History Trivia / AlphaDog

* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Creator/NewLineCinema (who previously released ''Film/TheNotebook and Film/JohnQ'' for writer-director Nick Cassavetes) was tapped to release the film, but they requested some edits that Cassavetes didn't want to make. So the film was sold to Universal, who delayed the film for a year, but released it intact.
* PlayingAgainstType: Justin Timberlake was in the process of trying to shake off his teen heartthrob image from N*Sync - so here he plays a violent gang member [[spoiler: and eventual murderer]].

* BeautyInversion: SharonStone appears in a fatsuit towards the end of the film.

* BeautyInversion: Creator/SharonStone appears in a fatsuit towards the end of the film.

* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/BenFoster told Sharon Stone to really hit him during their fight. She hit him so hard, his nose started bleeding. The take is used in the finished film.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Creator/NewLineCinema requested some edits that writer/director Nick Cassvetes didn't want to make. So the film was sold to Universal, who delayed the film for a year, but released it intact.
* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/JustinTimberlake was in the process of trying to shake off his teen heartthrob image from N*Sync - so here he plays a violent gang member [[spoiler: and eventual murderer]].
* ProductionPosse: Of a sort. Creator/ShawnHatosy (Elvis), Heather Wahlquist (Wanda) and David Thorton (Zack and Jake's dad) all previously worked with director Nick Cassavetes in ''Film/JohnQ''.

** Justin Timberlake, Creator/AmandaSeyfried, Creator/OliviaWilde and Creator/VincentKartheiser would later star in ''Film/InTime''.
** Creator/EmileHirsch, Chris Marquette and Olivia Wilde all appeared in ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. New Line Cinema requested some edits that the director didn't want to make. So the film was sold to Universal, who delayed the film for a year, but released it intact.

* ThrowItIn: When Wanda screams "Heil!" in Jake's apartment, everything that followed was unscripted. The cast just went along with it, improvised and the director kept it in the film.

* ThrowItIn: When Wanda screams "Heil!" in Jake's apartment, everything was unscripted. The cast just went along with it, improvised everything and the director kept it in the film.

* HarsherInHindsight: Downplayed. Anton Yelchin plays a teenager based on one that [[spoiler: dies]] in real life and later does himself in real life in a car accident.

* HarsherInHindsight: Downplayed. Anton Yelchin plays a teenager that [[spoiler: dies]] in real life and later does himself in real life in a car accident.

* PlayingAgainstType: Justin Timberlake was in the process of trying to shake off his teen heartthrob image from N*Sync - so here he plays a violent gang member [[spoiler: and eventual murderer]].
* ProductionPosse: Of a sort. Shawn Hatosy (Elvis), Heather Wahlquist (Wanda) and David Thorton (Zack and Jake's dad) all previously worked with director Nick Cassavetes in ''Film/JohnQ''.

** Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde and Creator/VincentKartheiser would later star in ''Film/InTime''.
** Emile Hirsch, Chris Marquette and Olivia Wilde all appeared in ''Film/{{The Girl Next Door|2004}}''.

** Ben Foster had worked with Bruce Willis in ''{{Film/Hostage}}''.

** Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde and Vincent Kartheiser would later star in ''Film/InTime''.

* DawsonCasting: Downplayed, Zach is fifteen and Creator/AntonYelchin was seventeen at the time.

* DawsonCasting: Downplated, Zach is fifteen and Creator/AntonYelchin was seventeen at the time.

* ProductionPosse: Of a sort. Shawn Hatosy (Elvis), Heather Wahlquist (Wanda) and David Thorton (Zack and Jake's dad) all previously worked with director Nick Cassavetes in his previous movie ''Film/JohnQ''.

** Emile Hirsch, Chris Marquette and Olivia Wilde all appeared in ''Film/TheGirlNextDoor''.