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1	* DawsonCasting:
2	** Odd examples. Twelve-year-old Creator/LoganLerman plays Evan at the age of seven. Seventeen-year-old Creator/JohnPatrickAmedori plays Evan at thirteen.
3	** The main characters are all meant to be around 20 years old in the present day (2004). Creator/AshtonKutcher was 26, Amy Smart was 28, Creator/EldenHenson was 27, and William Lee Scott was 31. Ashton and Amy play [[spoiler:the characters at their own ages in the theatrical ending]].
4	* DyeingForYourArt: Creator/EldenHenson gained twenty pounds in the space of a month for the scenes in which Lenny is crazy.
5	* FakeNationality: White French-Canadian actor Creator/KevinDurand portrays Carlos, a Mexican.
6	* OneHitWonder: Writer/directors Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber made something of a name for themselves with ''Film/FinalDestination2'', had a surprise hit with this film, and then just as quickly vanished, albeit with Bress later popping up again to write ''Film/FinalDestination4'' without Gruber's involvement.
7	* RealitySubtext: As the film was shot in a real prison, some of the extras were in fact real prisoners.
8	* SparedByTheCut: Evan comes to the conclusion that somebody suffers through his actions no matter what he does to avert it (he's able to go back to certain times in his life and remember what effects his actions had in previous runs), so in the director's cut he strangles himself in the womb. His mother had several miscarriages, implying this happened to all her stillborn children.
9	* ThrowItIn: The lights flickering in the background of the psychiatrist's office while Evan is being hypnotised? The wiring on set actually shorted out. But they loved it and kept the take in the final cut.
10	* TomHanksSyndrome: This was one of Creator/AshtonKutcher's first dramatic roles following his established comedic image from ''Series/That70sShow''.
11	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
12	** Creator/JoshHartnett, Creator/JoshuaJackson and Creator/SeannWilliamScott turned down the role of Evan.
13	** Creator/AliLarter was also cast as Kayleigh but dropped out.
14	** As mentioned on the main page, Evan's name was originally [[MeaningfulName Chris Treborn]]. However, the producers feared religious protests, and had the name changed to the more stilted pun of Evan Treborn (Event Reborn).
15	** In addition to the Director's Cut ending, there are two others. The first has [[spoiler:Evan following Kayleigh on the street]]. The second has him [[spoiler:actually talking to her]].

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