Though her role is essentially a plot function, she has her own cool, very funny way of functioning.

The love stories and the criminal plot function as a narrative basis on which the overcoming of several obstacles are told:

Their characters have to matter apart from their plot function.

In fact, Robert is a plot function.

And while the cowardly Jackson Blue serves no critical plot function, his very presence is a joy.

The horn has a logical plot function in this tale, unlike "Allison Gross".

She's no longer the heavily madeup plot function she is in the book.

Yet no matter how their characters are disguised, they exist principally to make the plot function.

However, he's less a character than a plot function, designed to bring together the film's chronologically fractured structure.

It might have had some plot function, but I can't remember what, and anyway, it didn't make it beyond the very early version.