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Palm Springs
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Palm Springs is a 2020 Scifi Rom Com, starring Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, and J. K. Simmons, and the latest in a long line of projects by Samberg's comedy troupe The Lonely Island.While attending the Palm Springs destination wedding of her sister, Sarah (Milioti) encounters the carefree Nyles (Samberg), who has been stuck in a time-loop of the day of the wedding for years. Hilarity Ensues when Sarah accidentally becomes caught in the loop as well, and the two face the prospect of being trapped together for the foreseeable future.Originally premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, it was jointly purchased by Neon and Hulu in a record-breaking deal note The purchase price was set at one cent more than the current record holder to intentionally generate headlines without offering significantly more money. It received a release in drive-in theaters in the US on July 10th, 2020, after the COVID-19 Pandemic forced the cancellation of a planned wide theatrical release. It was also released digitally on Hulu on the same date.There are unmarked spoilers below. If you wish to remain completely unspoiled and only know about the basic Time Loop premise of the film, then you should not read further. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: We are introduced to Sarah shown drinking heavily the night of the wedding, balking at having to make a toast to her sister's happiness, and telling Nyles how much she resents being the black sheep of the family living in Tala's shadow. It's a testament to Sarah's character development that her last night in the time loop has her giving a truly heartfelt speech about what a great person Tala is and sincerely wishing her nothing but happiness in the future. | |
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Creator Cameo | |
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Creator Cameo: Dr. Clifford V. Johnson, a frequent science consultant for movie franchises like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, has a cameo consulting with Sarah about her quantum mechanics hypothesis via video chat. One of his recommendations as a science consultant for this movie was that when Sarah was seeking the advice of scientists, they should show diversity in the science field and not just the cliche of "old white men in lab coats". This led to the unexpected invitation for him, an African-American scientist, to appear as one of her consultants as himself. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The fact it's a "Groundhog Day" Loop story and that Nyles is trapped in it already for decades or that there is a resentful guy trying to kill him for getting him stuck, too, are all intended to be a big twist. Too bad the entire marketing was based on This is a time loop comedy! gimmick, making the set-up moot. | |
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Maurice Chevalier Accent | |
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Maurice Chevalier Accent: Sarah bizarrely adopts one when she reveals herself as the supervillain who planted a bomb in the wedding cake. | |
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Your Mom | |
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Your Mom: This exchange before Sarah and Nyles blow themselves up at the end: | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: In the film, both Nana and Jerry use the Arabic word "Shukran" meaning "Thank you" without any explanation. The film reveals that both characters have the last name of "Schlieffen" and an early draft of the screenplay explains that Jerry is a refugee orphan whom Papa and Nana Schlieffen adopted from Sudan, explaining the appearance of the foreign word. | |
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Necktie Headband | |
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Necktie Headband: Roy wears his necktie around his head after doing drugs with Nyles. | |
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The Place | |
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The Place: Palm Springs, California. The creative seed for this film was the writer thinking of all the weddings he'd attended in Palm Springs (one of the most popular wedding destinations for Southern Californians) and wanting to do a movie set over a Palm Springs wedding weekend, with the "Groundhog Day" Loop concept only coming later. | |
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Ambiguous Situation | |
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Ambiguous Situation: Nana's role in the story has some mysterious aspects to it. When Nana compliments Sarah and Nyles on their wedding speeches on different nights in the loop, her wording implies she may be aware of and also be caught in the time loop. | |
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The Tooth Hurts | |
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The Tooth Hurts: Tala slips and falls running over to the pool when Sarah is yelling at Nyles, breaking three of her front teeth. Her dad finds a dentist to glue them before the wedding (of course, this all resets the next loop). | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Nyles recognizing Sarah by the "Orchid Explosion" scent of the hair product she's wearing. Spuds' pet goat, which appears in the very first shot of the movie, plays a major role in the ending. | |
