Life as a House

Trivia: The dog's name is Guster. The band Guster do 2 songs in the movie, "What You Wish For" & "Rainy Day", and to add on to that, Ryan and Adam were named after the two lead singers in the band.

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Trivia: Hayden Christensen didn't like wearing the heavy makeup and jewelry required for this movie. He complained that he was made to dress as adults saw goth teenagers and not as they actually were, which is why his character is so overly made-up, especially toward the beginning.

Trivia: When Hayden Christensen was filming the scene in which Sam finds out that George is dying, he improvised punching the wall with his fist. In doing so, he broke his hand. When shooting resumed, the wall was replaced with a prop wall so Hayden wouldn't hurt himself again.

Trivia: The home movie of George and Sam as a small child riding the ocean waves is a real-life home movie of Kevin Kline and his son Owen on a family vacation.

Trivia: Sam is not trying to hang himself in the beginning of the movie like most people think. He's trying to perform auto-erotic asphyxiation; a way of masturbating while cutting off the brain's supply of oxygen at the same time. It's like masturbating and getting high at the same time.

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Continuity mistake: During the sunscreen scene, Sam has a spot of sunscreen on his left cheek that appears and disappears between shots.

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Alyssa: I'm gonna go to bed.
Colleen: Has he eaten anything at all?
Alyssa: No.
Colleen: I'd be more comfortable if he slept in the guest room.
Alyssa: Well, I'd be more comfortable if you hadn't slept with Josh. George would be more comfortable if he wasn't dying.

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Question: I've seen this movie a couple of times, but I still don't get the deal with the man in the car that Sam goes to at night. What was he going to do?

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