Due Date - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[ivan]

WILHELM SCREAM: From a road crew worker jumping out of the way when Peter (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Ethan (Zach Galifianakis) drive the Subaru off the bridge.

[norma]

The phrase "check yourself before you wreck yourself" is first used by Ethan, and later in the movie heard in a song.

[jamie]

On Access Hollywood (1996) to promote the film, Robert Downey, Jr. said that working on this film was his "most glorious experience" in all his career.

[ken]

DIRECTOR TRADEMARK (Todd Phillips (dog): A white French bulldog appears in this movie and The Hangover (2009), but it is not the same dog. Scott Budnick was an Executive Producer on both films, and owns a French bulldog.

[russell]

Ethan sings along to the song "Hey You" by Pink Floyd, when he's driving at night and Peter gets high and sees him as a bear.

[elmer]

Ethan does an impression of Marlon Brandos The Godfather, Robert De Niro who played the younger version of Vito Corleone in Godfather Part ll (1974) later starred nine years later in Joker (2019) also directed by Todd Phillips, coincidentally Zach Galifianakis voiced the Joker in The Lego Batman Movie (2017).

[carla]

In the first scene of the movie, Peter describes a bizarre dream to his wife about a bear cutting his child's umbilical cord and the fact that, in the dream, he was alright with it. Foreshadowing the ending when Ethan cuts the umbilical cord of Peter's daughter. a scene in the middle of the film where Peter gets a contact high from riding in the car with Ethan while he's smoking weed. At one point, he looks over at Ethan and sees him as a bear, further driving the point home.

[ella]

DIRECTOR CAMEO (Todd Phillips As Barry, the man in Juliette Lewis' house.

[terry]

The film was frequently criticized as being just a rehash of Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987).

[ivan]

Ethan accidentally shoots Peter with, a stainless M1911A1 (in reality an ISS flashpaper gun).

[lonnie]

In the movie, Ethan (Zach Galifianakis) talks up his Two and a Half Men (2003) fan site. The site existed at the time at itsrainingtwoandahalfmen.com.

[steve]

Ethan's driver's license displays a birth date of October 1, 1969, the same as Zach Galifianakis.

[norma]

This is the second time that Robert Downey, Jr. and Jamie Foxx have worked together. The first time being The Soloist (2009).

[darrell]

Director Todd Phillips shot the film, as a form of battery-charging therapy, after the intensity and pressure of filming The Hangover (2009), and just prior to making The Hangover Part II (2011).

[jesse]

Shipped to theaters under the code name "Maternity Day".

[mathew]

The scene of the rollover accident was filmed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, despite the indication it was occuring near Dallas, Texas.

[claude]

Juliette Lewis plays a character named "Heidi". She also played a character named "Heidi" in Old School (2003). Both films were written and directed by Todd Phillips.

[scarlett]

Four of the main cast have starred in movies based on comics, Robert Downey Jr. (Peter) is best known for playing Tony Stark aka Iron Man on the MCU, Jamie Foxx (Darryl) played Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), Zach Galifianakis (Ethan) voiced The Joker in The Lego Batman Movie (2017), and writer/director Todd Phillips (Barry) directed Joker (2019).

[cassandra]

Robert Downey Jr. & Juliette Lewis both starred in Oliver Stone's controversial 1994 film, Natural Born Killers.