In the very beginning of the movie, the two brothers are gambling together. They pull the lever on one of the slot machines and two cows come up. Significant because they have an encounter with cows later in the movie.
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In the very beginning of the movie, the two brothers are gambling together. They pull the lever on one of the slot machines and two cows come up. Significant because they have an encounter with cows later in the movie.
At the beginning the two brothers are in the casino taking quarters out of a feed the children donation box. It's ironic that they should get the gold coin with the quarters and race to Silver City and end up giving the money to the Feed the Children Foundation and the end.
If you look closely during the Lucy impersonator scenes, you'll see the same woman who got her lipstick all over her face in the movie 'Airplane', also directed by Jerry Zucker, as one of the older Lucys. This woman is Zucker's mother, and Zucker has made a point to include her in small role in his movies.
During the monster truck scene, it briefly shows a shot of the crowd standing up and cheering. The man with the white shirt in the front row is Josh Breckman, the writer's son.
This is the first movie to have 2 Academy award-winning Afro-Americans together.
Donald Sinclair was an actual hotel manager in the British town of Torquay, where John Cleese's TV series "Fawlty Towers" was set. Cleese turned Basil Fawlty into a composite of Sinclair.
When all the contestants are running towards the train station in Silver City, in the shot that shows all the contestants running past the camera, you see Seth Green jump over something as he gets near the camera. If you watch the 'Behind the Scenes' footage on the DVD, you see it is the end of the camera track that he jumps over.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s character is based upon a real-life referee, who miscalled a coin toss at the beginning of a football game.
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