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In Medias Res | |
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In Medias Res: Zig-Zagged Trope. While we do get to see how Sarah gets caught in the time loop and her first experience of it, the initial 14 minutes of the story follows Nyles as the viewpoint character who has already been in it for years. We get little hints about his acclimated life in the time loop but never learn how he got caught in the first place. | |
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The Antichrist | |
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The Antichrist: Played for laughs. Nyles briefly trolls Sarah that this is his true identity when he appears to summon the earthquake to open up the cave. It turns out that he simply knows what time the earthquake hits each day and milks it for full dramatic effect. | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Upon repeated viewing, it becomes obvious that Nyles telling Sarah he never slept with her in any of the previous loops is a lie as you can see how many of his interactions with her are rehearsed and choreographed, right down to reacting on cue to Funny Background Events such as working "leg up" into his conversation as Misty and Trevor carry on behind him. | |
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Impersonating an Officer | |
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Impersonating an Officer: Roy impersonates a state trooper and ambushes Nyles when Sarah gets pulled over for speeding. | |
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The Straight and Arrow Path | |
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The Straight and Arrow Path: Roy is apparently a bow hunter given that he prefers to hunt down Nyles with a bow and arrow most of the time. He even gives Nyles a friendly arrow through the heart for old times' sake after their last conversation. Played for Laughs when Nyles and Sarah play out the "There's a bomb in the wedding cake!" scenario — Nyles' expert means of defusing the bomb involves attaching it to a crossbow bolt and shooting it into the air so it explodes harmlessly overhead. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Nyles' beverage of choice is a fictional brand of beer that comes in brightly colored red cans. A Freeze-Frame Bonus indicates that it's called "Akupara" beer (there's also a neon advertisement for it in the bar), which is the name of the World-Tortoise from Hindu mythology and a symbol of eternity. | |
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You Didn't Ask | |
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You Didn't Ask: At the end of the movie, Sarah learns that Nyles has a dog named Fred, and is shocked that he never mentioned this despite all the time they spent together. Nyles's response is that it never came up. | |
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Convenient Eclipse | |
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Convenient Eclipse: More like Convenient Earthquake. Nyles trolls Sarah pretending to be the Anti-Christ when he makes it look like he can summon an earthquake when all he did was to time his speech to when the earthquake would hit naturally. | |
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Stuff Blowing Up | |
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Stuff Blowing Up: This movie shamelessly has fun with explosions such as Nyles and Sarah stealing a plane only to have it crash and explode or them planting a bomb in the wedding cake that Nyles propels into the air to harmlessly explode, etc. Explosives end up playing a quite serious role in Sarah's plan to finally escape the time loop. | |
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Pedal-to-the-Metal Shot | |
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Pedal-to-the-Metal Shot: There is a close-up of Sarah hitting the gas pedal of her Volkswagen when she decides to commit suicide by oncoming truck. | |
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The Punishment Is the Crime | |
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The Punishment Is the Crime: Played with. Sarah slept with her sister's fiance the night before the wedding. From what we learn of her, if time had just kept flowing this would have been another one of her poor life choices. However, being caught in the loop forces her to wake up every morning in Abe's bed and suffer her guilt over and over again. | |
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The Fog of Ages | |
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The Fog of Ages: Nyles has no idea how long he has been stuck in the time loop. He claims to not even remember what he did for a living yet immediately after he escapes, he remembers he has a dog that has been staying with his neighbor the whole time. So it's possible he was just using poor memory as an excuse to avoid talking about his past. | |
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Double Meaning | |
