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Describe '''''Men
''Men with Brooms'' is a [[Romantic Comedy]] movie starring [[Paul Gross]] and [[Leslie Nielsen]], and seemingly half of the cast of ''[[Due South]]''. Chris Cutter, once a local Curling legend until he left town without explanation (not to mention leaving his fiancee at the altar), comes back home for his curling coach's funeral. His curling coach's main wish, according to his will, is for Cutter to bring the old team back together to try and win the Golden Broom, the Curling
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* [[Alcoholic Parent]]: Amy, although when the movie takes place, she is going to [[Tropaholics Anonymous|AA meetings]].
* [[
* [[Brick Joke]]: {{spoiler|The Loan shark}}
* [[Calvin Ball]]: While Curling is a very real sport, the version shown in the movie evidently includes rules for such unlikely situations as {{spoiler|the ashes of a dead man}} landing on the button.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]: Parts of this movie play like a love letter to producer-and-star Paul Gross's home country.
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Lennox, who even bothered to [[Lampshade]] it.
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Gordon Cutter, Strombeck to a lesser degree.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "Let me tell you about vibrators--" *[[Tap on the Head|WHANG]]*
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* [[The Ditz]]: Lennox's "rent-a-girlfriend", and a male example in the form of Strombeck.
* [[The Dutiful Son|The Dutiful Daughter]]: Amy helped her father recover the Magellan Stones while her sister Julie went to school and eventually became an astronaut.
* [[Eagle Land]]: Alexander ''[[
* [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes]]: The movie opens with a bagpipe tune that ends up being a funeral dirge.
* [[Expy]]: The American Space Agency, filling in for NASA.
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** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Gordon Cutter, also the [[Eccentric Mentor]].
* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: A less-than thirty second scene that crams about five or ten different mishaps in while introducing Neil Bucyk. What should be [[A Simple Plan|a straightforward cremation]] goes horribly (and hilariously) awry when:
** The
** causing the recording of [[Amazing Freaking Grace]] to play in reverse,
** along with causing the coffin to start moving ''away'' from the oven and towards the end of the belt.
** They try to keep the coffin from falling off the end, only for it to tip over onto its end, the lid popping open leading to
** Coach Foley's body almost falling out,
** only to be caught by Neil grabbing the Coach by the face and throwing him ''back'' in the coffin,
** only for the belt to start moving the ''right'' direction,
** Neil's coat to get caught in the lid of the coffin when it slams shut,
** Dragging him onto the
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: a variation: Both sisters are The Smart Sister; one happens to be the Prodigal Daughter (went to college, joined [[Expy|The American Space Agency]], became an astronaut) while the other is [[The Dutiful Son|The Dutiful Daughter]], who stayed home with the family and cared for their father. Also, [[Triang Relations|both are romantic interests]] for Chris Cutter.
* [[Graceful Loser]]:
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: If you've ever been a fan of ''[[Due South]]'', you'll recognize probably half of the cast of this film, not to mention the late [[Leslie Nielsen]].
** George Buza, playing the loan shark, has made a career of such roles in Canadian film and television.
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Joanne, the "[[Insistent Terminology|Rent-A-Girlfriend]]", though Lennox never seems to actually do the things that one traditionally does with a prostitute, though she could just be the type of escort where sex isn't part of the deal.
* [[Hot Mom]]: Amy
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Linda Bucyk, who spends much of the movie cheating on her husband. Though it is strongly indicated at the end of the film that he's leaving her, it has less to do with the affair and more to do with her general abusiveness (and his own developing relationship with [[The Ditz|Joanne]])
* [[Les Yay]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] by Amy when Julie was trying to have a heart-to-heart with her about Chris. [[Dude, Not Funny|Julie asks Amy why
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Magellan Stones, having been dumped into the lake by Chris Cutter before he skipped town in the [[Backstory]], are several types:
** Mineral [[MacGuffin]]: Well, they ''are'' basically polished stones with handles attached
** [[I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin]]: Donald Foley dies immediately after retrieving the last of the stones. His will states that his ashes are to be placed in the last Magellan Stone, his old curling team reformed, and for them to take the stones and make another attempt to win the Golden Broom.
* [[Membership Token]]: The matching beaver tattoos on all four guys
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: The first team they play against, made up of octogenarians.
* [[Obi-Wan Moment]]: Neil Bucyk has one, while being dragged down a conveyor belt towards a cremation fire. [[Subverted]] in that he escapes unscathed, some time after the cut to the next scene.
** Neil in general seems obsessed with death, possibly a mix of his line of work (mortician) and his less-than-warm marriage.
* [[Off the Wagon]]: [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Amy]], after {{spoiler|
** Given her kid's [[Wise Beyond Their Years|nonchalant and blunt reaction]] to his mom's condition, it's implied that this happens to her fairly often. But then, he could also have been familiar with her being drunk from before she started going to AA meetings.
* [[Regional Riff]]: Scottish bagpipes for Canada. Appropriate, since the movie centers around a sport that originated in Scotland.
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* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Pretty much the entire plot of the film is the result of Donald Foley guilt-tripping his old curling team into reuniting after he dies.
* [[There Was a Door]]: Lennox, followed by his angry loan-shark, enters Cutter's motel room directly through the wall, much to Cutter's confusion.
* [[Training
* [[Triang Relations]]: Chris, Julie, and Amy, with Chris being the focus. Starts as a Type 4, until Julie points out to Amy that, strictly speaking, there ''is'' no triangle since Chris left her years previously and she's grown to pretty much hate him [[Tsundere|despite their one-night-stand hookup.]]
* [[Tropaholics Anonymous]]: Amy, a recovering alcoholic, goes to AA meetings at least once in the film. This mostly gives her a chance to monologue about her problems in a context where it makes sense to do so.
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* [[Word Salad Philosophy]]: When the team is drunkenly rambling along about Mozart and Einstein, while Amy, [[Only Sane Man|the one sober person present]], just quietly sits back listening with an amused look on her face.
* [[Worthy Adversary]]: Chris makes an amazing, almost impossible shot which would put his team in position to win, but his teammate accidentally brushed the stone with his foot after releasing it, meaning the entire shot is invalid... [[What You Are in the Dark|as long as he reports it]]. He does, and [[Eagle Land|Yount]] tells the referee to set the stones up the way they were before and let Chris try again.
▲* [[You Fail Law Forever]]: [[Lampshaded]] and [[Averted]] at the reading of Donald Foley's will. The lawyer admits that there really ''isn't'' any way his requests regarding the team and the stone could be considered legally binding; everybody goes along with it out of consideration for the deceased.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: [[Averted]]. Nothing seems to happen as a result Neil's developing relationship with Joanne, though that could have something to do with the fact that his wife is secretly having an affair with his assistant.
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