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Trivia: In real life, Georgiana was only nine years younger than her husband, the Duke. She was seven years older than Charles Grey. The film portrays her as being much younger than her husband and closer in age to Charles.

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Trivia: The number Emily gives Will is 212-664-7665. Unlike the usual fake "555" number often used in movies, this is a real number that's also used in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Adjustment Bureau. Universal Studios acquired it precisely to save having to use a fake number in their films.

Jon Sandys

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Trivia: The name on the delivery van Floss and The Octopus arrive in is "Ditko's Delivery." Steve Ditko is a hall of fame comic artist known for creating Doctor Strange and co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. In 1994 he was also inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Will Eisner is the creator of The Spirit comics.

Bishop73

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Trivia: Jason's surname "Tripitikas" is a wry reference to the Chinese epic "Journey of the West", on which the film is partially based. In it, the Monkey King is freed from a stone prison by the monk Tripitika.

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Trivia: In the office at the end of the film a nameplate is visible on one of the cubicle walls. The nameplate reads "J.G Millar" which is a composite of writer Mark Millar and artist J.G. Jones, on whose comic the film is based.

Quinny

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Trivia: Danny Wallace, on whose book the film was very-loosely based, appears in the Hen Night party scene near the end of the film, standing at the bar just behind Jim Carrey.

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Trivia: While trying to locate Frank via gps, the techie is told to "hack into military satellites" to find him. There is a quick shot of a computer screen with code, and then it looks back at their faces. When paused on the code, you see the words "Command BitTorrent", which is a reference to BitTorrent, a program commonly used to download movies illegally off of the internet. Kind of ironic. (01:11:30)

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Trivia: At one point during the movie, Max visits a storage yard. The name of this yard is "Gognitti Storage". This is a reference to Vinnie Gognitti, who was an important character in the video game series.

Paul Kennett

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Trivia: Despite her prominent billing, Dianne Wiest does not appear until an hour and twenty minutes into the film, and has less than ten minutes of screen time.

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Trivia: Although the movie title is "27 Dresses", one of Jane's bridesmaid outfits is actually a man's black suit and tie (pant suit), and not a dress at all. This is shown at the end during Jane and Kevin's wedding. So really the movie should be called "26 Dresses and One Suit."

Hawk

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Trivia: Some details are taken from Jason Segel's life. For example, the naked breakup is based on a similar incident and he was working on a puppet-based Dracula rock-opera.

TedStixon

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Trivia: When Klaatu is shown on the tv as an escaped convict, the phone number shown to call to report him is not the usual 1-800-555 number, rather it is 1-800-472-0391 which is the Alaska Weather Information Hotline.

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Trivia: When the dessert blows up in Ashley's face at the wedding reception, you can hear the Wilhelm scream.

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Trivia: When Mauricio and Sarah receive the dress for baptizing a future daughter, they ponder over raising future children as Jewish or Catholics. Mauricio then says, "Who ever heard of Jewish Puerto Ricans?" John Leguizamo, who plays Mauricio, has children who are half Jewish.

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