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Double Meaning: Sarah gives a touching, poignant dedication to Tala, then points to her new husband and says "Don't fuck this up". Abe and Tala both chuckle, but Sarah gives him a steely glare and Abe's demeanor becomes deadly serious. Thus she's able to play it off as a standard, playful warning in public, but both Sarah and Abe know that she's referring to the fact that they slept together, and she can ruin him if he doesn't change his ways. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: Nyles makes references to at least one incident where his escape was after dying painfully and slowly in a hospital. | |
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Took a Level in Kindness | |
| Palm Springs / int_3dcc914f | comment |
Took a Level in Kindness: Although personal growth isn't the way to escape the loop, Sarah, Nyles and Roy end up better people because it's the only way they can live with themselves. | |
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Leg Focus | |
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Leg Focus: Nyles gets aroused in the morning when his girlfriend oils her sexy legs in front of him. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: It seems like Sarah's plan worked and she and Nyles are free from the time loop. It's strongly implied that Sarah gave Roy enough information that he could also escape if he chooses. However, the time loop cave still exists and there are dinosaurs seen in the background just before the credits roll making it unclear as to what timeline/reality Sarah and Nyles escaped into. | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: Played for dark humor with a short montage of Roy torturing Nyles in his garage using various methods like his car battery, water and a lash. | |
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Annoying Arrows | |
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Annoying Arrows: When Nyles gets the arrow shot in his back, he curses and pulls it out without it being much more than an annoyance. | |
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Eye Open | |
| Palm Springs / int_46cd696 | comment |
Eye Open: Each new loop starts with a close-up of either Sarah or Nyles' eye opening as they awake in their bed. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Randy. He is twice shot down by Sarah during the wedding reception when he invites her to dance. He is a Nervous Wreck and freaks out several times in the story. During one loop, Sarah even tricks him into walking in on Trevor and Misty while blindfolded and naked from the waist down. | |
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The Stinger | |
| Palm Springs / int_48081842 | comment |
The Stinger: Used after the credits roll to show that Roy did get the message that Sarah left for him and confirms that both Sarah and Nyles got out of the loop. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Nyles tells Sarah that they're stuck in "one of those infinite time-loop things you may have heard about" to acknowledge that it's a well-worn trope. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: As is traditional for a "Groundhog Day" Loop plot there's a fair amount of this, including Nyles and Sarah staging a terrorist attack at the wedding and apparently greatly enjoying how genuinely freaked out the guests are despite the ridiculousness of it all. That said, Nyles is pretty insistent on never actually hurting anyone during the loops — and alludes darkly to having learned from experience that even if it has no permanent consequences the memory of doing so is reason enough to avoid it. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: "We fucked a thousand times." | |
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Wham Shot | |
| Palm Springs / int_4e7f703c | comment |
Wham Shot: The reveal that Sarah wakes up on every reset in bed after having slept with Abe, her sister's fiance, the night before their wedding. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: Trevor the wedding celebrant is an Australian, and one of his major lines in the film is yelling "Oi open up ya cunts!" after Nyles steals his bag of cocaine. | |
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Second-Act Breakup | |
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Second-Act Breakup: Sarah breaks up with Nyles halfway through the movie when he reveals to her that he lied about not having slept with her. They make up soon after. | |
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Going Fur a Swim | |
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Going Fur a Swim: Sarah's signature outfit during most of the time loop is a garish faux-fur leopard jacket over a one-piece bathing suit. | |
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Implacable Man | |
| Palm Springs / int_659ef759 | comment |
Implacable Man: Subverted. Nyles views Roy as this, and never tries to fight him whenever Roy shows up. Sarah gets tired of this situation, realizes that Roy is just a Badass Normal, and hits him with a police car. | |
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Race for Your Love | |
| Palm Springs / int_66805a18 | comment |
Race for Your Love: Nyles does it at the end when he tries to reach Sarah and prevent her from entering the cave with explosives strapped to her body. | |
