Trivia / Intolerable Cruelty

• Creator's Oddball: A Coen Brothers Romantic Comedy. With a happy ending, no less.
• Hey, It's That Place!: Sarah's house is the same one from Last Action Hero.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: Catherine Zeta-Jones was pregnant with her daughter Carys during the shooting of the movie.
• Saved from Development Hell: The Coen Brothers stated that the film was nearly in the works for eight years. It initially began as a project they wrote up for Universal.
• What Could Have Been: Initially the screenplay was attached to Ron Howard and then Jonathan Demme, who had planned to cast Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the lead roles. At one point, Andrew Bergman was going to direct and reunite Roberts with Richard Gere and Demme offered Will Smith the male lead.

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