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The story is [[Narrator|narrated]] by [[Teens Are Monsters|14-year old]] Pauline Rieper through her [[Real Life]] diary entries from the time she meets [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Juliet]] [[Ill Girl|Hulme]], to when they create [[Imagine Spot|their own fantasy world]], to when their impending separation causes them to believe [[Murder Is the Best Solution]] to their problems.

 

 

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* [[Murder Is the Best Solution]]: In Pauline's mind, the only thing standing between her and living with the Hulmes is her mother.

* [[Mr. Imagination|Ms. Imagination]]: Both Pauline and Juliet by quite a bit.

* [[New Years Resolution]]

* [[California Doubling|New Zealand Doubling]]: Averted, the entire film was shot on location in Christchurch, NZ. They even filmed where the actual murder took place. According to IMDB, it became eerily quiet when they started shooting, so they moved up a few paces until things felt comfortable. That's the actual tea shop in the park; when filming was completed, the tea shop was torn down so that it wouldn't become a Graceland.

* [[Parental Obliviousness]]

* [[Put On a Bus]]: How Juliet feels when her parents leave her in hospitals for her health while they go on business trips.

* [[Psycho Lesbian|Psycho]] [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: They appear to be this in the movie, but Anne Perry insists it was "only" a really intense two-girl friendship. (Pauline doesn't talk to the press.) The actresses were instructed to play the girls as "devoted friends" who were just role-playing love scenes between their favorite characters.

* [[Shout Out]]: The photo of Orson Welles that floats away on the river is a homage to a scene from ''[[The Third Man]]''; one of the photos in Pauline's room is the real Juliet Hulme.

** ''[[The Simpsons]]'' did an episode inspired by this story, with Lisa befriending a young girl named Juliet Hobbes. Together, the two girls invent the fantasy world of Equalia. Unlike Pauline, though, Lisa eventually decides she'd rather live in the real world.

** In reality, ''Pauline'' was described as glamorous by classmates; a "proud beauty", "like a gypsy". Juliet was considered a [[British Stuffiness|snooty Brit]] with a "perpetual cold" who (they thought) [[Playing Sick|exaggerated her symptoms]] for attention.

* [[Sock It to Them]]: The movie ends with a murder committed with a brick in a nylon stocking.