry are in this mess and comitting fraud is because "Everything with Paula's name on it gets filed in the drawer under 'too painful to deal with.'” | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: There was an entire scene that was just the guys' coworkers being scared to shower because Chuck and Larry might rape them, with them acting as if they actually might. | |
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No Bisexuals | |
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No Bisexuals: The entire climax is of Chuck getting in trouble because he was "caught" being in prior relationships with women. The idea of bisexuality was never even implied as a possibility. In fact, the entire movie would be over if they simply claimed to be bisexuals in an open relationship. Plus it's extremely common for men that come out in later in life to have multiple previous opposite sex relationships, so Chuck having been revealed as having relationships in the past is completely irrelevant. | |
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Citizenship Marriage | |
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Citizenship Marriage: The insurance marriage variant. | |
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FanService | |
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Fanservice: Jessica Biel in a couple scenes. Bra and panties in one, with a gratuitous shot of her walking away after getting felt up by Sandler. Also as Catwoman at a costume party. Also "Dr. Honey" when she's a lingerie. And the cute Asian girls Chuck has over at his pad, including Tila Tequila | |
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Queer People Are Funny | |
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Queer People Are Funny: The whole point of the movie. | |
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Camp Gay | |
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Camp Gay: Pretty much anyone in the movie that is actually gay is this. Duncan doesn't start out this way, but he switches to this as soon as he comes out of the closet. One of the chief criticisms of the film was its flagrant stereotyping of the gay community despite purporting to be a message of tolerance. Implied with Larry's effeminate son. Or he could be just Camp Straight. | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: Twice in the film, the duo are expected to kiss. The first time, they flip out and Chuck hits Larry (they play this off as being kinky.) The second time, they are expected to kiss in court to prove their love before they're interrupted by the Captain, who exposes the entire charade. | |
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Artistic License – Law | |
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Artistic License – Law: The entire premise of the film. Being romantically involved is not a prerequisite for two people being in a domestic partnership. If anything, the opposite is true: the agreement only recognizes that two unmarried people live together, and it's (in theory) designed for people who aren't romantic partners. The arrangement just used to be common among LGBT couples because same-sex marriage was illegal in most of the United States until 2015, so domestic partnerships were often the closest thing to marriage that they could get. The movie has no apparent idea how life insurance works at all. The fake marriage is completely unnecessary as any life insurance policy would have named Larry's children as beneficiaries regardless of whether his wife was alive, life insurance beneficiaries can of course be changed at any time, and really if all Larry wanted to do was trigger a life event to change his insurance, he simply had to get married, trigger the life event to change the policy, then get divorced. It's probably a good thing we're never told why Jessica Biel knows two guys who went to jail for pretending to be gay to get insurance, because that's not a crime. At all. Insurance fraud would have only been committed if Chuck and Larry actually lied about getting the partnership or getting married, which they follow all the legal requirements to do in the film. | |
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy | |
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Eric and Tori (Larry's kids). | |
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Get Back in the Closet | |
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Get Back in the Closet: The reason why they decided to cut the kiss between Chuck and Larry. | |
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Mistaken from Behind | |
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Mistaken from Behind: Adam Sandler's character sees a hot blonde dressed as a Playboy bunny but when he calls out she turns out to be David Spade. | |
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Fictional Video Game | |
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Fictional Video Game: Chuck owns a "Balica"note actually a modified Galaga arcade game. | |
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Depraved Homosexual | |
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Depraved Homosexual: Subverted - the movie doesn't portray one, but during the shower scene, Chuck and Larry are treated as though they are. | |
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Ms. Fanservice | |
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Ms. Fanservice: Alex played by Jessica Biel. The film and trailer makes sure to show off her breast, legs and ass. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Chuck hates the word faggot and he punches a religiously homophobic group member. | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
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invoked Dude, Not Funny!: At one point Chuck and Larry sleep on Larry's former wife's bed which he hasn't done since she died. Once under the covers, Chuck decides to joke around by imitating his dead wife and claiming he "betrayed" her. Larry, unsurprisingly, isn't amused. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: Alex McDonough gets this. It's one of the reasons why Chuck found it hard to keep up the charade. | |
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But Not Too Gay | |
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But Not Too Gay: Despite that this movie is completely centered upon the issues of homosexuals and gay marriage, the one line they could not cross was having Chuck and Larry actually kiss. They wanted to do this, but the MPAA threatened to give the movie an R-rating if they did (despite heterosexual kisses not even being considered to be PG-13), so they had to pass on that idea in the interests of marketability. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Clinton Fitzer. Granted he was only doing his job investigating a possible fraud in Chuck and Larry's marriage, but does it justify being an unsympathetic asshole to them? | |
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Intimate Marks | |
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Intimate Marks: The movie has a closeted homosexual who comes out to one of the protagonists. Later, when all the firefighters are in the shower, all the firefighters are scared of the 2 main characters. The closeted homosexual walks in and drops his soap. He bends over to reveal that "BAD ASS" is tattooed on his butt cheeks. | |
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