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6.3/10
IMDbBest Movie Time Capsule | 2004 | Don
Best Costume Design | 2004 | Daniel
Best Titles Sequence | 2004
Best Production Design | 2004 | Andrew
Best Production Design | 2004 | Andrew
Overlooked Film of the Year | 2004
Best Original Song | 2004
Best Original Screenplay | 2004 | Dennis
Budget 35,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 20,298,207 USD
The extra scene at the end with Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger singing a duet was filmed at the insistence of the actor and actress. They said that with both of them having been in musicals previously (McGregor in Moulin Rouge! (2001) and Zellweger in Chicago (2002)) that it would be a sin not to.
The split-screen telephone calls scenes are direct homages to 1950s and 1960s screwball comedies, Pillow Talk (1959), in particular.
To create this movie's vivid, stylized appearance, cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth digitally color-timed the movie to simulate the appearance of three-strip Technicolor.
Everything the characters wore, literally from head to feet, was custom-made for them.
During the dating montage, one of the scenes in the background is of a man playing bongo drums. This footage was taken from the scene in Pillow Talk (1959) when Doris Day's and Rock Hudson's characters first meet.
"Catcher Block: [as Zip Martin] Can you keep a secret? Barbara Novak: Yes. Catcher Block: [as Zip Martin] Me too."
"Vickie Hiller: The men who resent my success won't give me the time of day, and the men who respect my success won't give me the time of night. Peter MacMannus: If you give me the chance, I'd respect you and resent you day and night, and night and day!"