Trivia / That's My Boy

• Box Office Bomb: Budget: $70 million. Box office, $57,719,093. Being released in a crowded summer with films like The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man, the latter film Sony Pictures spent all their marketing and focus on, and getting negative reviews for making light of subjects like statutory rape, incest, and child neglect all but made the film flop at the box-office.
• Creator Backlash: Judging by this comment during their appearance on the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, neither Sandler nor Samberg seem to really want to look back on the film.
  Andy: And we also made a movie that bombed!
  Adam: Why would you bring that up?
• Dawson Casting: Chad is supposed to be Jamie's younger brother, but Milo Ventimiglia is nine years older than Leighton Meester.
• Fake Irish: James Caan as Father McNally.
• Playing Against Type: Andy Samberg is best known for extremely raunchy/goofy characters, but here he's the Straight Man that all the raunchy and goofy stuff happens to.
• Real-Life Relative:
  • Eva Amurri Martino played the younger version of her real-life mother Susan Sarandon.
  • Adam Sandler's daughters played the lemonade stand girls.
• Recycled Set: The Donnie Burger Story scenes were shot on the Married... with Children set from seasons nine through eleven, at Sony Pictures Studios.
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: Justin Weaver, who plays 12-13y/o Donny, actually kinda looks like Adam Sandler as a kid.
• Star-Derailing Role:
  • Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg survived this disaster of a film, but Leighton Meester wasn't so lucky.
  • Milo Ventimiglia's career wasn't left untouched either, as it would take four years for him to finally be able to headline a show that lasted for more than one season.
• Uncredited Role: Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Robert Smigel, David Wain, and Ken Marino all did uncredited re-writes of the script.
• Working Title: The film was originally titled I Hate You, Dad and then changed to Donny's Boy before the producers finally settled on That's My Boy.

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