In the first club scene, Jason Alexander is dancing with a swaying woman, behind them is a woman wearing a headband and sleeveless pink top; as the camera pans around the corner to Hal's new dance partner who is holding on to the railings, the same girl with a headband is dancing next to them, only this time with a different guy. See more...
Most of this movie was filmed in Charlotte, NC. The shots of Freedom Park where you see the water and small bridge; "Arboretum" is a shopping center / community, and the panoramic shots of downtown are all notable. See more...
starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jack Black, Jason Alexander, Joe Viterelli (add more)
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The clothing that Rosemary wears throughout the movie is nothing any large woman would wear. She can't wear a bikini in public if she was embarrassed to wear lingerie in private with Hal. [I think this goes under "character decision". Since clothes are made that size some people obviously do wear them in that size. Rosie can if she wants to. When she's in lingerie she's embarassed because she's in a sexual situation which she wasn't when they were swimming.]
When Rosie is on the diving board if you look close enough you can see the water cannons in the water. Plus Rosie jumps completely over the cannons. [Those are the black lines you usually find painted on the bottom of swimming pools. You can see them in other shots which were filmed without water cannons.]
There's no way anyone working for the Peace Corps in a tropical third world county would be morbidly obese like Rosemary or Li Boy. First of all they wouldn't get in as physical fitness is required considering the difficult living arrangements and lack of First World amenities. Secondly, they wouldn't have access to the amount or type of food that allowed them to get so heavy in the first place. Thirdly, the heat, humidity, walking, and most likely intestinal ailments would get rid of quite a bit of that weight. [Rosemary and Lee Boy hadn't been to the island yet. Rosemary's old boyfriend had gone, but he said he was training Lee Boy.]
When Jack Black's character wants to be with Gywneth Paltrow's character, he decides to join the Peace Corps and leaves soon after. Anyone who has served in the Peace Corps or ever applied for service, knows that it takes months, and in some cases even years, to complete the application process. Therefore, it is impossible to decide to join the Peace Corps one day and commence service a few days later. [I think the point was that Le Boy and gang had been in the peace corps for some time, and perhaps had some "deputizing" power, which is what Le Boy did to Hal.]
Corrected by Joshua Skains
What Tony Robbins does to Hal is not supposed to be magic, but more like a form of hypnotism. Therefore, how does Hal know, at first sight, if new people he meets are beautiful or ugly 'on the inside'? Surely he should not be able to tell until he gets to know them better? [Actually, this is very specifically addressed. In the dialog, the claim is that you DIDN'T need to get to know them, rather their "inner beauty" was easy to see if you looked for it. While it might have some logic problems, there is a very whimsical attempt to address it by Robbins.]
Corrected by Joshua Skains
When Black is taken to the hospital to see the kids (and he's still seeing the inner beauty), Paltrow asks if they want to play the kissing game. There is a boy in a dressing robe who shouts "yes." along with the others, but when Paltrow asks "who wants to go first?" the boy suddenly changes his mind and says "not me". [The kids all say "me", but Black does not know about the lipstick. Paltrow explains the game, Black says "Oh, cool I wanna go first", then the kid changes his mind to "Then I wanna go last".]
When Hal takes Rosemary home after the swimming incident, she is embarassed about her attire and says "I should have changed at the beach". Well they weren't at the beach, they were at a public swimming pool. [They probably did go to the beach, its just that you never see them go there.]
In the scene where Hal enters the Children's Hospital (we know that because of the shot of the hospital sign) to find Rosemary, he asks the people at the information desk where he can find her. The first women says that Rosemary works in Pediatrics & the second women tells Hal that pediatrics is on the third floor. Actually "pediatrics" means "children" so EVERY floor in a children's hospital is pediatrics. [They say she works in pediatrics and then the woman says that she works ON the 3rd floor not that pediatrics IS the 3rd floor.]
In the scene where Hal shares a cab with the woman from Boston, Hal ends up giving the woman his number so she can call him. Later when they meet again, she asks Hal why he hasn't called her, but Hal doesn't have her number. [She really asked Hal "Why didn't you call me back?". Meaning that she phoned, but he didn't return her call.]
In the scene toward the end of the movie where the spell has worn off and Hal is on a date with the hot girl from across the hall, Rosemary and her family walk in. The mother is thin, as we've seen her throughout the movie, and Rosemary is fat. Later, at Rosemary's going-away party, we learn that the mother is overweight as well. So, shouldn't we have seen her as overweight when she was walking into the restaurant? We saw everyone else as they really were. [Mrs. Shanahan WAS obese when the family enters the restaurant. She is only thin when Hal has dinner at he Shanahan home.]
When the guru guy performs his magic on Hal inside the elevator he tells him that he will now see what's inside instead of judging people by their outside looks, which would mean that if a person is mean and shallow on the inside they would look very ugly on the outside, for example, his best friend would have to look extremely ugly since he is so shallow, but only the ugly people look beautiful in the movie. [Anthony Robbins tells Hal that for everyone he meets in the FUTURE he will be able to see their inner beauty.]
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