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Their Finest	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A 2016 film about World War II, adapted from the book Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans. The story is based on a real woman who was a scriptwriter (often uncredited) for the Ministry of Information, making propaganda films to boost morale.Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) is a former secretary who took over some writing duties in the Ministry of Information as the men in the department got called up, attracting the notice of the film division with a newspaper cartoon she wrote. The film writers task her with researching the story of two sisters who reportedly piloted their father's boat to Dunkirk and back, in hopes of doing a film of it. Catrin discovers that the boat actually failed before it ever left English waters and the twins, Rose and Lily, are both reticent women under the thumb of an abusive father. But needing the job and not wanting to be sent back to Wales by her struggling artist husband Ellis (Jack Huston), Catrin lies in reporting the account. It nearly gets her fired when discovered, but her male colleagues and her boss argue to make it anyway. She clashes with Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin), another screenwriter who is skeptical about women's value in writing, but they slowly begin to respect and even like one another.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Meanwhile, the actor Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy) argues with his agent over being cast as the drunk uncle, having made his name as the dashing hero in a series of detective films but too arrogant to accept that he's aged out of those roles. When a bombing hits close to him, he accepts the role. As filming commences, the friction between the Ministry people, the crew, and the actors gradually fades and they become close.Helen McCrory, Eddie Marsan, Rachael Stirling, Richard E. Grant, Paul Ritter, Jeremy Irons, and Jake Lacy play supporting roles.
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Their Finest / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Their Finest / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Lundbeck is a huge fan of Hilliard and has practically memorized all of his detective films. This is a help when Hilliard has to be talked into giving the boy some coaching.
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Their Finest / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Their Finest / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Most of the main characters from the book besides Ambrose, Catrin and Tom. One whose absence is particularly felt is Arthur, a Dunkirk veteran (he was in the catering corps) who is brought in as a consultant for accuracy and shares an office with Ambrose.
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Their Finest / int_375bb8f2	type	Good Is Dumb
Their Finest / int_375bb8f2	comment	Good Is Dumb: Lundbeck the Danish-American pilot, especially in the book, where he admits to having enlisted in the Eagle Squadrons while American remained neutral due to mistakenly believing that England was going to fight Russia (although he stayed there after realizing his mistake out of loyalty to his comrades).
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Their Finest / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Their Finest / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Hilliard, after Sammy's death, gradually begins to shed his prima donna attitude and develops a sense of respect and affection for his costars and the crew while filming in Devon. When Sophie is convinced that he's worth keeping as a client, she offers to get him the special accommodations he'd always demanded (separate rooms and no interaction with the crew, especially electricians for some reason), Hilliard looks ashamed to be reminded.
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Their Finest / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Their Finest / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In-Universe: Lily and Rose's alcoholic, abusive father is changed to a comically drunken uncle with a tragic past, who accompanies the twins (albeit accidentally) and is killed trying to fix the propeller.
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Their Finest / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Their Finest / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The film is a huge success, and seeing their alter egos onscreen inspires the real Rose and Lily to flee their father and enlist in the Mechanised Transport Corps, but Catrin is isolated and alone after Tom's death. Hilliard convinces Catrin to return to the Ministry, and when she finally sees the completed film decides that she should go on.
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Their Finest / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Their Finest / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: A theme of the story. Early on Catrin laments that the director's son died in a way that didn't "mean anything," but Tom replies that it never means anything. Tom is killed by a total accident when someone leans on a rickety lighting rig and it topples over.
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Their Finest / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
Their Finest / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: Hilliard has a Hope Spot when he's asked to identify Sammy's body after an air raid and it has a finger that he should be missing. The nurse dashes it by explaining that they do their best to put bodies back together for the families and had simply "reattached" a finger, not realizing it was a previous injury.
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Their Finest / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Their Finest / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The techniques discussed by the writers, directors, and actors for use in "The Nancy Starling" are easily visible in the overall film.
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Their Finest / int_4e4f42be	type	Love Confession
Their Finest / int_4e4f42be	comment	Love Confession: Catrin spends the night at the office "rewriting" her rejection of Buckley's proposal and their subsequent bitter argument with a better ending, leaving it for him to find. It works.
