![]() ![]() Wangst: Young Charlie’s melodramatic speech about how her family is losing their souls to boredom is clearly meant to be seen as this.Waif-Fu: She survives her uncle's attempts to kill her, even in the climax where he is manhandling her, a petite teenage girl, but then she gets the upper hand and he meets his maker.Two First Names: Her surname "Newton" is also occasionally used as a first name.Tranquil Fury: When Charlie tells Uncle Charlie she'll kill him herself if he doesn’t leave her family alone.Small Town Boredom: She has already graduated from high school and is bored out of her mind at home and on what to do with her life she receives the call too soon after her uncle arrives in town.Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Her introduction scene has her bewailing the boredom her family has sunken into and hopes her Uncle Charlie will change that.The events of the movie, like finding out her uncle is a serial killer, has him meet his match in cleverness. Only Sane Man: She has clueless parents (a ditzy Stepford Smiler Mom and a simple-minded father who is oblivious to the fact his brother-in-law is bad news) and two younger siblings in grade school who even overlook Uncle Charlie's misogynistic and frightening rant while she calls him out for seeing widows as sub-human. ![]() ![]()
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