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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Losing Ground is a 1982 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Kathleen Collins.Sara Rogers (Seret Scott) and her husband Victor (Bill Gunn) are an upper-middle-class African-American couple in New York City, with typical indie-drama jobs: she's a professor of philosophy busy with a thesis on "ecstasy", and he's a painter. At the beginning of the film Victor hits it big as one of his works is sold to a museum for a sizeable fee. Flush with success, he rents out a house in upstate New York to use as a studio for the summer. Sara goes along, if rather grudgingly (as moving upstate takes her away from her research materials).In the small town where they are spending the summer, Victor meets a curvaceous Puerto Rican named Celia (Maritza Rivera), whom he starts painting and then has an affair with. Sara is apparently used to this, but still gets offended when Victor starts bringing Celia home. Meanwhile, one of Sara's students, a film major, recruits her to act in his movie. When Sara finds herself attracted to her costar, Duke (Duane Jones, Night of the Living Dead), a hypocritical Victor gets very jealous.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Fortune Teller: One scene has Sara, who evidently is looking for some manifestation of the mystic as part of her thesis, talk with a Romani fortune teller. When the Phony Psychic gives a rather pathetic psychic reading ("I see you with a tall dark man with a top hat, and they're taking your picture"), Sara walks off. | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Victor starts messing around with his model, followed by Sara becoming attracted to her tall, handsome co-star. Things get awkward when Sara brings Duke home for the weekend and all four start hanging out. | |
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Even the Girls Want Her: Subtly implied. A male student in Sara's class who is obviously enchanted with her asks if she has a husband and then says that he's a lucky man. Later, a woman in Sara's class (one of the only white people in the movie) gets advice on her paper. The woman then also says that Sara's husband must be a lucky man, leaving Sara to wonder why everyone is so interested in her husband. | |
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