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FILM · 2009 · USA

Bride Wars

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  1. #001

    During a scene in which the characters slap each other, Kate Hudson accidentally struck Anne Hathaway across the face much harder than intended. Although Hudson hit her with the large diamond ring on her finger, Hathaway kept filming the scenes through the pain. Hudson later found Hathaway sitting in a chair with an ice pack on her face.

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  2. #002

    A shoot during the reception involved a complicated series of dance steps. After many failed attempts, an extra who was a dance instructor wanted to teach the actors how to perform the steps correctly.

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  3. #003

    The film was initially conceived as a teen comedy starring Emma Roberts as Liv and Nikki Reed as Emma.

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  4. #004

    This was Kate Hudson's first producing credit on a feature film.

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  5. #005

    Some wives and girlfriends of 2009 Red Sox players appeared as extras in the wedding party scene.

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  6. #006

    Liv's engagement ring is a five-carat Tiffany Novo cushion cut.

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  7. #007

    The screenplay was completed just before the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike.

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  8. #008

    In early versions of the screenplay, Liv's hair was shaved bald rather than dyed blue.

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  9. #009

    Kate Hudson and Steve Howey were reunited in Something Borrowed (2011).

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  10. #010

    Kate Hudson improvised the scene in which Liv gets her hair done.

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  11. #011

    The film's cast includes one Oscar winner, Anne Hathaway, and two Oscar nominees, Kate Hudson and Candice Bergen.

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  12. #012

    Director Gary Winick also directed 13 Going on 30.

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  13. #013

    At the 2009 Teen Choice Awards, Anne Hathaway won the award for Choice Movie Actress: Comedy for her role as Emma.

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  14. #014

    It is worth noting that Deb, the unsympathetic character in the story, walks alone away from the dance floor at the end of the film, passing between dancing couples while sipping from a bottle of wine.

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  15. #015

    Apparently the male strippers at the club party received no appreciation at all.

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  16. #016

    The episode of American Idol that Emma and Fletcher watch features the performances of the top 24 men of the seventh season.

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  17. #017

    June Diane Raphael, who plays the bride at whose wedding Liv and Emma are friends at the beginning of the film, is married to Paul Scheer, who plays Dance Doctor Ricky Coo.

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