53rd minute:
"Is Mark your boyfriend of just a trick?"

A trick is, primarily, the client of a prostitute.
It was supposedly used by gay men for a person one has picked up for the purposes of casual sex.
I have never called my casual partners that, nor do my friends. I suspect it is an obsolete usage. Jim Fall, the director of this film, is like 50 years old.
Snobbery is a form of romanticism, the chastity of the perfectionist

And the dog is named Trixielol.
"Make him do it again"
Ilithyia

This discussion made we want to see "Trick" again, which I did the other day. It turns out I'm not such an interesting commentator and observermaybe just a guy with a quirky memory: during the closing credits a song called "Trick of Fate" played!

"I think there's also a slight double meaning in the movie title. Of course, trick mainly refers to a one-night stand/pick up. But I also think it refers to a "trick of fate" in how the 2 guys meet, then actually become closer because they can't find a place to hook up."
Very interesting comment and observation!

I think there's also a slight double meaning in the movie title. Of course, trick mainly refers to a one-night stand/pick up. But I also think it refers to a "trick of fate" in how the 2 guys meet, then actually become closer because they can't find a place to hook up.

May be, but it's dated and stereotypical.

I still here 'I had this trick the other night' from time to time from my gay friends.

"Trick" & "john" are still used in prostitution circles I believe. Although it's not something I'm that familiar with.
"No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."

However you do still have people who refer to someone having sex with people for money (Basicly prostitution!) as "Turning Tricks!"

'one night stand','affair', 'fling'.
No one I know gay still uses the term "trick" to describe their gratuitous sex partners. It's stereotype camp speak from the 90's.
"No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else."

First of all,thank you so much for your reply!
A new question,so the word can be used to describe one night stand between heterosexual people?

as additional info, extending the helpful definition supplied above, which, in terms of this movie, is certainly sufficient, the term "trick" arrived in gay culture from the lingo in the world of prostitutes, where a "trick" is the customer of a prostitute, similar to the slang term "john." The term retained its connection to someone you hook up with for sex in a one night stand, but dropped (in the sense of how it's normally used in gay culture, and in this film) the connection to prostitution.

Thank you so much!

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