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The Wrong Guy
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A 1997 comedy film starring Dave Foley, Jennifer Tilly, David Anthony Higgins and Colm Feore.Nelson Hibbert (Foley) is a slightly obnoxious executive who will do anything he can to get to the top, and is convinced that his boss (Kenneth Welsh) is about to announce him as the new president of the company. When his boss instead gives this position to his hated rival, Nelson doesn't take it very well, and ends up yelling death threats at his boss while being dragged away by security. To make matters worse, a few minutes later Nelson's boss is murdered, and Nelson is the first one to discover the body. Panicking and paranoid, Nelson is convinced that the police will conclude he is the murderer (not least because of the many ways he accidentally implicates himself) and decides to go on the run... unaware that the police already know who the real murderer is, and aren't interested in Nelson in the slightest. Hilarity Ensues as Nelson frequently crosses paths with both the cops and the real killer at the worst times possible.Unfortunately, the film only received a theatrical release in Canada, and it was only released direct-to-video in the U.S. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_1285edb8 | type |
Fugitive Arc | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_1285edb8 | comment |
Fugitive Arc: Nelson's character arc is a parody of one. It's a "Shaggy Dog" Story from the very beginning, and Nelson's actions are just plain absurd. | |
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It May Help You on Your Quest | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_16dad7a7 | comment |
It May Help You on Your Quest: Parodied. Nelson believes that two teabags and a sheet of wax paper will help him later, but when the right time comes, he has no idea what to do with them. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_18d420b0 | type |
Lovable Coward | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_18d420b0 | comment |
Lovable Coward: Nelson. | |
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Just the Introduction to the Opposites | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_19661850 | comment |
Just the Introduction to the Opposites: Instead of a sinister banker out to foreclose on a poor farmer, it's a rich fatcat farmer trying to crush a small local bank. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_1b65dfad | type |
The Cameo | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_1b65dfad | comment |
The Cameo: Dave Foley's fellow Kid in the Hall Kevin McDonald shows up as a motel clerk. Mark McKinney also has an uncredited cameo. Canadian sketch comedy greats Dan Redican of The Frantics and Joe Flaherty of SCTV, both acknowledged influences on the Kids in the Hall, play rival executive Ken Daly and Lynn's father Fred Holden respectively. The Barenaked Ladies appear as the cops playing quarters in an alley, then end up singing A Cappella songs ("Gangster Girl...") well into the night, cornering Nelson in his dumpster hiding place. Director David Steinberg is the hospital patient whose newspaper Nelson tries to steal for a Newspaper-Thin Disguise. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_1ba17583 | type |
The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Constance, Nelson's fiancee. He calls her twice to update her on events, including that he's fallen in love with another woman, but we never see or hear her. Even his keepsake photograph in his wallet doesn't have her in it. | |
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Who Shot JFK? | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_1f8cdb5c | comment |
Who Shot JFK?: The insane man who picks up the hitchhiking Nelson believes that "Kennedy's head just did that". He calls it "The No-Bullet Theory". | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: When the killer starts shooting at the cops in the motel parking lot, the motel clerk wraps himself in Nelson's towel while ducking down, apparently expecting that it will protect him from bullets. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: The killer remarks that he'd never marry someone just to further his career. Nelson objects, "Hey, you don't know what it's like out there!" | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_3cb6468e | type |
Bad Liar | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: Nelson. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_46d7e20a | type |
Sustained Misunderstanding | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_46d7e20a | comment |
Sustained Misunderstanding: Exaggerated to the point where it's the underpinning of the whole movie. Nobody actually thinks Nelson killed his boss, but the police never track him down and tell him as much, so he spends the entire movie on the run. By sheer Contrived Coincidence, he keeps coming across the actual killer, who comes to think he's some kind of supercop hunting him down. The audience can see how wrong they both are, but neither of them realize it until the scene when they finally meet. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: Nelson tries to throw a towel over his head and walk around the motel parking lot pretending to be someone else. Since he's obviously too small and shrill to be the killer, however, he's completely ignored. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_4a57732a | type |
Friendless Background | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_4a57732a | comment |
Friendless Background: Apparently no one likes Nelson at all at his company. As he greets everyone in the morning, every single person reacts with confusion or annoyance at his attention. His coworkers also seem to delight in his misery when he sobs into the intercom. | |
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Big "WHAT?!" | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_4a8c4e5f | comment |
Big "WHAT?!": | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_570be107 | type |
Sleepyhead | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_570be107 | comment |
Sleepyhead: Lynn, a narcoleptic, keeps passing out at inopportune moments, like at the dramatic height of Nelson's confession, or while driving. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
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Air-Vent Passageway: How the killer escapes the scene of Nelson's boss's murder. His escape is caught on security cameras, and Detective Arlen makes a point to mention how impressive his escape was to other people. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_5e1ecc50 | type |