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Their Finest / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Their Finest / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Rose and Lily are thirty, timid, and visibly bearing the strain of living in poverty with an abusive father. The film makes them vivacious twenty-one-year-olds with beautiful dresses and makeup.
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Their Finest / int_70e642a9	type	Luvvies
Their Finest / int_70e642a9	comment	Luvvies: Hilliard, a self-important and fussy ex-matinee star.
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Their Finest / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Their Finest / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: in the novel, Hilliard's moment of glory was in playing a memorable supporting character in the Inspector Charnforth movies, while in the film, he played the lead, and apparently had a long and successful run as a matinee idol. His transforming the comical character of Uncle Frank into a nuanced, and interesting one was also not present in the book.
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Their Finest / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Their Finest / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: At first it's just belligerent between Tom and Catrin, but after working together and his seeing her skill, it becomes more affectionate.
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Their Finest / int_767caf1f	type	Multiple Demographic Appeal
Their Finest / int_767caf1f	comment	Multiple Demographic Appeal: In-Universe, the movie is intentionally crafted to appeal to the broadest possible audience: men and women, British and Americans, and children, young adults, and the elderly.
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Their Finest / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Their Finest / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Phyl knows that she's disliked by her male colleagues and the feeling is mutual, and tells Catrin she doesn't see the point in men. She's not keen on being "put back into our boxes" when the war is over and the men come back. She's also strongly implied to be a lesbian (although she does admit that if she were "inclined" differently, she might find Lundbeck attractive).
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Their Finest / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Their Finest / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: In-universe. Creating a film in a country that's under attack and with most of the potential actors gone to war is no easy task.
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Their Finest / int_7b3352a9	type	Heroic Safe Mode
Their Finest / int_7b3352a9	comment	Heroic Safe Mode: After Tom's death, Catrin can only stare in shock. She doesn't attend the premiere and withdraws to a small flat to live quietly. It's not until Hilliard visits to try and convince her to return that she breaks down sobbing.
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Their Finest / int_814356cb	type	White-Dwarf Starlet
Their Finest / int_814356cb	comment	White-Dwarf Starlet: Hilliard is a male version. He starred in a popular series of detective films about a Sherlock Holmes type of character and is still stopped on the street by fans, but he hasn't been offered a role in some time. When his agent Sammy hands him the script for "The Nancy Starling," Hilliard initially thinks he's playing the hero.
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Their Finest / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Their Finest / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Ambrose Hilliard, played by Bill Nighy, steals basically all the scenes he's in.
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Their Finest / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Their Finest / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: There's a bit of a flap with them when the inclusion of the American character, who must of course be heroic and attractive, creates the appearance of a Love Triangle between him, Rose, and Johnny the English hero.
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Their Finest / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Their Finest / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The focus on the damaged lighting rig, operated by an inexperienced technician, and the background dialogue about it. Tom is killed when it falls.
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Their Finest / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Their Finest / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Catrin is caught outside when a bomb falls and picks her way through the rubble in horror at the bodies around her until she realizes they're mannequins from a storefront and starts to giggle in relief... and then she finds a real woman's bloody corpse, and throws up. Also, later in the film, when Tom dies, moments earlier Catrin and Tom had finally kissed and made up, and everything looked happy. Then the lighting rig falls on Tom.
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Their Finest / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
Their Finest / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Phyl, most likely short for Phyllis.
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Their Finest / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Their Finest / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: The scenes Catrin writes are played out as imaginary, desaturated sequences.
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Their Finest / int_a8f3f520	type	Death Is Dramatic
Their Finest / int_a8f3f520	comment	Death Is Dramatic: The death of the Uncle Frank character. He dies in his nieces' arms, mistaking the soldiers for his sons who died in the first World War.
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Their Finest / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Their Finest / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: When Catrin interviews the twins, a French soldier trying to kiss one of them is clearly an uncomfortable memory that makes them shudder. In the film it's played as a romantic moment.
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Their Finest / int_b2e94341	type	Based on a Great Big Lie
Their Finest / int_b2e94341	comment	Based on a Great Big Lie: After the truth of Lily and Rose's participation in Dunkirk is discovered, the writing team convinces the Ministry to make the film as "based on a thousand true stories" rather than a documentary as originally planned.
