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FILM · 2014 · USA

Men, Women & Children

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  1. #001

    Men, Women & Children was released in US theaters on October 1, 2014. It was pulled from all US theaters on October 30 and earned less than one million dollars domestically.

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    Writer, producer and director Jason Reitman felt that much of the acting in the film depended on reactions to texts, chats and photos, and that using fake screens with no text would not be enough. The production team had to create highly realistic versions of popular websites, entirely on their own tightly controlled software, so that the actors and actresses could interact with them in real time. According to Reitman, "they spent as much of our budget creating the digital world as we did creating the physical world. People know what Facebook looks like better than a hotel lobby, you look at it all day, so it had to be convincing."

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  3. #003

    Men, Women & Children was Timothée Chalamet's (Danny Vance) first feature film.

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  4. #004

    Cameron Diaz was offered the role of Donna Clint.

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  5. #005

    When Patricia Beltmeyer (Jennifer Garner) tracks her daughter on her cell phone and opens the map, her daughter's location is a pale blue dot. This further emphasizes the pale blue dot theory that none of this matters in the long run.

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    The film's cast includes two Oscar winners: Dame Emma Thompson and J. K. Simmons; and one Oscar nominee: Timothée Chalamet.

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  7. #007

    Both Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer appeared together in 13 Going on 30 (2004) as Jenna Rink and Lucy Wyman.

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  8. #008

    David Denman's character is named Jim Vance. Both of these names appeared in The Office (2005), in which he also appeared.

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  9. #009

    Men, Women & Children (2014) is an American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Reitman with Erin Cressida Wilson, adapted from Chad Kultgen's novel of the same name about online addiction. The film stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Jennifer Garner, Judy Greer, Dean Norris, Adam Sandler, Ansel Elgort, Kaitlyn Dever and Timothée Chalamet.

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