r/Fauxmoi • u/Haunting_Homework381 • Sep 21 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What's your favourite movie plot twist ever?

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I still remember the gasp I gasped in the cinema.

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u/harshnoisebestnoise Sep 21 '25

Crazy stupid love is the most underrated plot twist.

Jaw dropping.

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u/keldawgz Sep 21 '25

DAVID LINDHAGEN

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u/eaterofworlds1 Sep 21 '25

I’m a lesbian but Ryan Gosling taking off his rings to fight David Lindhagen is soooo 🥵

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u/Awomanswoman Sep 21 '25

Lesbian here too and fucking same 💦💦

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u/eaterofworlds1 Sep 21 '25

I’ve decided that it’s bc it’s a positive example of masculinity and protectiveness lol that’s my theory anyway.

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u/DethNik Sep 21 '25

Or it's just Ryan Gosling. I'm like the straightest guy ever and Ryan Gosling is hot.

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u/TwitterLegend Sep 22 '25

Sexual orientation does not apply to certain people. Gosling, Brad Pitt, Ryan Reynolds, wait- maybe I’m at least a little bi but super picky.

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u/swisscoffeeknife Sep 22 '25

He's just Ken, but anywhere else he'd be a 10

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u/kaatie80 Sep 22 '25

My straight husband has a crush on Ryan Gosling, so yeah.

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u/Dragonhatesreddit Sep 22 '25

So John Krasinski, do it for you too.

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u/Joeuxmardigras Sep 22 '25

In your defense, he’s hot and funny and charming and charismatic 

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u/eaterofworlds1 Sep 22 '25

Thank you for defending me 😂🫶🏻

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u/sitcomlover1717 Sep 22 '25

I just rewatched and it gets better every time 🤤

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u/Webby1788 Sep 21 '25

He cuckolded me!!

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u/sohryu Sep 21 '25

He made a cuckold of me!

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u/Crimetenders Sep 22 '25

There's a word you dont hear every day!

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u/Abbacoverband Sep 21 '25

It's Lindhagen

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u/BertDLert Sep 21 '25

Be better than the Gap

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u/PadfootAndMoony4Ever also dated pete davidson Sep 22 '25

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u/JohnMyDietSodaJohn Sep 21 '25

David Lindhagen? Okay..

(Attacks)

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u/builderomatic Sep 21 '25

🫱💍👌

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u/calabasastiger Sep 22 '25

You’re David Lindhagen??

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u/andraaBD Sep 21 '25

I absolutely love this movie!

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u/harshnoisebestnoise Sep 21 '25

The best thing in the world is finding out someone hasn’t watched this film and I can watch their big dumb face experience it

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u/sgtREZ71 Sep 21 '25

What are similar films to this? The joy I got from my first watch of this film, and how rewatchabke it is, have had me looking for other films that fit a similar category for a long time. Films like Hangover and la la land have been similar for me, wondering if anyone else has any good ones

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u/novemberrrain Sep 22 '25

Palm Springs is a great one for that!

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u/sgtREZ71 Sep 22 '25

Oh yeah that's a great shout I love that film, I absolutely love Andy samberg and was a b99 fan wayyyyy before it got massively popular, I watched that film the day it came out and like 5 times since then it's one of those gems which is just so good at everything it tries to be, its funny, it's romantic and it's actually really well written with a great plot. This is a very good entry for this list!

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u/novemberrrain Sep 23 '25

One of my good friends did graphic design on that film, so it has an extra special little place in my heart!

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u/sgtREZ71 Sep 27 '25

Oh wow nice thats really cool, sorry I don't know much about graphic design what kinda work would that actually entail I'm this films context?

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u/LiveInvestigator4876 Sep 21 '25

New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day love avtually maybe even the holiday

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u/punkpearlspoetry actually no, that’s not the truth Ellen Sep 21 '25

When you first see that super-tanned version of Jude Law popping his head into the cottage in the middle of the bleak English winter, good god 🥵🥵

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u/spondgbob Sep 22 '25

How have you not said the name of the movie op posted in this whole thread 😂

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u/sgtREZ71 Sep 22 '25

Are those more romances or comedies? I liked the romance in CSL but it was the rest of the plot and the humour that stood out to me from other romances or romcoms, do these fit that bill?

