* ActorSharedBackground: Creator/VinceVaughn's character lives in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}, as does Vaughn himself.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $70 million. Box office: $48,475,290 (domestic); $21,246,676 (international).
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The German for dilemma is "dilemma". So, naturally, in Germany, ''The Dilemma'' is shown as ''Dickste Freunde'' -- which means ''Fat Friends''. Or less literally ''Best Friends''.
* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Trailers for the film were pulled due to Vince Vaughn's character describing hybrid cars as gay ("but not in a homosexual way") [[http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-anderson-cooper-gay-joke,0,5367496.story after a rash of gay teen suicides.]]
* StarDerailingRole: For Creator/VinceVaughn. He forced many rewrites onset, [[WagTheDirector took over creative control]] from director Creator/RonHoward, and defended his character's homophobic comments. Consequently, audiences stayed away.
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