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The Dead Girl

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The Dead Girl	comment	An indie film released in 2006 about a murdered woman and the stories of four other women as their lives come together because of her death.The Dead Girl is split up into five parts which are shown in the following order: The Stranger - Arden (Toni Collette), a woman with an abusive mother finds the body in a field. The Sister - A coroner (Leah) who believes the body is her sister's, a girl who was abducted fifteen years before the start of the film. The Wife - Ruth (Mary Beth Hurt), a housewife who rents storage units, makes a troubling discovery about her husband. The Mother - Melora, the mother of the dead girl, deals with the aftermath of her daughter's death. The Dead Girl - The story of the girl, Krista (Brittany Murphy), shortly before she is killed.Not to be confused with Deadgirl, a 2008 psycho horror about an undead girl found in an abandoned asylum, or with the novel Deadgirl, which not related to either of these films.
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The Dead Girl / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
The Dead Girl / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Arden asks Rudy to tie her up and rape her in an attempt to emulate what happened to the dead girl. Rudy can't do it because he thinks it's creepy and weird.
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The Dead Girl / int_4b4f6a2f	type	Mood-Swinger
The Dead Girl / int_4b4f6a2f	comment	Mood-Swinger: He seems cowed and apathetic for most of The Wife, but after being pushed a bit too far by Ruth, Carl shows his horrible temper.
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The Dead Girl / int_606244c2	type	Parental Incest
The Dead Girl / int_606244c2	comment	Krista's step-father, who molested her and was the driving force behind her running away from home as a teenager.
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The Dead Girl / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
The Dead Girl / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Ruth finds the clothes and identification of several murdered prostitutes in one of her "empty" storage units.
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The Dead Girl / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Dead Girl / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Krista is portrayed as one of these. She tries to give her daughter a gift on her birthday, but just can't muster up the courage.
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The Dead Girl / int_9f4bec33	type	Destroy the Evidence
The Dead Girl / int_9f4bec33	comment	Destroy the Evidence: Ruth ends up destroying all the trophies her husband (Carl) kept, setting them on fire and even taking off and burning her own clothes.
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The Dead Girl / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Dead Girl / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: The last part of The Mother has Melora singing You Are My Sunshine to her granddaughter while she screams and cries in the bathtub.
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The Dead Girl / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Dead Girl / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Arden's mother, who is invalid and psychologically and verbally abuses Arden. The events of the film finally give Arden the courage to leave. Krista's step-father, who molested her and was the driving force behind her running away from home as a teenager.
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The Dead Girl / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Dead Girl / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Don't use the Lord's name in vain around Ruth.
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The Dead Girl / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
The Dead Girl / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Ruth, who is very religious and goes berserk when her husband uses the lord's name in vain.
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The Dead Girl / int_ecbf37ff	type	Disposable Sex Worker
The Dead Girl / int_ecbf37ff	comment	Disposable Sex Worker: Krista, although she's given an unusual amount of backstory, fits this trope to a T. She was sexually abused by her step-father, has an illegitimate child in someone else's care that she wants to connect with (but couldn't), and was just the last out of a string of prostitutes who were murdered by the same serial killer.
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The Dead Girl / int_f12d9d83	type	Promotion to Parent
The Dead Girl / int_f12d9d83	comment	Promotion to Parent: In a subversion, Krista's mother gets a second chance at parenthood when she discovers that Krista had a child of her own.
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The Dead Girl / int_f516f938	type	Never Found the Body
The Dead Girl / int_f516f938	comment	Never Found the Body: Leah's sister was abducted fifteen years ago, and Leah insists (to her mother!) that she was raped, murdered and dismembered and then hidden somewhere she'll never be found.
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