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** Sid, who finds Matt's mother-in-law's dementia quite hilarious, and gets a punch in the face for the trouble. He's also not malicious, however -- just very, ''very'' stupid.
* [[Converse With the Unconscious]]: Matt encourages lots of people to visit and speak to Elizabeth while she is in the hospital, and before bringing in the kids he has one last fight with her. Played with in that {{spoiler|Matt already knows for some time that Elizabeth's condition will not improve, and in fact will only decline as time passes, so her death is inevitable. He still publicly speaks in hopeful terms for most of the movie, mostly to avoid awkward conversations}}.
* [[Dude, Not Funny]]: In-Universe example. Sid laughs uncontrollably at Elizabeth's mother's dementia. Her father eventually punches him in the face.
* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: Sid tells Matt not to use retarded in a derogatory fashioned. He claims to have a mentally-challenged brother (although he was lying) but he's still right.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Matt is a workaholic who can't connect with his kids; Elizabeth, before her accident, cheated on Matt, was a self-absorbed adrenaline junkie (and was implied to have a lot of other problems as well); Alex drinks, used to do drugs and [[Really Gets Around|really get around]], and has issues believing her parents, or at least her mother, don't care about her; and Scottie is involved in (at least mild) cyberbullying, has a friend who throws parties involving porn videos, and shows pictures of her mother (in a coma) to her class.
* [[Good Adultery, Bad Adultery]]: Played with; Matt angrily shouts down one of his wife's friends when she tries to justify the affair with the "she was lonely" excuse, and while it's suggested she did have sympathetic motives to some degree it's also made clear that her actions were still selfish and damaging to her family.
* [[Idle Rich]]: Matt and his family are descended from the first white land owners of Hawaii. While Matt has left almost all of his money in a trust, the rest of his family are deep in debt and are dead set on selling the rest of the land to pay off their debts. By the end {{spoiler|Matt has [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|changed his mind]]}}.
* [[Match Cut]]: Shots of the back of George Clooney's head at the big family meeting and at his wife's sickbed.
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