Speech acts which belongs to the field of pragmatics carrying a concept that when people say something, they perform an action.The study aims at investigating speech acts in a documentary film entittled the Tinder Swindler.There have been various research on speech acts in movies, but there Flip Flops is a lack of research on this topic which carries a documentary film as the center of attention.
A qualitative research method is employed in the research using a document review as the data collection technique and descriptive and interpretative technique to analyze the data.The finding suggests that representative Protectors category dominates the utterances in the film taking 74% occurance.Hopefully, this study will fill the research gap and enrich the collection of studies on speech acts.