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Meaningful Echo | |
| Palm Springs / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Nyles is involved in a Noodle Incident that makes him realize that "nothing is worse than slowly dying in the ICU" which he hated because the pain was real and remains in his memory. When Roy explains that his Heel Realization came from when the nurses in the hospital didn't want him to fall into a coma and kept him awake and in pain, Nyles repeats the line. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: It doesn't take long for Sarah to turn to this, only to realize that she will still continue waking up regardless. Nyles has tried it many, many times in the past without success and actively encourages her to skip this phase. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
| Palm Springs / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: The movie ends with Nyles and Sarah getting caught by the family who actually live in Nyles' "safe house", showing us that even though they're back in the real world these two good-natured delinquents aren't going to live a life that's anything close to ordinary. | |
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Worst Wedding Ever | |
| Palm Springs / int_6f5c80fc | comment |
Worst Wedding Ever: Some loops end the wedding in a disaster like when the bride chips her front teeth after a fall. | |
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1.0 | |
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Luke, You Are My Father | |
| Palm Springs / int_70638525 | comment |
Luke, You Are My Father: Nyles pretends he's the long-lost son of an older guy he knows named Spuds, after learning about how Spuds had lost his virginity years ago to a woman, claiming he's the result. It's all just to get a free ride from Spuds to catch Sarah before she enters the cave. | |
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Palm Springs / int_70638525 | |
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Dressed to Plunder | |
| Palm Springs / int_74b6e6d0 | comment |
Dressed to Plunder: One of Nyles and Sarah's pranks is for her to disguise as a pirate with an eye patch and a hook hand. | |
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1.0 | |
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Palm Springs / int_74b6e6d0 | |
| Palm Springs / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
| Palm Springs / int_762b9223 | comment |
Played for Laughs when Nyles and Sarah play out the "There's a bomb in the wedding cake!" scenario — Nyles' expert means of defusing the bomb involves attaching it to a crossbow bolt and shooting it into the air so it explodes harmlessly overhead. | |
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Palm Springs / int_762b9223 | |
| Palm Springs / int_82ab88c5 | type |
Percussive Pickpocket | |
| Palm Springs / int_82ab88c5 | comment |
Percussive Pickpocket: Nyles manages to get the truck keys from the barkeeper by inciting a physical altercation after showing him the middle finger. | |
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Palm Springs / int_82ab88c5 | |
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Signature Scent | |
| Palm Springs / int_83095fe8 | comment |
Signature Scent: Sarah is identified by the "Orchid Explosion" hair mist she wears at the wedding. | |
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Palm Springs / int_83095fe8 | |
| Palm Springs / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| Palm Springs / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: Roy gets a big one after Sarah puts him in the hospital following his most recent attack on Nyles. | |
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Palm Springs / int_9591377d | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
| Palm Springs / int_97926168 | comment |
Rewatch Bonus: Upon repeated viewing, it becomes obvious that Nyles telling Sarah he never slept with her in any of the previous loops is a lie as you can see how many of his interactions with her are rehearsed and choreographed, right down to reacting on cue to Funny Background Events such as working "leg up" into his conversation as Misty and Trevor carry on behind him. It's pretty obvious that Daisy the bartender is into Nyles and disappointed that she doesn't catch his attention, rather than just being annoyed at his behaviour at the wedding. A lot of Nyles's actions at the beginning, such as his boredom with easily obtainable sex with Misty and his perfectly executed moves on the dance floor, make more sense once you know about the time loop. | |
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Montage | |
| Palm Springs / int_9b1da792 | comment |
Montage: Used a lot in this film, in order to show the passage of numerous repeated days despite the movie itself only clocking in at 90 minutes. | |