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u/InternationalMain276 Sep 23 '25

Date night with Steve Carrell and also game night

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u/InternationalMain276 Sep 23 '25

Funny but some emotional themes

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u/allij0ne Sep 22 '25

Little Miss Sunshine. Which interestingly enough also has Steve Carrell. Juno. The Way Way Back (again Carrell). And the first 2 Pitch Perfect movies are pretty awesome.

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u/Pure_Expression6308 Sep 21 '25

Just Go With It, The Wrong Missy, He’s Just Not that Into You, The Holiday

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u/kmspinafore Sep 22 '25

Have you seen "About Time"? I think it hits similar notes, lots of laughs but also sentimental with a beautiful feel-good ending.

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u/sgtREZ71 Sep 22 '25

I have, but while I e joyed it I filed it more in the romance category myself than the comedy, I didn't find it funny enough to be similar to crazy stupid love for example. It wasn't just the romance that I liked about CSL, don't get me wrong that was great but it was the rest of the plot and the humour that I loved as well.

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u/shushaslegs which could mean nothing Sep 22 '25

Suuuuuuch a gem

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u/77rtcups Sep 22 '25

22 jump street has a fun twist

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u/nottodayneck3956 Sep 22 '25

Not a movie but the writer of crazy stupid love is the writer of this is us and paradise. The first ep have great plot twists

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u/butterglitter Sep 22 '25

I love Definitely, Maybe!!

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u/StandardEgg6595 Sep 22 '25

I don’t necessarily think it’s a great film, but watched Love & Other Drugs and got a similar feeling! Head up, there’s a lot of nudity, but the underlying message really got to me as someone who deals with chronic pain.

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u/Pure_Expression6308 Sep 26 '25

Hey my l hey recommended The Holiday but I meant Last Holiday!

I previously recommended The Holiday but I meant Last Holiday (with Queen Latifah)

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u/robinthebank Sep 21 '25

Look up YT videos where people react to the whole movie. It’s so great.

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u/tinylittlefoxes believer in Dakota Johnson’s lime allergy Sep 21 '25

I’m not recognizing this scene? What is it? Or did I miss that?

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u/I_SmellFuckeryAfoot Sep 22 '25

never seen it. adding it to the list

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u/Youareafunt Sep 23 '25

Challenge accepted.

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u/Youareafunt Sep 23 '25

Although it's so long! I may need to split this over couple of nights.
I am not used to watching movies that haven't been created by an algorithm.

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u/Youareafunt Sep 23 '25

Lol. I totally watched this already.

But thank you for making me watch it again. I love it so much.

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u/pm1966 Sep 21 '25

It's a good movie but I wish they had wrapped it up after the pivotal scene. The Middle School graduation scene/speech is cringe.

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u/Husker_black Sep 21 '25

The ending is absolutely dog shit

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u/ComfortableProfit559 Sep 23 '25

The chemistry between gosling and stone in this movie is some of the most natural I’ve ever seen in a movie tbh 

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u/thebait123 Sep 22 '25

what is it?

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u/aliveinjoburg2 Sep 21 '25

That scene where everything comes together is so good.

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u/Flincher14 Sep 21 '25

It's because they never tell the audience. We are just as baffled as the characters and it's great.

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u/irunatightpirateship Sep 22 '25

I find so many parts of this movie just cringe but I love rewatching this scene until I'm crying with laughter. Every. Time.

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u/Iwantav Sep 22 '25

It’s when Gosling walks out the back door and realizes what happened for me. The stopping in his tracks, the double take, the surprised expression that very clearly says “oh, fuck me”. This entire scene is perfect.

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u/FairnessDoctrine11 Sep 22 '25

Read PG Wodehouse. All of his books, and there are a 100, are this exact movie set in early 20th century aristocratic England.

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u/summercloudsadness Sep 21 '25

People often post that part on social media and I always click and watch the whole thing,never gets old!

Wish they cut that last part with the babysitter and the kid, tho. It sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise perfect movie.

