Lost and Delirious
Lost and Delirious is a film about a young, naïve heterosexual girl named Mary or "Mouse" (Mischa Barton) who moves in to boarding school with a couple of Schoolgirl Lesbians who are involved in an intimate relationship. The story follows Mouse's attempts to understand their relationship and adult sexuality and also follows the struggles Paulie (Piper Perabo) and Tori (Jessica Paré) have as a lesbian couple at an all-girls private school. When Tori's little sister catches them together, Tori throws herself into a relationship with a guy and Paulie desperately tries to win her back.
Based (with some serious adaptations) on Canadian author Susan Swan's novel The Wives of Bath.
Tropes used in Lost and Delirious include:
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Paulie's change in dress is a clear parallel to her counterpart's other identity as Lewis in "The Wives of Bath", as are many of her other actions and their results.
- A Date with Rosie Palms: Mouse does it in the book.
- All Men Are Perverts: Heavily implied with Jake and his friend.
- Boarding School: Mouse, Tori, and Paulie attend one. In the book, it was more of a Boarding School of Horrors, but the film version is fairly ordinary.
- Canada, Eh?: Where the film is set, presumably, according to the reference to McGill University and several characters' accents.
- Darker and Edgier: Averted; the book on which the film is based is much more disturbing.
- Driven to Suicide: Paulie
- The Film of the Book: see above.
- Gayngst
- Girls Love: Paulie and Tori.
- If It's You It's Okay: Paulie claims that she and Tori are not lesbians but are simply in love with each other.
- Innocent Bystander: Tori.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Tori, Paulie to a lesser extent especially when she tries to become more masculine to get Tori back.
- Love Triangle: Paulie/Tori/Jake.
- No Bisexuals: Hard to tell. It is never explicitly stated whether or not Tori enjoys her relationship with Jake.
- One-Gender School: The school they all attend.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: several peripheral characters from the book were removed, for example.
- Schoolgirl Lesbians: Paulie and Tori.
- Secret Relationship: What Paulie and Tori have in the beginning.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: Paulie and Tori.
- Wall-Bang Her: Tree. Tree bang.