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Palm Springs / int_9b1da792 | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| Palm Springs / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: There are many narrative breadcrumbs that hint at Sarah's Wham Shot reveal. Doubles as Rewatch Bonus as some of the hints don't stand out as hints until you've learned about Sarah's personality and see how she acts which is a common element of time loop stories. Following Sarah's awakening on her very first loop, she immediately looks upset because she realizes whose room she's in. Then she bolts from the room when she hears the shower start. The scene cuts to the living room with a close-up focus on a picture of Abe and Tala. While in the living room, Howard comes up to Sarah saying he checked her room at six and didn't find her there. Which is because she spent the night in Abe's room after having sex with him. At the burrito stand after Nyles recounts his sexual escapades while in the loop, he asks Sarah about her sex life. Her demeanor chills considerably and she goes on a serious rant about the wedding being bullshit. Understandable as her last sexual encounter was with Abe and this leads to her belief that a karmic cleansing will allow her to exit the loop. At Spud's firing range, when Sarah learns that the target they're shooting at is a picture of the man who stole Spud's wife, she promptly blows the entire head off. During the "Barracuda" montage where Sarah starts enjoying the fun she's having each day with Nyles, one loop begins with her waking in bed smiling then she notices the bathroom door and her face falls into a look of regret. | |
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Palm Springs / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| Palm Springs / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
| Palm Springs / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: It's heavily implied that one of the reasons Sarah reacts so poorly to being in the time loop, and so quickly becomes Driven to Suicide, is because each morning she's forced to wake up facing her biggest mistake and the worst thing she's ever done: sleeping with her sister's fiance the night before their wedding. | |
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Palm Springs / int_a1b141f4 | |
| Palm Springs / int_a1b27125 | type |
Nervous Wreck | |
| Palm Springs / int_a1b27125 | comment |
Nervous Wreck: Randy is one of these although it's mostly Played for Laughs. He's shown having FreakOuts when the earthquake occurs during the wedding ceremony or when Nyles keeps appearing uninvited in the Wilder private space at the hotel. | |
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Palm Springs / int_a1b27125 | |
| Palm Springs / int_a4c37cbe | type |
Mood Whiplash | |
| Palm Springs / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: Nyles and Sarah are about to have sex in the desert when, out of nowhere, an arrow pierces Nyles' back, and Roy begins stalking them like something out of a slasher movie. Sarah reacts with all the horror one would expect from such a shocking and horrific sight. The time loops resetting cause this to happen a few times, most notably when Abe gets a fork in the face during a fight, before it loops straight back to the wedding with Abe perfectly fine and smiling. | |
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Palm Springs / int_a4c37cbe | |
| Palm Springs / int_a5b12e14 | type |
Commitment Issues | |
| Palm Springs / int_a5b12e14 | comment |
Commitment Issues: Nyles. It's established that even before the time loop started, he was the kind of guy who's made deeply uncomfortable by weddings because he's afraid of commitment and doesn't really believe in true love (and is only with his girlfriend Misty for the sex). Being trapped in the time loop and unable to move into the future is a pretty unsubtle metaphor for this condition, and his decision to take the risk and leave the loop to be with Sarah signals his willingness to move beyond it. Sarah. It's not played up as much but it's revealed that she was in a marriage that she knew would end badly even as she was walking down the aisle, but went through with it anyway. Roy. He ends up in the time loop because he shares this sentiment from the other side of commitment and reveals that "a bad marriage is a bottomless pit of despair". | |
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Palm Springs / int_a5b12e14 | |
| Palm Springs / int_a5b971c9 | type |
The Art of Bra Removal | |
| Palm Springs / int_a5b971c9 | comment |
The Art of Bra Removal: A gender-inverted example of Sarah (and then Nyles himself) being unable to untie his swimming trunks when they try to have sex by the rocks. | |
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Palm Springs / int_a5b971c9 | |
| Palm Springs / int_aca32000 | type |
Armor-Piercing Response | |
| Palm Springs / int_aca32000 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Response: When Sarah drops a long rant about Nyles during their argument after being arrested for hitting Roy with a police car, he responds to her ending "I never would have fucked you" remark with "we fucked a thousand times." After he revealed that all it took was to bail her out of the wedding speech for them to hook up, it motivates her to start trying to figure out how to escape. | |
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Palm Springs / int_aca32000 | |
| Palm Springs / int_acf33d00 | type |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
| Palm Springs / int_acf33d00 | comment |
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: It turns out that, by randomly attacking Nyles on one of the nights he's trying to seduce Sarah, and therefore getting Sarah stuck in the loop with the two of them, Roy was the one who started the chain of events by which he and Nyles both eventually get free. | |
