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27 Dresses

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27 Dresses is a Romantic Comedy, released in 2008, starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden.The story follows Jane Nichols (Heigl), a young single woman who's in love with her boss George (Edward Burns) but doesn't have the courage to tell him. A notorious doormat, she has been a bridesmaid in 27 different weddings, usually shouldering much of the responsibility for planning the weddings as well. We're introduced to Jane the same night she meets Kevin Doyle (Marsden), a cynical young man who covers weddings for the local paper (though Jane is unaware of this). He's intrigued by the fact that she seems to be in two different weddings on the same night. Through a bizarre set of circumstances, the two share a taxi ride home, and Jane accidentally leaves her day planner behind. Kevin finds it and discovers her bridesmaid duties are a regular phenomenon.Soon after, Jane's spoiled and vain younger sister Tess (Malin Akerman), comes home to visit. She meets George and falls in love with him, in spite of the fact that they are complete opposites. Tess continually lies to George to convince him that they're soulmates, much to Jane's dismay. Meanwhile, Kevin has been using Jane's calendar to find her and continually hound her for a date. Unfortunately, he's got an ulterior motive: he is planning to write a story on the "perpetual bridesmaid", a piece that he believes will further his career.After a very short courtship, George proposes to Tess, who of course assumes that Jane will plan everything for their wedding to be held in several weeks. Jane's emotional state deteriorates rapidly, while Tess's diva behavior increases dramatically. On top of that, Jane learns that Kevin is actually a wedding journalist who plans to cover George and Tess's wedding (although she's still unaware of the perpetual bridesmaid article he plans to write). Kevin eventually deduces that Jane is in love with George, and pushes her to stand up for herself and what she wants. At the same time he asks his editor to hold the article about Jane. He is beginning to realize that there's more to her than he first thought, and the article doesn't portray her in a flattering light. His editor says she'll hold the story, but unbeknownst to Kevin, goes back on her word and publishes it anyway.While running an errand, Jane and Kevin get stuck overnight due to weather, and realize they have feelings for each other, which they act on. But the following morning, Jane sees the article. She's understandably humiliated, and leaves him. Tess is furious with her for allowing herself to be manipulated, which furthers her depression. But when Jane finds out that Tess has cut up their mother's wedding dress (which she had planned to wear to her own wedding), she comes to her senses and realizes that George needs to know the truth. At the rehearsal dinner that night, Jane gives Tess one more chance to come clean. She refuses, so Jane proceeds to humiliate Tess during her speech with a slideshow that vividly demonstrates the lies Tess has fed George. The wedding is called off.Eventually the girls' father forces them to see each other and work out their differences. Tess learns that she needs to be less selfish and more compassionate before she deserves a guy like George. Jane realizes that Kevin was right, and she needs to learn to take care of others without completely ignoring herself. Later that evening George invites Jane to a charity event, as he needs a date. She meets him at the office, where she finally confesses her feelings for him. He kisses her, but they both realize they have zero chemistry. Jane realizes Kevin is actually the right guy for her, and she ends up with him instead.
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Sexy Shirt Switch: Subdued example. Casey shows up to work on Monday in a borrowed groomsman's outfit, pointing out that she can't wear her bridesmaid's dress to work after a two day walk of shame.
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I Miss Mom/Missing Mom: Even though they were quite young when their mother passed away (Jane was eight and Tess was several years younger), her loss is implied to be a huge factor in Jane's personality, a cause of sadness in the family (especially for their father), and a significant contributor to several plot points.
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Jane's Promotion to Parent averted this when they were young, but said war is declared and played straight during the movie's events.