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Their Finest / int_b3987997	type	Men Act, Women Are
Their Finest / int_b3987997	comment	Men Act, Women Are: Early on, Catrin and Tom argue about having Rose fix the engine in the film. She says that women need to see themselves able to be heroic, but he insists that women don't want to be heroes, they want to have the hero rescue them. After the accident with the lighting rig kills him and injures all the actors who would have played the engine-fixing part, Catrin quietly makes the suggestion again and Rose frees the engine in the final cut. This is present also in Catrin's life with her position as Ellis' "muse" and his resistance to her job.
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Their Finest / int_b6de94d1	type	Executive Meddling
Their Finest / int_b6de94d1	comment	Executive Meddling: In-Universe, the Ministry of Information pushes numerous alterations and edits on the film team. Among these are insisting that the engine shouldn't fail because the idea of British engines failing might hurt public morale, and the last-minute addition of an American character played by a handsome pilot who can't act.
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Their Finest / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Their Finest / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Both in the film and in the film within the film. The film within a film triangle ends with the third backing out gracefully, the other ends with Ellis leaving...but Tom dies anyway.
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Their Finest / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Their Finest / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The film "The Nancy Starling."
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Their Finest / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Their Finest / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: Enforced in-universe. The producers and British government want to get the Americans involved in the war, so insert a noncombatant American character to catch their interest.
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Their Finest / int_c5249c79	type	Nice Hat
Their Finest / int_c5249c79	comment	Nice Hat: This being London in the blitz, there isn't too much elaborate fashion but some sneaks in there, especially in the film costumes.
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Their Finest / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Their Finest / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The sisters, inspired by their fictional heroics in the movie, enlist to become mechanics.
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Their Finest / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Their Finest / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To various stars of the era from Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, to Britain's own, Robert Donat. The twins wonder if Catrin has met the latter and are excited when they get a photograph from Eric of Donat.
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Their Finest / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Their Finest / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Catrin laments that Lundbeck might not be so bad if all the audience had to do was look at him—then she and Buckley share a Meaningful Look when they realize that's the solution exactly.
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Their Finest / int_d3540d32	type	Life Imitates Art
Their Finest / int_d3540d32	comment	Life Imitates Art: In-Universe, Lily and Rose are inspired by their heroic and capable counterparts in the movie to become mechanics.
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Their Finest / int_e407c172	type	Silk Hiding Steel
Their Finest / int_e407c172	comment	Silk Hiding Steel: Sophie, the sister of Hilliard's agent Sammy. He speaks of her as someone he needs to support, and when he is killed she seems frail and lost. However, when she takes charge of the agency, she quickly puts Hilliard in his place with a no-nonsense attitude because wasting time and money on an unprofitable actor would be irresponsible to the people she's now supporting.
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Their Finest / int_e545d293	type	Narm
Their Finest / int_e545d293	comment	Narm: In-Universe with the propaganda film shown at the start, a real movie made about women working in a bullet factory. The audience laughs at it, which is why Roger Swain decides they need a woman to write women.
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Their Finest / int_edc96065	type	Mister Muffykins
Their Finest / int_edc96065	comment	Mister Muffykins: Sammy absolutely spoils his bull terrier. Sophie, when she inherits the dog, disciplines it properly—much as she begins to discipline Halliard.
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Their Finest / int_f19e8a55	type	Bad "Bad Acting"
Their Finest / int_f19e8a55	comment	Bad "Bad Acting": Carl Lundbeck. On the first day shooting him, he recites his lines awkwardly, stands stiff as a board, and turns to smile at the camera when he's done... telling "Johnny" that there's a sniper nearby. They resort to filming him as briefly as possible from the front and having him deliver most of his lines in voiceover later, with Lundbeck not facing the camera.
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Their Finest / int_f300ca44	type	Cliché Storm
Their Finest / int_f300ca44	comment	Cliché Storm: In-Universe. The film they're producing isn't at all subtle, being written specifically as propaganda to keep people from despairing and get the Americans in the war.
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Their Finest / int_f4231181	comment	Recycled Script: The government films Catrin writes In-Universe are an example. The scripts are identical, but with with the actors obscuring their mouths so the appropriate words can be dubbed in (e.g. one film recommending growing carrots in a victory garden but saying something else entirely in another).
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Their Finest / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: One of Johnny's heroic acts in the film is saving a dog from a Nazi sniper.
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