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| Palm Springs / int_ad3e13c5 | type |
The Loins Sleep Tonight | |
| Palm Springs / int_ad3e13c5 | comment |
The Loins Sleep Tonight: Nyles can't finish when making love to his girlfriend in the morning. It's left unclear if this is because he got tired of her or because of a sexual adventure the night before. | |
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Palm Springs / int_ad3e13c5 | |
| Palm Springs / int_aedf5f52 | type |
ThereIsNoGod | |
| Palm Springs / int_aedf5f52 | comment |
There Is No God: Stated word for word by Nyles — not that he has any actual knowledge of the supernatural, but it seems to be a reasonable conclusion to come to after being trapped for decades in a quantum time loop for no obvious reason. | |
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| Palm Springs / int_afc6df04 | type |
What You Are in the Dark | |
| Palm Springs / int_afc6df04 | comment |
What You Are in the Dark: While he's free of any consequences for his actions, Nyles still doesn't want to hurt anyone as he claims he still has to live with the guilt of knowing what he did even if the other person never will. | |
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Palm Springs / int_afc6df04 | |
| Palm Springs / int_affc0c98 | type |
Significant Wardrobe Shift | |
| Palm Springs / int_affc0c98 | comment |
Significant Wardrobe Shift: When we first meet Sarah she's dressed in a bridesmaid's gown for the wedding, and for a while that's the main way we see her dressed. After she's fully given into nihilism and accepted the time loop, she switches to swanning around in a garish leopard-print jacket worn over a one-piece bathing suit. This mirrors a mostly-unseen similar shift in Nyles' backstory, where on the first few loops he was still wearing a formal suit and tie to attend the wedding, before shifting to just wearing a Hawaiian shirt over his bathing trunks the whole day. | |
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Palm Springs / int_affc0c98 | |
| Palm Springs / int_b070362d | type |
Wicked Stepmother | |
| Palm Springs / int_b070362d | comment |
Wicked Stepmother: At the very least, Sarah and her stepmother clearly don't get along. Sarah angrily corrects Nyles when he assumes Pia is her mother, and in time loops where Sarah skips the wedding, Pia is quick to assume that Sarah left because Tala's wedding wouldn't be about her. | |
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Palm Springs / int_b070362d | |
| Palm Springs / int_b39d5719 | type |
Sadist | |
| Palm Springs / int_b39d5719 | comment |
Sadist: Since neither can die, Roy's Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Nyles seems to focus on causing him as much fear and pain as possible. | |
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Palm Springs / int_b39d5719 | |
| Palm Springs / int_b5ac90ac | type |
"Groundhog Day" Loop | |
| Palm Springs / int_b5ac90ac | comment |
"Groundhog Day" Loop: The time loop is caused by a mysterious glowing rift in a rocky hill. Anyone who enters the rift is sucked into the time loop, repeating the same day whenever they lose consciousness, die or re-enter the rift. | |
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Palm Springs / int_b5ac90ac | |
| Palm Springs / int_b5b097fd | type |
Beer Goggles | |
| Palm Springs / int_b5b097fd | comment |
Beer Goggles: Randy repeatedly tries to hit on Sarah at the wedding's afterparty. When she asks him why he doesn't let off, he replies that her increased level of alcohol may sway her opinion about him eventually. | |
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Palm Springs / int_b5b097fd | |
| Palm Springs / int_b9e8ad28 | type |
The Multiverse | |
| Palm Springs / int_b9e8ad28 | comment |
The Multiverse: Mentioned by name when Nyles and Sarah are discussing what happens to the other people in their world after the time loop resets. Seems to be confirmed, when Nyles and Sarah's successful escape leaves Roy stuck in the loop with a "normal" version of Nyles who never experienced the loop. | |
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Palm Springs / int_b9e8ad28 | |
| Palm Springs / int_bb18a227 | type |
It's All About Me | |
| Palm Springs / int_bb18a227 | comment |
It's All About Me: It doesn't take much for Sarah's parents and friends to conclude in loops where she doesn't show up, that it's because she wouldn't be the centre of attention and she can't take it. | |
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1.0 | |
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Palm Springs / int_bb18a227 | |
| Palm Springs / int_c12d6db6 | type |
Earthquakes Cause Fissures | |
| Palm Springs / int_c12d6db6 | comment |
Earthquakes Cause Fissures: The earthquake in the opening scene causes the ground to crack open and reveal lava underneath. | |
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Palm Springs / int_c12d6db6 | |
| Palm Springs / int_c40c8b74 | type |
And Starring | |
| Palm Springs / int_c40c8b74 | comment |
And Starring: With Peter Gallagher. And J. K. Simmons. | |
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Palm Springs / int_c40c8b74 | |
