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FILM · 2015

Accidental Love

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16 Interesting Facts About Accidental Love

  1. #003

    Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher hid the film negatives to prevent Capitol from releasing an unpolished version of the film, and they postponed the shooting of the key scene in which Jessica Biel's character is injured by a nail gun to the last day of filming. With only two days of shooting left, a union finally withdrew its support for the film, so the sequence was never shot. It was later added digitally.

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  2. #004

    In 2011, David Bergstein assembled everything that had been shot and held test screenings in Los Angeles. The crew was unaware.

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  3. #005

    The opening title scene, in which an ice cream truck drives down a street in a small town in Indiana, was actually shot in New Milford, Connecticut. The footage is B-roll from the remake of Mr. Deeds (2002).

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  4. #006

    It was shot in 2008. By the time it premiered in 2015, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as "Obamacare") had been enacted, which made the film's message about health care completely meaningless. The film was marketed as a romantic comedy rather than the intended political satire.

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  5. #008

    The film's copyright date is 2013, indicating that the final edit was completed two years before its release.

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  6. #009

    It was originally a Capitol Films production. When Capitol's financial troubles made it impossible to pay the cast and crew, its main backers, David Bergstein and Ron Tutor, shelved the film.

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  7. #010

    Jessica Biel's and Tracy Morgan's contracts required them to take part in reshoots that did not involve director David O. Russell.

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  8. #012

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

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  9. #015

    Screenwriter Kristin Gore is the daughter of politician Al Gore.

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  10. #016

    Producers Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher first learned that the film had been completed without their knowledge when their daughter invited them to a test screening of Accidental Love (2015).

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  11. #018

    This is the third film in which Lindsay Lohan was to play a love interest opposite Jake Gyllenhaal but in which she did not appear in a leading role. The first was The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and the second was Source Code (2011).

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  12. #019

    It is the second film directed by David O. Russell to be rated PG-13.

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  13. #020

    The film's production was reportedly shut down 14 times because of cash-flow problems.

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  14. #021

    Jake Gyllenhaal and Catherine Keener had previously appeared together in the 2001 film Lovely & Amazing.

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  15. #022

    Scott mentions Oakley several times in the film. James Marsden had worn Oakley sunglasses in the X-Men films.

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  16. #023

    After playing Scott Summers in the X-Men films, James Marsden takes on a character named Scott for the second time.

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