- All-Star Cast: Aside from the three main stars, the film has many well known faces like Brian Dennehy, Anjelica Huston, Rashida Jones, Rosamund Pike, Jim Parsons, Joel McHale, Dianne Wiest, Tim Blake Nelson, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Pollak, Barry Shabaka Henley and the narration of John Cleese.
- Box Office Bomb: The film costed $41 million. Its worldwide gross ended with $7,2 million.
- Creator Killer: Aside from the TV pilot The King of 7B, screenwriter Howard Franklin hasn’t done anything since.
- Invisible Advertising: Fox hardly promoted the film, only releasing a trailer one month before release and having said trailer completely lie about the premise.
- Production Posse: Owen Wilson works with David Frankel again after Marley & Me as well as Theodore Shapiro (music composer) and Lawrence Sher (cinematographer). The film is also executive produced by Wilson's long time friend Ben Stiller who has also worked with Jack Black a few times.
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