Murder Mystery

Adam Sandler's wife works as a flight attendant on the plane.

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The film set a new Netflix record. Netflix claims 30,869,863 accounts watched it in the first three days: 13,374,914 North American accounts and an additional 17,494,949 accounts from the rest of the world.

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Andrea Bendewald, who plays Audrey's client in the salon, is Jennifer Aniston's best friend. Bendewald was the maid of honor at Aniston's wedding to Brad Pitt and appeared as a guest star on the sitcom Friends (1994).

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The scene where the race begins shows real footage from the 2018 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix.

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Many references to Agatha Christie's murder mysteries can be found in this film. The Body in the Library is mentioned by Jennifer Aniston; the lights go out at social gatherings before a murder — A Murder Is Announced; the Amazon Dart used as the murder weapon — Death in the Clouds; the suspects' meeting with the killer is the classic Hercule Poirot reveal; the couple depart on the Orient Express; and the fonts used for the end credits, to name just a few, are from the BBC Poirot series.

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Nick mentions a man named Eric Lamonsoff. Kevin James played a character named Eric Lamonsoff in Grown Ups (2010) and Grown Ups 2 (2013), both of which also starred Adam Sandler. Many of Sandler's films reference this surname as a nod to his old friend.

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When Audrey goes to the plane's first-class section, a passenger is watching Game Over, Man! (2018), another film directed by Kyle Newacheck.

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The airport shown when Nick and Audrey arrive at Malaga Airport (Spain) is actually not Malaga Airport but Milan Malpensa Airport (Italy).

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This is the second film Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston made together. The first was Just Go With It (2011).

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It bears a passing resemblance to Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence Beresford novel series, in which a married couple find themselves caught up in all kinds of mysteries, are short of money, and the woman is far more engaged with the mystery than her husband. The biggest difference between Tommy and Tuppence and the main characters here is that Tommy and Tuppence are frequently unemployed or changing jobs, whereas in this film Nick and Audrey's careers are central to the characters. David Walliams played the role of Tobey in this film and played Tommy in Partners in Crime (2015), an adaptation of the Tommy and Tuppence stories that he also produced.

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The yacht featured in the film is the 'Sarastar', owned by Italian oil trader Michele Tecchia and named after the owner's wife, Sara Tecchia.

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Three Ferrari Testarossas were used in the car chase. A kit car replica was also used at one point. There were three cars because the engines kept breaking down during filming. One of the cars crashed in the background. Another was converted to electric after the film, and the third is still in the UK. There is no source for what happened to the Ferrari that crashed.

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The villa where the killer's identity is revealed at the end of the film is Villa Erba in Cernobbio, near Como, Italy.

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The coastline seen at the start of the boat trip, at around the 17th minute and identified as Spain, is actually the coastal town of Santa Margherita Ligure in northern Italy.

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In 2013, a report emerged from a German financier that Colin Firth, Adam Sandler and Emily Blunt would join Charlize Theron in the film, but this turned out to be false. Coincidentally, Sandler became involved in the project in 2018, and although Theron does not star in it, she has a production credit.

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The library in Monte Carlo was actually shot in an American law library. When Adam sits down, ALR Federal (American Law Reports) is directly behind him. Behind Jennifer are the chestnut-colored spines of Federal Practice and Procedure. The books with tan spines and red bands are official appeal reports. Pac. Rptr. (Reporter) is clearly visible. Pac. Rptr. contains the official records of appellate cases from western states. California has its own set with Cal. App. and Cal. Rptr. for the appellate and supreme court levels. Before computers, these books were the only source for legal research.

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In the filming of the Formula 1 race, the car Juan Carlos is expected to drive appears to actually be a McLaren MCL33. The team's two cars are shown. Car number 14 is driven by Fernando Alonso, and car number 2 by Stoffel Vandoorne.

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Director Kyle Newacheck's friend Adam Devine is seen on a television in first class on the plane. They worked together on Workaholics (2011) and the Netflix film Game Over, Man! (2018).

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Cavendish's Rolls-Royce is a Phantom. Its license plate number is EQU 617. Recent models (2016) cost close to $533,000 new. It gets 14 MPG, has a 412 cubic inch, 453 horsepower V-12 engine, and weighs 5,780 pounds. (16.8 l/100 km, 6.8 l V12, 2.6 tons).

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John Madden was at one time set to direct the film. Anne Fletcher later took over as director.

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Adam Sandler's daughters can be seen shouting out of a bus window at the end of the film.

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