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1* ActingInTheDark: Only Creator/KennethBranagh and Creator/JudyDavis were privy to the complete script.
2* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $12 million. Box office, $5,078,660. This was not one of Woody Allen's better received films [[note]]its ''Website/RottenTomatoes'' score is 41%[[/note]] but it didn't stop him one bit.
3* CastTheExpert: Former model Creator/CharlizeTheron plays a supermodel.
4* FakeAmerican: British Creator/KennethBranagh does a somewhat inexplicable nasal Brooklyn accent when playing Creator/WoodyAllen's alter ego Lee, who's American; while Lee's wife Robin, who's implied to be American too, is played by Australian Creator/JudyDavis.
5* HostilityOnTheSet: According to Creator/MichaelLerner, he and Creator/WoodyAllen did not get along, and they got into a heated argument on the set. In an interview with ''[[Website/AVClub The A.V. Club]]'', Lerner called Allen "a schmuck".
6* TheOtherMarty:
7** Creator/WoodyAllen was dissatisfied with a sequence that featured Creator/VanessaRedgrave and re-shot it with Creator/ElaineStritch. He eventually re-wrote the material for a younger character, played in the final movie by Creator/BebeNeuwirth.
8** Creator/SaffronBurrows was originally cast as Supermodel, but was fired and replaced with Creator/CharlizeTheron.
9* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
10** Creator/HughGrant was the original choice for Lee Simon.
11** The role of Nola was intended for Creator/DrewBarrymore, but she had to decline, owing to a previous commitment to ''Film/EverAfter''. Creator/KateWinslet was also considered.
12** Creator/KimBasinger was originally cast as Nicole Oliver.

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