Mistaken for Badass | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_5e1ecc50 | comment |
Mistaken for Badass: Nelson by the killer, because of the way he keeps turning up right on his trail, like some kind of "supercop." Not by anyone else, though. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_607d4ada | type |
Run for the Border | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_607d4ada | comment |
Run for the Border: Nelson is trying to get to Mexico, while the real killer hopes to leave the country with a Swiss passport. | |
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BigDamnKiss | |
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Big Damn Kiss: Nelson and Lynn share a passionate kiss at the very end of the film, only for Lynn to pass out again and force Nelson to awkwardly drag her limp body away. | |
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It's a Small World, After All | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_61e3b6ae | comment |
It's a Small World, After All: Even when Nelson's plan is to Run for the Border as fast as he can, he just constantly runs into the cops assigned to the case and the killer. By the third act, the killer even voices his thoughts that Nelson is pulling a Richard Kimble and is chasing him. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_65df51a6 | type |
That Poor Car | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_65df51a6 | comment |
That Poor Car: Parodied. Lynn, during a narcoleptic episode, crashes the stolen catering truck into a van carrying a load of car alarms. | |
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Line-of-Sight Alias | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_702c2de3 | comment |
Line-of-Sight Alias: Nelson wakes up in a hospital. Believing he's a wanted man, he needs a fake name. So he tries "Enemabag Jones". When the doctor isn't convinced he tries again, reading "Dr. Helen Harris" off her nametag. Later, when he meets Lynn, he scans her dashboard for options before giving up and just telling her his real name. | |
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Obviously Evil | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Farmer Brown. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_7c9dcc1 | comment |
The Unfavorite: Nelson thought he was a lock for the promotion as he's engaged to the boss' daughter. It turns out the guy who got it is engaged to the boss's favorite daughter. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_83f0971b | type |
Mexican Standoff | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_83f0971b | comment |
Mexican Standoff: Not in play, as neatly explained by the killer: | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_8797239c | type |
Bait-and-Switch | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: Nelson pulls a keepsake photograph from his wallet, with the implication that we will finally see his off-screen fiancée Constance, but it's just a photo of himself at a Mexican restaurant. | |
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Parental Favoritism | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_88933ad4 | comment |
Parental Favoritism: Nelson assumes being married to his boss' daughter means he's got the promotion locked up, but it turns out Ken Daly is married to his favorite daughter. Nelson asks what kind of man has a favorite daughter (because they should label them as such if they do). | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Nelson's boss really had it coming. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_8ee710e7 | type |
Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_8ee710e7 | comment |
Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Nelson not only takes the knife out of Nagel's body, he hangs onto it, brandishes it as he walks through the building, drops it in the elevator and has it handed back to him by another passenger, and when he finally tries to get rid of it by throwing it off a bridge, it lands directly on a police boat. | |
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Saving the Orphanage | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_9bb0dcc5 | comment |
Saving the Orphanage: Inverted. The small town where Lynn and her father live is under the thumb of the greedy Farmer Brown, who wants to demolish their bank and replace it with a cornfield. We see him on the phone with someone at one point, saying, "I don't care if that strip mall's been in your family for generations. Soon it'll be a pasture for dairy cattle, and there's nothing you can do about it." | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_a11f8240 | type |
Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_a11f8240 | comment |
Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Of the two cops assigned to finding Nagel's murderer, one uses the investigation as a thin excuse to eat at restaurants, visit strip clubs, see Broadway musicals, etc., and the other seems to believe this will genuinely help. | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_a188ac4b | comment |
Overly-Long Gag: Nelson discovering his boss's dead body is essentially 3 minutes of Dave Foley screaming and trying to wipe his boss's blood off himself. | |
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The Food Poisoning Incident | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_a25af902 | comment |
The Food Poisoning Incident: Happens to Nelson twice, once when he happily eats some strange berries and a large mushroom he finds in the woods, and more understandably when he hides in a freight car full of canned hams that turn out to be tainted. | |
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Weirdness Censor | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_abdf7d09 | comment |
Weirdness Censor: No matter how conspicuous Nelson makes himself by trying to be inconspicuous, other characters never react beyond giving him strange looks. | |
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Tap on the Head | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: The killer knocks Nelson out with the butt of his gun and carries him part of the way into the miniature-golf course. When he notices that Nelson has woken up, he's indignant. Nelson innocently protests that he thought the killer wanted to carry him. | |
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Reactive Continuous Scream | |