| Palm Springs / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Palm Springs / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: When Nyles picks a fight with the bartender in order to steal his car keys, he starts off by yelling "I'm an adult!", a reference to the song "Threw It on the Ground" by The Lonely Island. | |
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Palm Springs / int_c75df49a | |
| Palm Springs / int_c92a65bd | type |
Bitter Wedding Speech | |
| Palm Springs / int_c92a65bd | comment |
Bitter Wedding Speech: Subverted. After his girlfriend finishes her disappointing wedding speech, Nyles grabs the mic and starts a speech of his own. We are to assume that in his drunken state he is gonna dress down the bride and groom but surprisingly he delivers an emotional, uplifting speech. It's later revealed that we would do this only to get into Sarah's panties. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Palm Springs / int_c92a65bd | |
| Palm Springs / int_cafdaf4e | type |
Trust Password | |
| Palm Springs / int_cafdaf4e | comment |
Trust Password: When Nyles pulls the Luke, You Are My Father trick on Spuds, he mentions that the latter lost his virginity to a woman in a bathroom which convinces Spuds that Nyles must be the son of him and that woman. | |
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Palm Springs / int_cafdaf4e | |
| Palm Springs / int_cc3c365f | type |
Goofy Print Underwear | |
| Palm Springs / int_cc3c365f | comment |
Goofy Print Underwear: Nyles' signature polka dot boxer shorts, which he seems to never take off, even wearing them under his swimming trunks in the pool. | |
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Palm Springs / int_cc3c365f | |
| Palm Springs / int_cd7f2d9a | type |
Lip-Lock Sun-Block | |
| Palm Springs / int_cd7f2d9a | comment |
Lip-Lock Sun-Block: Nyles and Sarah have their Big Damn Kiss at the end in front of a bright glow from inside the cave. | |
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1.0 | |
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Palm Springs / int_cd7f2d9a | |
| Palm Springs / int_ce2969d8 | type |
Spiritual Antithesis | |
| Palm Springs / int_ce2969d8 | comment |
Spiritual Antithesis: To Russian Doll. Both have a pair of people trapped in the loop, and details their attempts to escape. However, Russian Doll is a much darker story, and is played for more drama and with higher stakes. To the Twilight Zone episode Try, Try, which was released less than a month before. Both of them include the perspective of the female protagonist outside the loop looking in to the male trapped inside, with both of them having the male tailor his behavior over a period of time in an attempt to seduce her. But while this film plays it generally for comedy, Try, Try plays it out as a horror story. | |
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Palm Springs / int_ce2969d8 | |
| Palm Springs / int_d45c0b86 | type |
Refuge in Audacity | |
| Palm Springs / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: Nyles and Sarah take full advantage of their ability to get away with a lot in the loop. The most audacious becomes acting out a bizarre action film/pirate fantasy involving a bomb in the wedding cake during the toast at the wedding. | |
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Palm Springs / int_d45c0b86 | |
| Palm Springs / int_dd08dba9 | type |
Token Black Friend | |
| Palm Springs / int_dd08dba9 | comment |
Token Black Friend: Jerry Schlieffen, who is also a Twofer Token Minority — he gets no characterization other than being just a cool, charming guy that has no involvement in the wedding drama and in one loop is Nyles' Gay Option when he's "experimenting". | |
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Palm Springs / int_dd08dba9 | |
| Palm Springs / int_deecc9eb | type |
Awful Wedded Life | |
| Palm Springs / int_deecc9eb | comment |
Awful Wedded Life: Roy ends up hitting it off with Nyles — and getting himself stuck in the time loop — because he confides to Nyles at the bar that "marriage is a bottomless pit of sorrow". It turns out that he was at the wedding in the first place as an excuse to get away from his wife and kids and party for the first time in a long time, leading to Roy's ill-fated exclamation that his drug-fueled bender with Nyles is "the greatest night of my life" and that he "never wants it to end". He comes to regret this, deeply, and a big part of his Heel Realization is learning to love his family again and appreciate what he has. | |
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Palm Springs / int_deecc9eb | |
| Palm Springs / int_e071496c | type |
Within Arm's Reach | |
| Palm Springs / int_e071496c | comment |
Within Arm's Reach: After Nyles reveals that Sarah slept with her sister's fiancée on the night of their wedding, he tackles Nyles. Nyles grabs a fork that fell off the table and stabs him in the face with it. | |
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Palm Springs / int_e071496c | |
| Palm Springs / int_e135b3de | type |
Pass the Popcorn | |
| Palm Springs / int_e135b3de | comment |
Pass the Popcorn: Nyles watching the wedding ceremony while sipping on his beer can and waiting for Sarah to make a scene by telling everyone about her one-night stand with the groom. But it doesn't come to it. | |