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Villain Ball: Tess weaves an elaborate web of lies to make George believe that she's a healthy-living, outdoorsy animal loving domestic goddess. This works while they're dating and engaged, but what were her plans for after the wedding? Either she aims to change her lifestyle (which seems quite unlikely, since she'd constantly be doing things she hates) or to continue lying to George, which is bound to blow up in her face sooner or later. Held by Kevin's editor, of all people. After Kevin begins to realize that he's treated Jane badly in his "perpetual bridesmaid" article, he calls his editor and asks her to hold the piece for a week. She agrees... then goes behind his back and runs the story anyway. Absolutely no justification is ever given for this; as someone on the Headscratchers page points out, the entire thing ends up feeling like a highly-contrived way to create tension between Kevin and Jane. Furthermore—and also appearing on the Headscratchers page— publishing a story when an author has specifically requested it not appear opens the paper up to a big libel suit, something any editor worth their salt would know.
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No Sparks: Jane and George. They share a kiss twice, then realize the chemistry simply isn't there.
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Atomic F-Bomb: Jane becomes so pissed off about the fact that Kevin sent her flowers instead of George that she leaves the party temporarily to scream one in the hallway.
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Defrosting Ice Queen: A gender-flipped version with Kevin. He's given up on the whole idea of weddings (see Cynicism Catalyst above) and spends the first third of the movie either making fun of Jane or secretly plotting to exploit her story for a major article. However, as time passes and he discovers how much Jane loves weddings, he slowly starts to fall for her and remember his own passions.
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo: At first Kevin is interested in Jane but she rejects him because she loves George. After a falling out with Kevin and realizing she has no sparks with George, she realizes that she has feelings for Kevin and tracks him down to tell him how she feels.
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Unique Moment Ruined: A variation, in that the special moment's ruin comes long before the event itself can take place. After having been a bridesmaid at 27 different weddings, Jane has been planning to wear her late mother's wedding dress when she finally has her own wedding...only to discover that her sister Tess, whose wedding she's also planning, cut up the dress to make it more "modern." With the stress of planning the wedding, having to deal with Tess's Bridezilla tendencies, the fact that Tess is marrying Jane's boss and love interest George (and is telling him all sorts of lies to convince him they are soulmates), and having just found out that her other love interest Kevin has written an unflattering newspaper article about her perpetual bridesmaid duties, finding out about the dress proves to be more than Jane can take.
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Brilliant, but Lazy: Casey. She's a free-spirited and lazy Hard-Drinking Party Girl who Really Gets Around, and yet in an easily-missed line, it's revealed that she's an accountant.
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Fourth-Date Marriage
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Fourth-Date Marriage: Tess and George go from dating to engaged to wedding in an alarmingly short time. Jane and Kevin are a subverted example. They marry a year after they get engaged.
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Anguished Declaration of Love
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Anguished Declaration of Love: Jane couples George's with a "quitting my job" speech, then gives Kevin a real one minutes later.
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Kimono Is Traditional: One of Jane's bridesmaids dresses is a purple kimono that she wore at traditional Japanese wedding.
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Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Jane is the elder, responsible sister and her younger sister Tess is Foolish.
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Race for Your Love
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Race for Your Love: Jane uses a taxi and jumps a boat ramp in high heels during her race to get to Kevin at the end of the movie.
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Cynicism Catalyst
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Cynicism Catalyst: Kevin's cynicism regarding weddings is because he had his big fancy wedding planned, but then his bride left him for his roommate.
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Karaoke Bonding Scene: Variation where it's not technically karaoke (rather, a singalong that the main characters lead a dive bar in). Jane and Kevin, initially at odds, belt out "Bennie and the Jets" at said dive bar and become closer to each other.
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Meaningful Name: Jane is supposed to be your typical "plain Jane" type. It's a bit hard to swallow that you're supposed to find Katherine Heigl less attractive than Malin Akerman, though.
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I Gave My Word
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I Gave My Word: Jane claims that all twenty-seven of the brides she's helped over the years have promised to appear in her own wedding when the time comes...and sure enough, the final shot of the movie (when Jane is marrying Kevin) reveals every single one standing on a specially-built platform, each wearing the outfit that Jane herself wore in the corresponding ceremony.
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Pair the Spares: Jane's loose friend Casey and Kevin's girl-crazy co-worker Trent are implied to hook up at the end.
