Accidental Love - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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[elmer]

Director David O. Russell left the project in July 2010, after negotiations with financier Ron Tutor broke down. He was credited as "Stephen Greene," similar to the old "Alan Smithee" pseudonym used by directors who disown the final version of a film they may have directed at one point but were not able to exercise creative control over.

[tom]

Filmed in 2008. By the time it was released in 2015, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. "Obamacare") had been passed into law, making the film's message about health care totally irrelevant. The film was promoted as a romantic comedy, not the political satire that was intended.

[bernice]

Originally a Capitol Films production. When cast and crew could not be paid due to Capitol's financial woes, chief backers David Bergstein and Ron Tutor shelved the film.

[gabriel]

Jessica Biel and Tracy Morgan's contracts reqquired them to film reshoots, which did not involve Director David O. Russell.

[brent]

The opening credits scene where the ice cream truck is driving down a street in a small town in Indiana was actually filmed in New Milford, Connecticut. The footage is B-roll from the remake of Mr. Deeds (2002).

[melinda]

To prevent Capitol from releasing an unpolished version of the film, Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher withheld film negatives and postponed shooting the crucial sequence in which Jessica Biel's character is injured with a nail gun until the final day of filming. Because one union eventually pulled support for the film with only two days left to shoot, the sequence was not shot. It was later added in digitally.

[gerald]

During shooting in 2008, James Caan quit the film after creative differences with the director over his character's death scene.

[bryan]

In 2011, David Bergstein cobbled together whatever was filmed and gave test screenings in LA. The crew was unaware.

[ella]

David Bergstein attributed the film's financial woes to the 2008 financial collapse, but the filmmakers believed they were being "intentionally squeezed."

[fred]

The film carries a 2013 copyright date, suggesting the final edit was completed two years before release.

[stephanie]

In early 2010, the film's financier, Ronald Tutor, who controlled the film's rights along with David Bergstein, paid millions of dollars to get several films, including this one, out of a foreclosure action. Bergstein hired an editor to assemble a cut of the film that was shown to David O. Russell when he was asked to return and film re-shoots. Russell and Tutor were unable to strike a deal, and Russell permanently left the production in July. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Russell's primary grievance was Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher being pushed to accept 50% pay cuts. The producers, who also left the film, called the requested concessions "unfair, unprofessional, and detrimental to the movie."

[lena]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Catherine Keener previously appeared in Lovely & Amazing (2001).

[melinda]

The second film directed by David O. Russell to be rated PG-13.

[beth]

Production shut down numerous times due to financial problems. In May 2008, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel walked off the set after producers failed to show they had enough money to pay the cast. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced it would keep all cast members from the movie until the production company showed it had enough money set aside in a union-mandated account. When the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) learned that below-the-line crew members were not being paid, union leaders called for staff-members to boycott the production. Production shut down again in June 2008, when several crew members didn't show up for work because they hadn't been paid.

[jamie]

This the third film in which Lindsay Lohan was supposed to star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal as a love interest, but ended up not starring in the film. The first one was The Day after Tomorrow (2004) and the second one was Source Code (2011).

[victoria]

Scott mentions Oakley on several occasions in the film. James Marsden has worn Oakley eyewear in the X-Men films.

[ronnie]

The film was featured, under the working title "Nailed," in Simon Braund's 2013 book "The Greatest Movies You'll Never See." It's the second film featured in the book, after The Day the Clown Cried (1972), to be completed, and the first to be released.

[richard]

The second time James Marsden plays a character by the name of Scott, after playing Scott Summers in the X-Men movies.

[amber]

Lindsay Lohan auditioned for the role of Alice Eckle.