1 | * ActorSharedBackground: Chiles parents are revealed [[spoiler: to have served time in prison]]. Creator/LeightonMeester was in the same situation. |
2 | * BreakawayPopHit: Leighton Meester's "Summer Girl" is better remembered than the film. |
3 | * DuelingMovies: With ''Literature/CrazyHeart''. |
4 | * IronyAsSheIsCast: Tim [=McGraw=], a successful country singer, is the only one of the four leads who does not sing in the film. |
5 | * MethodActing: |
6 | ** Garrett Hedlund actually stayed in Tim [=McGraw=]'s ranch and had guitar rehearsals there so he could fully immerse himself in the mindset of a country singer. |
7 | ** Both Garret Hedlund and Gwyneth Paltrow learned to play guitar and trained their voices for the film, so as not to rely on doubles. |
8 | * MissingTrailerScene: A music video for the song "Summer Girl" contains a few shots of Chiles performing in the bar that don't appear in the final film. She's shown only performing the end of the song in the actual scene. |
9 | * RealitySubtext: |
10 | ** Beau was based off country singer Hayes Carll, who ended up writing most of his songs in the film. |
11 | ** Leighton Meester was also in the process of releasing her first album, giving her a few parallels to Chiles. |
12 | * StarDerailingRole: The successive failures of this movie, ''Film/MonteCarlo2011'' and ''Film/ThatsMyBoy'' ended any chance Leighton Meester had at becoming a bankable Hollywood star. [[{{Irony}} She has found a little more success as a singer]]. |
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