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Consummate Liar: Tess continuously lies and bullshits George about being a healthy-living, outdoorsy girl, much to Jane's chagrin. Naturally, this blows up in her face.
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Buxom Beauty Standard: Jane mentions an aunt used to joke about Jane having small breasts, which seems ridiculous now. What's even stranger is that it's Tess that brings this up, even though Jane is significantly bigger than her.
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Armor-Piercing Question: After Jane reveals the truth about Tess at the rehearsal dinner and destroys the wedding, Casey, of all people, approaches her and asks why she did it. Jane tries to defend herself by saying that someone had to reveal the truth, but Casey points out that all Jane really did was vent every bit of frustration she's ever felt all at once in a public setting, and that if she had done the right thing, she would feel better. Then comes the question: "Do you feel better?" The answer is a very hard "no."
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After having to endure Tess lying to George to win him over and her constant demands for their upcoming wedding, Jane finally snaps after Tess has the audacity to cut up their deceased mother's wedding dress (that Jane had been planning on wearing when she eventually got married) to make it more "modern". After chewing her out, Jane gives Tess an ultimatum.
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Broken Pedestal: Jane is horrified to learn that the deeply cynical Kevin (using a pen name) is the one who writes the wedding articles she reads.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: When it flashes forward to the present day, it shows Jane trying on a wedding dress and we're led to believe it's for her wedding day. However she gets a call and the camera pans out, showing she's actually being a wedding planner and bridesmaid and she was helping a friend find a dress that fits.
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Humiliation Conga: The speech and slideshow Jane delivers at Tess and George's rehearsal dinner is one that Jane herself deliberately sets up for Tess: the pictures are not only extremely unflattering, they reveal all of the lies that Tess has told to win George over, in front of an entire hall full of people.
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Sibling Yin-Yang
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Jane is smart, responsible, and selfless, while Tess is irresponsible, selfish, and carefree.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush: Downplayed with Kevin.
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Didn't Think This Through: Tess consistently lies to George, pretending to be a person she clearly isn't. This works in the short term when they barely know each other, but what did she expect was going to happen after they were married? She probably wouldn't have been able to constantly keep the act up even if Jane hadn't exposed her lies; if anything, Jane simply sped up the reveal and the marriage failing.
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Bouquet Toss: One of these gone wrong is how Kevin and Jane meet.
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Laser-Guided Karma
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Laser-Guided Karma: Tess earns herself two kinds of Laser Guided Karma thanks to her selfish, thoughtless behavior. First, the article that Kevin ends up writing about Jane does not skimp on telling everyone what a horrid bridezilla that Tess was the entire time he was writing the article. She flips out at Jane after finding out about it and doesn't offer even an iota of comfort to her knowing Kevin wrote an article about her life without her full permission. Second, Jane tells Tess to tell George the truth, but she refuses, so Jane then puts together a photo montage that proves all the lies Tess has told George to get him to like and marry her. Again, while the movie portrays it as a bad thing that Jane did, Jane gave Tess every chance to do the right thing and she didn't do it, so she was humiliated instead.
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Heel Realization
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Held by Kevin's editor, of all people. After Kevin begins to realize that he's treated Jane badly in his "perpetual bridesmaid" article, he calls his editor and asks her to hold the piece for a week. She agrees... then goes behind his back and runs the story anyway. Absolutely no justification is ever given for this; as someone on the Headscratchers page points out, the entire thing ends up feeling like a highly-contrived way to create tension between Kevin and Jane. Furthermore—and also appearing on the Headscratchers page— publishing a story when an author has specifically requested it not appear opens the paper up to a big libel suit, something any editor worth their salt would know.
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Test Kiss: Jane and George, after Jane finally confesses her feelings for him; they mutually decide there's no spark.
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Caught in the Rain
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Caught in the Rain: This is exactly how Jane and Kevin first hook up.