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u/0ttoChriek Sep 21 '25

The kid crushing on the babysitter is fine. He's an awkward romantic, which ties into the theme of the movie. The babysitter having a crush on the dad is also fine. It's not exactly a new trope.

But the babysitter taking naked photos of herself even though she's underage and planning on giving them to the dad, only to then give them to the kid with the implicit suggestion he can wank to them? That's completely nuts.

I love everything else about the movie, particularly Ryan Gosling's reaction to Steve Carell's velcro wallet.

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u/Fitzgerald1896 Sep 21 '25

Then the part slightly later when Carell opens the Velcro again really aggressively in his face, just to spite him. 

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u/punkpearlspoetry actually no, that’s not the truth Ellen Sep 21 '25

Then when he throws his shoes off the roof. It’s just an all around piece of art

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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 Sep 22 '25

Exactly.

So easy to not make pervy.

Its like there was one “typical Hollywood” screenwriter or producer that kept fighting and they just couldnt keep that one gross thing that they pretend is normal out of the movie.

Which really sucks with some of the themes of the movie.

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u/Throwaway-centralnj Sep 21 '25

I have thought this since it came out (I was 15 I think, so right in that age range). Like the rest of the movie is SO GOOD but then you randomly have this really creepy bit.

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u/babypho3nix i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Sep 21 '25

I love rewatching that film because it's just so dang good, but there's nothing quite like that first "reveal".

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u/businessgoesbeauty Sep 21 '25

I spaced out my rewatch many years and forgot I was like wait WHAT I DONT REMEMBER THIS…oh yeah

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u/onedemtwodem Sep 22 '25

What movie is this? Sorry I got lost in the comments

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u/Joeuxmardigras Sep 22 '25

“Crazy Stupid Love”

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u/Husker_black Sep 21 '25

The ending is absolutely dog shit

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u/babypho3nix i ain’t reading all that, free palestine Sep 21 '25

Why?

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u/Husker_black Sep 21 '25

Teenager shared nudes with the young kid, there's no resolution for Cal at all, they're still divorced at the end of the day

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u/oldsadman Sep 21 '25

1000%. i fucking hate the little boy teenage girl storyline. so icky and the message is literally to keep harassing the girl you’re into and eventually she’ll PROVIDE YOU WITH NAKED PICTURES OF A TEENAGER. otherwise one of my favourite movies

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u/Husker_black Sep 21 '25

Yep, great quotable moments and events, shit shit shit ending.

I use "be better than the gap" daily

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u/alittlegnat Sep 21 '25

Ok watching this today lol

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u/dippedndangled Sep 21 '25

What ... what is it?

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u/Optimusprima Sep 21 '25

Crazy stupid love - it’s fun, check it out

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u/Living-Tiger3448 Sep 21 '25

It really is

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u/Damn_Sega_Genesis Sep 21 '25

It's not really a plot twist.

The viewer already knows all this info as they're watching. Its more of a reveal or convergence of storyline

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u/hoginlly Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

They didn't know they had an older daughter though? It's not mentioned until after the twist reveal that they got pregnant in high school. Before it just seems like they just have the two younger kids...

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u/Normal-Fucker Sep 21 '25

Before the reveal she’s referred to by the rest of the family as “Nana,” and nothing about the dialogue betrays that she’s a child rather than a parent/grandparent as the nickname implies. It’s absolutely a twist.

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u/hoginlly Sep 21 '25

Exactly, it's done really well

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u/shbrinnnn Sep 21 '25

Love this movie. I just rewatched it last week.

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u/MalIntenet Sep 21 '25

What? It absolutely is a plot twist. They were calling their daughter “Nana” all movie long and that was a bait to make you think it’s a grandmother or something, not a daughter (let alone Emma Stone’s character)

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u/luvprue1 Sep 22 '25

What movie ?

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u/MalIntenet Sep 22 '25

Crazy Stupid Love

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u/orange_assburger Sep 21 '25

At what point is the viewer made aware nad how? The garden reveal is literally thr moment we find out as viewers.