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Reactive Continuous Scream: Nelson and the room full of people outside his dead boss's office when he walks out covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: Nelson is told its possible to kill someone with only two teabags and some wax paper. When attacked by the villain he waves these items around in the air since he has no idea how it's supposed to work. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_b7d89879 | type |
Flashed-Badge Hijack | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_b7d89879 | comment |
Flashed-Badge Hijack: Detective Arlen tends to abuse this in order to get what he wants. Taken to ridiculous extremes in the climax, where he commandeers an old man's mobility scooter using this method to save him a walk of what can only be about fifty feet at most. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_b8960bcd | type |
Local Angle | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_b8960bcd | comment |
Local Angle: Farmer Brown owns the town newspaper, so uses Nelson's fugitive status to cause a run on the bank. When one of the angry citizens produces a copy of the paper, the front-page headlines read "Teller Is a Cold-Blooded Murderer" and "Run on Bank Planned for Later Today." | |
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Coincidental Accidental Disguise | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_bbb94287 | comment |
Coincidental Accidental Disguise: Upon escaping the bank, Nelson, in his old-timey uniform, is immediately offered a ride on a bus headed for a barbershop-quartet convention. A second later, a bus going to the "Emotionally Disturbed Veterans' Retreat" stops for the killer, who is of course dressed accordingly. | |
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Clear My Name | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_bc3cb7ff | comment |
Clear My Name: Subverted; Nelson thinks he's in this trope and goes on the run, but it's made instantly clear that the police already know he didn't do it and aren't interested in him in the least. Too bad no one tells Nelson that. | |
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I Lied | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_c3245c20 | comment |
I Lied: Nagel's explanation when Nelson points out that he told him he was going to be the next president of the company. | |
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Unpronounceable Alias | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_c8e31c0b | comment |
Unpronounceable Alias: Nelson signs a fake name into the motel registry, but it's apparently unpronounceable. When the clerk tries to read it back, he stumbles, and Nelson tries to help him but is equally confused by the name he himself wrote down. | |
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Newspaper-Thin Disguise | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_db69b32c | comment |
Director David Steinberg is the hospital patient whose newspaper Nelson tries to steal for a Newspaper-Thin Disguise. | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_dc031fde | type |
Inelegant Blubbering | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_dc031fde | comment |
Inelegant Blubbering: Nelson weeps uncontrollably in his office after finding out he's been passed over, little realizing that he's been leaning on the intercom, and his coworkers have all been listening in to laugh at him. | |
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1.0 | |
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The Wrong Guy / int_dc031fde | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_ddeaea82 | type |
Miscarriage of Justice | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_ddeaea82 | comment |
Miscarriage of Justice: Subverted; Nelson, having discovered the body and, through a convoluted series of mishaps, ended up being covered in his boss's blood, flees because he's convinced this is going to happen. The police, however, have ample amounts of evidence that point to the real killer and are not interested in him in the slightest. | |
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-0.3 | |
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| The Wrong Guy / int_e2d457 | type |
The Ditz | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_e2d457 | comment |
The Ditz: Nelson is not the brightest of men. | |
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The Wrong Guy / int_e2d457 | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_e529d5c3 | type |
Torches and Pitchforks | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_e529d5c3 | comment |
Torches and Pitchforks: To bring down the bank, Farmer Brown runs an article in his newspaper accusing Nelson (currently working as a teller) of killing Nagel, with this result. Lynn's father tries Shaming the Mob with a speech straight out of It's a Wonderful Life, to no avail. | |
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The Wrong Guy / int_e529d5c3 | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_eadeb4d6 | type |
Climbing Climax | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_eadeb4d6 | comment |
Climbing Climax: Parodied. It takes place at a miniature-golf course full of replicas of American landmarks, and the killer takes Nelson and Lynn hostage at the top of the Statue of Liberty, which is just a big plywood head. When he (inevitably) falls to the ground, he only groans and complains, "I fell on my keys." | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_eadeb4d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Wrong Guy | hasFeature |
The Wrong Guy / int_eadeb4d6 | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_f9f2c33 | type |
Running Gag | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: People keep mistaking Nelson for a woman because of his small stature and high-pitched voice. Detective Arlen wants nothing to do with catching the killer and is constantly using the police's funding of his case to his advantage. Lynn's narcolepsy. | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_f9f2c33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Wrong Guy / int_f9f2c33 | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_fd7267dd | type |
Master of Disguise | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_fd7267dd | comment |
Master of Disguise: Played for laughs with the murderer, who has an endless supply of disguises and goes through them at an unnecessary rate. | |
| The Wrong Guy / int_fd7267dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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The Wrong Guy / int_fd7267dd | |
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