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Sibling Triangle: Both Jane and her sister Tess are attracted to George and it only gets worse when Tess gets engaged to him. Lampshades by Kevin in a complaint.
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It's All Junk
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It's All Junk: After Jane decides to stop being such a doormat and wasting her life waiting for George, she throws out all twenty-seven of the outfits she's gathered over the years, in a metaphor for cleansing her life of her old habits.
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Mood Whiplash: A gradual variation. Jane's slideshow for Tess and George at the rehearsal dinner starts out as a laughable show of how different the two may be (young George loving animals while young Tess flippantly holds a cat upside down). But as it progresses, it becomes more and more clear this is a passive aggressive way of exposing how dishonest Tess has been to George about who she is. And the laughter simply dries up.
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Hereditary Wedding Dress
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Hereditary Wedding Dress: Jane snaps after her sister Tess cuts up their deceased mother's wedding dress (that Jane had been planning on wearing when she eventually got married) to make it more "modern" for her own wedding. It makes her reach a Rage Breaking Point and give Tess a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
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Deadpan Snarker: Kevin. Also Jane.
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Extreme Doormat: Jane, of course.
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Plucky Comic Relief: Casey. She does give Jane some much needed advice more than once in the story, though.
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Big Applesauce: Set in New York, with the wedding to be held in Central Park.
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Really Gets Around: Casey, unashamedly so. It's also implied of Tess before meeting George.
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I Have No Son!: A sibling example. After Jane discovers that Tess had cut up their mother's wedding dress to make more appealing, Jane tells her she's not her sister anymore for what she done and storms out.
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Rage Breaking Point: Jane's personality and upbringing are the reasons she can stay so calm throughout the whole movie, even when she's grinding her teeth to respond, but when she finds out that Tess cut up their deceased mother's wedding dress to make it more "modern", she finally cracks.
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Freudian Excuse: When Jane was a child, her cousin was in a panic because something went wrong with her wedding dress just before she had to walk down the aisle. Little Jane devised a solution, and her cousin not only praised her effusively, but even called her the wedding's hero. Jane herself explains that this was the moment that she realized she had a knack for wedding planning, and that she loved the joy her help could bring to others.
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Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Played for Laughs when Casey sees Jane is distractedly mooning over George and she slaps her across the face to bring some sense back into her.
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What the Hell, Hero?: Casey calls out Jane on publicly taking revenge on Tess by showing the slideshow exposing her. She even asks if getting her revenge has made her satisfied. Understandably, Jane is furious when she finds out Kevin lied about the article being about Tess when it's really about her and slaps the shit out of him when she sees the article in the paper. At first, Kevin tries to make excuses, but the slap sets him straight. He later comes to the rehearsal dinner to try and be supportive, but also to make a genuine apology for what he's done.
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Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: Part of Jane's speech to Kevin.
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Mondegreen Gag: Occurs after Kevin and Jane get wasted in a bar and both demonstrate that they have no idea what the real lyrics are to "Bennie and the Jets". But that doesn't stop them from singing and dancing to it anyway.
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Goth: Gina, the secretary at Jane and Casey's job. Even her wedding is gothic.
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Moment Killer: Kevin. Jane's overreaction is what makes him realize she has feelings for George.
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A Minor Kidroduction: The movie starts with Jane and Tess at their first wedding as kids. They see the bride in the bathroom with her dress ripped, so Jane takes Tess's hair ribbon to fix it. The bride then asks Jane to hold her train, showing the first time with her fate as a bridesmaid.
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Promotion to Parent: Jane.
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Never Trust a Title: A very, very minor example. Technically speaking, Jane didn't wear twenty-seven dresses in twenty-seven weddings...for one, the men apparently wore dresses and the women wore tuxes. The bride in question is among the twenty-seven in the end, and sure enough, she's wearing a tux; the tux is also shown in Jane's montage of trying on her collection of wedding outfits. It's a minor point, though, and let's face it, "26 Dresses and 1 Tuxedo" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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Team Mom
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Team Mom: Jane is a deconstruction of this.
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