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1* BoxOfficeBomb: Made back only $12.2 million of its $30 million budget domestically.
2* BreakawayPopHit: The *NSYNC song "Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays", which became a hit song on the radio around the holidays, was originally written for that film.
3* DirectToVideo: Went straight to video in the UK in 1999.
4* MissingTrailerScene: The scene where the little boy starts urinating on Jake's lap (seen in the trailer) is cut from the film. "Wet Lap Boy" is still credited despite that though.
5* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/JessicaBiel dated Adam [=LaVorgna=], the Ed-Man, after they met while filming.[[note]]Incidentally the following year, [=LaVorgna=] would join the cast of ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', which Biel was starring in at the time, as Robbie, who initially was the boyfriend of her character, Mary Camden.[[/note]]
6* StarDerailingRole: Jonathan Taylor Thomas's prospects for a serious film career were largely torpedoed after the poor performance of this movie.
7* UnderageCasting / VagueAge: Since the movie can't decide whether they're high school or college students, this may be the case with Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Creator/JessicaBiel and Adam [=LaVorgna=] playing college students while aged 15-17 during filming.

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