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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:lawndogs-friends.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| '''Trent:''' I'll make you a deal. We can be friends, if you can keep it a secret.~~<br />~~ '''Devon:''' What's wrong with you and me being friends? }} Line 12: Things come to a violent head, however, when Devon's parents learn about the friendship and misinterpret it. US-based tropers can watch it on Hulu [https://web.archive.org/web/20120329203626/http://www.hulu.com/watch/96299/lawn-dogs here]. {{tropelist}} * [[Adults Are Useless]]: With the possible exception of Trent, the only adult who understands Devon (and not completely). Line 20: * [[Attempted Rape]]: {{spoiler\|Brett}}, to Devon, ironically enough. Contrast her parent's reaction when she tries to tell them a "nice boy" has attacked her to their immediate assumption the Trent is a paedophile. * [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted somewhat with Devon. * [[Bratty Half -Pint]]: The neighborhood boy who bugs people and is actually the one {{spoiler\|that stole the street lamps and music from the bullies.}} * [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler\|Devon's father's gun}} * [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Devon loosely narrates a fantastical version of her life throughout the film, and her conversation patterns have a . . . . unique logic to them. * [[Corrupt Hick]]: Trent mentions having been shot by a cop who left him for dead. * [[Corruption Byby a Minor]]: Devon convinces Trent to do illegal mischief, not the other way around. * [[Covers Always Lie]]: The box for the US version makes the movie look like some kind of romance involving Trent and a woman, when in fact the woman plays a minor role in the story, and the film is definitely not a romance. Well, it is a (chaste) romance, but between Devon and Trent. * [[Deep South]] Line 32: * [[Gainax Ending]] * [[Harmful to Minors]]: Devon witnesses Trent getting it on with a woman, and later, her own mother cheating on her father. If that's not enough, an adult bully tries to sexually abuse Devon. Then even later, {{spoiler\|a cop and her father start beating up Trent, in full view of Devon.}} * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: A young [[The OC\|Mischa Barton]] plays Devon in her very first film role. Sam Rockwell goes on to play Justin Hammer in [[Iron Man (~~Film~~film)\|Iron Man 2]]. [[Requiem for Aa Dream\|Tappy Tibbons]] is Devon's dad. * [[Heroic Bystander]]: Devon. * [[Intergenerational Friendship]] Line 48: * [[Stepford Suburbia]] * [[Suck Out the Poison]]: Done in a [[Squick\|squicky]] way. Devon sucks on Trent's finger after he cuts it on a chainsaw. He gets disturbed and pulls away. * [[Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour]]: A hell of a lot! Even more troubling since Devon acts realistically her age, and therefore does things that are messed up, yet in a realistically childlike way. This is justified by the screenwriter in an [https://web.archive.org/web/20120730041953/http://www.rwor.org///a/1232/naomirwinterview.htm interview]: {{quote\| "Also, children are expected to be a certain way, and I like the unexpectedness of how children really are if you watch them. (...) Sometimes children just don't go by the rules, they often have a natural inclination not to, which we as adults have often lost."}} * [[We Do Not Know Each Other]]: A woman Trent has a fling with later avoids him at a party. * [[World Half Empty]]: Trent and Devon are two of maybe four sympathetic characters in the film. Line 59: [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:Lawn Dogs]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Film]]