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He's stuffy. She's untamed. It's true love.
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[[British Stuffiness|Mr. Stuffy]] is in a rut: Life is boring because he plays by the rules. Along comes this [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|wild and crazy woman to show him how to live life to its fullest]], and she just might [[An Aesop|learn a few things along the way]], too.
Though the most common form of this trope is from male creators who idealize femininity as a saving force, it could be [[Gender Flip
They could be [[Queer As Tropes|LGBT]], as well (e.g. a [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Seme]] with a [[Keet]] [[Uke]], [[Gravitation|mentioning no names]]).
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* ''[[Film/Angel A|Angel A]]''
* ''[[Bright Star]]'' - John Keats is man back in the [[Older Than They Think|1800s]] who is hidebound by convention, emotionally closed-off, undaring, and believes himself to be a failed poet. But along comes his muse, Fanny Brawne. She's a young, vibrant, fashionable, fiery, flirty, independent-minded, outspoken, strong-willed [[Dances and Balls|party girl]] who inspires him to write a sonnet that shares a name with the film's title. Will she challenge him and motivate him to new heights and help him achieve success that lasts until the 21st century? Well, it is based on a true story, so take a wild guess.
* ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]''
** Ditto for ''[[My Man Godfrey]]''.
* ''[[Crazy Beautiful]]''
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* Gender-reversed in ''[[The Sure Thing]]''.
* On ''[[Film/Life As We Know It|Life As We Know It]]'', it's gender flipped. Holly is an uptight bakery owner, and Messer is a free-wheeling player.
* ''[[Up]]'' starts out with a version of this between 10-year-olds. It's very
* ''[[Love Letters]]'' is a made-for-TV film directed by Stanley Donen, starring Laura Linney as Melissa Gardner Cobb and Steven Weber as Andrew Ladd. She is a freewheeling artist with plenty of sexual partners and a love of booze and has had a bad reputation since high school. He's a stalwart, stuffy Republican politician. Their letters to each other are his sail and her anchor, but she threatens to moon his respectable peers if his letters get too uniform.
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