FILM · 2006 · USA
The Break-Up
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- #001
Vince Vaughn's parents have small roles in the film. His mother plays a tourist, and his father plays Jennifer Aniston's character's father.
- #002
The original ending, in which Gary and Brooke each date someone who looks like the other at an art fair (Brooke's date resembled Gary and Gary's resembled Brooke), was scrapped after testing poorly. A new ending was shot with the same outcome but showing Gary and Brooke meeting alone on the street. In both versions the two remain broken up.
- #003
Vince Vaughn gained 26 kilos for the role. It was reported that Vaughn gained the weight as a result of his recent decision to quit smoking.
- #004
In the opening scene at Wrigley Field, Jon Favreau mentions going to the "Wiener Circle" to eat a hot dog after the game. The Wiener Circle is a hot dog stand famous for its staff yelling and swearing at customers as they order. If the customer doesn't return the favor, they won't take your order. However, this usually only happens late at night on weekends.
- #005
Jennifer Aniston's character Brooke commissions a "Telly Savalas" wax figure during the film. In real life, Savalas was Aniston's godfather.
- #006
During filming, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were dating. Their relationship lasted one year.
- #007
Toward the end, Vince Vaughn uses his favorite line while telling the passengers on the tour boat about getting on board and making some bad decisions. He also uses the same line at the beginning of his role in Wedding Crashers (2005).
- #008
Writer and co-producer Jay Lavender appears in a small role as a Chicago Cubs fan sitting immediately to Jon Favreau's right in the opening scene at the Cubs game.
- #009
After The Break-Up was released in theaters, both Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn were offered the chance to star in a sequel. Jennifer Aniston was offered 20 million dollars to make the film, while Vince Vaughn was offered less, but two years later the idea was abandoned.
- #010
Peter Billingsley, who appears in and produced this film, also produced films starring Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau, such as Couples Retreat (2009), Four Christmases (2008) and Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2006).
- #011
The Tone Rangers is the name of a real a cappella group in Washington, D.C.
- #012
This is the fourth time Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau have appeared in a film together (after Swingers (1996), Made (2001) and Rudy (1993)).
- #013
The French film poster "Un Tueur dans la Foule" hanging above the television in Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn's apartment is for the 1976 film Two-Minute Warning (1976), starring Charlton Heston, which was also released by Universal Studios.
- #014
This is the first of five films starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman; the others are The Switch (2010), Horrible Bosses (2011), Horrible Bosses 2 (2014) and Office Christmas Party (2016).
- #015
It reunites Jason Bateman and Peter Billingsley after 24 years; they appeared as guest actors in an episode of Little House on the Prairie (1974), in which Bateman's character James Cooper befriends a stuttering boy named Gideon, played by Billingsley, in the episode titled "No Beast So Fierce."
- #016
This is the second film starring Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio; the first was The Cell (2000).
- #017
While Brooke waits for Gary at the concert, The Old 97's perform the song 'Time Bomb'. The Old 97's also played the same song during the opening title sequence of another Vince Vaughn film, Clay Pigeons (1998).
- #018
John Michael Higgins plays a member of the a cappella group Tone Rangers in this film. A few years later he went on to play an a cappella competition commentator in Pitch Perfect (2012) and Pitch Perfect 2 (2015).
- #019
Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau and John Michael Higgins would later appear in Couples Retreat (2009).
- #020
Joey Lauren Adams and Cole Hauser also appeared in Dazed and Confused (1993).
- #021
In the first breakup scene, Jennifer Aniston argues that going to a Michigan–Notre Dame football game and watching drunk students and leprechauns do backflips is not her idea of fun. Aniston's first major film was Leprechaun (1993), while Vince Vaughn played Notre Dame's running back in Rudy (1993).
- #022
Notre Dame trophies are visible while pool is being played; in Rudy (1993), Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau both have Notre Dame connections and both appear in this film.
- #023
Jon Favreau says that Vince Vaughn's line "I'm no Columbo" is a reference to the TV detective played by Peter Falk, who appeared with both Vaughn and Favreau in Made (2001).
- #024
The number twelve is repeated many times throughout the film.
- #025
Vince Vaughn appeared in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), while Vincent D'Onofrio showed up in Jurassic World (2015), eighteen years later.
- #026
Jennifer Aniston wore Generra Jeans throughout the film.
- #027
The film marks the debuts of Mercedes Mason, Jamie Julia Parker and Arden Cho.
- #028
The film marks the debut of Giota Trakas.
- #029
Vince Vaughn and Cole Hauser appeared together in Paparazzi (2004).
- #030
Vince Vaughn and Joey Lauren Adams had previously appeared as a couple in A Cool, Dry Place (1998).
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