Trivia / Marci X

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $20 million. Box office, $1,675,706.
• Creator Backlash:
  • During a 2011 talk show appearance Matthew Morrison made in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jay Leno played a clip of Morrison from the film (as he played one of the members of Boyz R Us). Morrison's response was "It was the gayest thing I've ever done in my life, literally. I was in a gay boy band in the movie called 'Boyz R Us.'"
  • Lisa Kudrow seldom had a kind word for the film, later expressing that the only good part about doing the film was getting to work and talk with Damon Wayans, whom she said is a really smart person.
• Creator Killer:
  • This is the final theatrical film from director Richard Benjamin. The only films Benjamin has directed afterwards are Made-for-TV movies.
  • Paul Rudnick once had a promising film career as a writer with hits like Addams Family Values and In & Out. That ended following this film's downright awful critical and commercial performance, along with the following year's almost-as-poorly reviewed and barely profitable The Stepford Wives remake. Although he's supposedly stayed fairly active as an uncredited script doctor, he hasn't had an actual credit since the latter film.
• Distanced from Current Events: In a 2002 interview, Sherie Rene Scott (the actress who played Kirstin, one of Marci's friends) revealed that the film originally had an ending that would have referenced the Hindenburg disaster, but had to be scrapped after 9/11, as the filmmakers felt it would be inappropriate following the attacks.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The film was completed in 2000 but didn't get released until 2003. Reportedly the film was originally set to be released in the fall of 2001, but the ending had to be reshot due to 9/11 and since the scene featured Damon Wayans and Lisa Kudrow, reshoots had to be done around their TV schedules.
• Star-Derailing Role: Lisa Kudrow previously starred in successes like Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and Analyze This, bolstered by her hype from Friends. She hasn't been the lead in a film after this one became a horrid failure while any roles in hit films she was in were just supporting parts. Though Damon Wayans never had the most successful track record starring in motion pictures to begin with, this film killed his movie career for good. He has since stuck to TV, where he has had more success.
• What Could Have Been: Chris Rock was offered the role of Dr. S. He called it the worst script he's ever read and that he'd "have been happier getting an envelope full of anthrax."

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