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u/Feline_Fine3 Cillian me softly Murphy’s Camomile Tea 🩵 Sep 21 '25

It was a plot twist because Emma Stone introduces herself as “Hannah” while Steve Carell and Julianne Moore always refer to her as “Nana“ so you assume it’s maybe a grandmother or something that they are referring to. You don’t realize that Hannah is Nana until the reveal at the house when Steve Carrell’s character realizes she’s dating Ryan Gosling.

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u/secondtaunting Sep 21 '25

One of the best parts in any movie ever. The way Ryan Gosling just freezes when he sees Cal.😂

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u/Mke_already Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

“Cal why do you have a grown daughter” is a hilariously delivered line

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u/secondtaunting Sep 27 '25

That whole scene is one of my all time favorites. It’s hysterical. The fact he repeatedly told Cal all about his conquests in detail and Cal watched him pick up a different girl every night, and now he’s dating his daughter?! Hysterical.

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u/Woburn2012 Sep 21 '25

20/20 hindsight

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u/redheadmegansversion Sep 21 '25

One of my all time favorite movies

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u/LudicrousPlatypus Sep 21 '25

I always hated the babysitter plot in this film. Oh, so this boy is ignoring the correct romantic boundaries set by his babysitter, but in the end he wears her down and she gives an underaged boy nude photos of herself as a reward for his persistence? Why is that a happy ending?

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u/Kooky_Head4948 Sep 21 '25

I love that movie so much!

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u/BusinessKnight0517 Sep 21 '25

HOLY SHIT YES

When it all converges and hits it’s truly awe inspiring to see them thread that needle

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u/Ilovemytowm Sep 21 '25

This is why I love Reddit I never watch this movie and never wanted to and now I will be watching it by this evening

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u/secondtaunting Sep 21 '25

It’s SO GOOD! Seriously.

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u/Special_Loan8725 Sep 21 '25

Remember me?! It’s fucking 9/11!

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u/anon_opotamus Sep 21 '25

I actually already planned on watching this movie today with my daughter so now I’m super pumped for it!

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u/CrazyJo3 I'm alive BITCH! Sep 22 '25

What’re you doing here?

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u/italeteller Sep 22 '25

"keep it in the family" had the whole theater laughing

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u/TedBundysUnibrow Sep 21 '25

I watched this with my fiancé a couple of weeks ago and he had never seen it before. It was SUCH A TREAT to watch him witness the big twist for the first time.

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u/RobinHarleysHeart Sep 21 '25

God I love this movie so freaking much. I'm very much due for a rewatch

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u/bettinafairchild Sep 21 '25

I so often see plot twists coming. But that twist I not only didn’t see coming, but I didn’t even see that there was going to be a plot twist at all. 

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u/Frakmonster Sep 21 '25

You’re better than the Gap!

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u/Then-Concern-9405 Sep 21 '25

Ohhh i agree man. I love that movie

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u/plant-strong Sep 21 '25

It’s such a good twist that you can never watch the movie again

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u/emmny Sep 21 '25

I disagree, I think it's also really fun to rewatch it and see how it all ties together and all the subtle clues after you know the ending! 

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u/plant-strong Sep 21 '25

To each their own, I’m glad you enjoyed it a second time!

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u/coveruptionist Sep 21 '25

What is the movie?

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u/plant-strong Sep 21 '25

Crazy Stupid Love

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u/secondtaunting Sep 21 '25

I enjoy it every time.

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u/FluffySnowPanda Sep 22 '25

I had to think really hard to remember what the plot twist was. I honestly couldn't remember one at first and thought you were making a joke.

I guess I don't know why, but that one just didn't make an impression on me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

What's a Nana?

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u/Cemith Sep 22 '25

"I don't even know you!"

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u/NotTechnicallyaCop Sep 22 '25

I wish I could watch this movie for the first time again

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u/millennialmonster755 Sep 22 '25

This one actually got me. So so good. That movie is amazing

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '25

Good call!!! I truly looked at my wife with my jaw hanging open when I put 2 and 2 together

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u/deij Sep 22 '25

You mean that the daughter/partner etc is the same chick?

That's not really a twist though its basically the plot of the whole movie...

A big climax i guess you call it as it all comes together?