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Palm Springs / int_e135b3de | |
| Palm Springs / int_e2121aa2 | type |
Post–Wake-Up Realization | |
| Palm Springs / int_e2121aa2 | comment |
Post–Wake-Up Realization: The major Wham Shot of the movie takes place as we find out about where Sarah was waking up each time the loop resets. It turns out, Sarah had slept with Abe, her sister's fiance, the night before the wedding and the guilt she feels over this is makes being caught in the time loop particularly bad. When her relationship with Nyles was good, it allowed her the distraction of quickly getting out of bed and avoiding the situation, but after her falling out, she returns to the painful realization and dedicates herself to finding a way out of the loop. | |
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Palm Springs / int_e2121aa2 | |
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Closed Circle | |
| Palm Springs / int_e2a6ebc1 | comment |
Closed Circle: Played with. The rules of the time loop are more flexible than the ones in Groundhog Day in that the time loop only resets when you fall asleep even if you go past midnight and well into the next day. Also, there are no obstacles keeping one there, so you can travel anywhere you like, for as long as you can stay awake. But it's unpleasant, exhausting, and ultimately futile because you always end up back at the Palm Springs hotel eventually. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Misty. Her speech at the wedding reception starts with the tired trope of quoting the dictionary definitions of the words "love" and "commitment", then suddenly ends. That was her entire speech. | |
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Switching P.O.V. | |
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Switching P.O.V.: Nyles is the main POV character for the vast majority of the film, it also switches to Sarah on several occasions and Roy in The Stinger. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Sarah. She becomes so determined to escape the time loop that she starts studying quantum physics, and ends up achieving graduate-level knowledge in the subject, entirely through books and online physics courses. | |
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Angry Collar Grab | |
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Angry Collar Grab: After Sarah gets caught in the time loop for the first time, it gets her so enraged that she jumps into the pool and pulls on Nyles' shirt screaming "Tell me what the fuck is going on!" | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Sarah is the older child and the one treated as a failure by her family, while her sister Tala is the All-Loving Hero everyone admires. It's implied this is why she was willing to sabotage Tala's marriage by sleeping with her fiance. | |
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Moment Killer | |
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Moment Killer: Nyles tries to wank off at the sight of his girlfriend dressing up but her constant cursing over missing jewelry makes him lose the moment. | |
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Time Loop Fatigue | |
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Time Loop Fatigue: Nyles has been in the loop long enough to be quite jaded at the start of the film. He tries to deal with it by drinking heavily and making little effort to do anything. He also attempted a lot of suicides trying to get out of the loop but nothing worked. | |
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Hard-Work Montage | |
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Hard-Work Montage: We get treated to a montage of Sarah studying science books and online courses to find a solution to break the loop. | |
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Hustling the Mark | |
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Hustling the Mark: Lampshaded and averted. When Nyles and the old lady at the bar play darts for $100, he continuously hits the bullseye (due to excessive training) which makes her wonder why he did not try to rope her in using the trope. | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: Nyles and Sarah both indulge in this, thanks to the immortality the time loop gives them. Such as Sarah standing up in a convertible only to lose her balance and fall out onto the road — with Nyles just laughing and leaving her body behind — and an instance of Nyles and Sarah stealing a prop plane for a joyride and flying like crazy as they run out of gas and crash. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: No one in the wedding party knows who Nyles is, and he never feels the need to identify himself as anything more than Misty's boyfriend. | |
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Weaponized Animal | |
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Spuds' pet goat, which appears in the very first shot of the movie, plays a major role in the ending. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: In one loop, Nyles hooks up with Daisy the bartender and she revealed that she once hit a man in the very car they're having sex in and she doesn't think he ever walked again. | |
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