Trivia[]
- The movie is loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". Quotations from the play are embedded in the background as title cards and occasionally integrated into the dialogue.
- During filming, Sydney Sweeney was bitten by a spider. The camera was rolling while this happened, which lead to the clip being posted online. The medical staff on set recorded the incident as "Sydney Sweeney (Cast Department) bitten by Spider, now Spiderwoman" while being unaware of her involvement with Madame Web (2024).
- Early in the film, Halle (Hadley Robinson) says to Bea (Sydney Sweeney) that ever since their parents arrived in Australia, her mother thinks that she, herself, is Australian. Rachel Griffiths (who plays their mother) is actually from Melbourne, Australia.
- The name of the shop where they get the wedding cake is Dogberry's. Dogberry was the name of the constable in the play "Much Ado About Nothing", on which this movie is based.
- The two main characters share names with the leads of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Bea's full name is Beatrice, as seen on her LinkedIn, while Ben could be seen as short for Benedict
- At the beginning of the film you can see a William Shakespeare quote on the wall outside of Ben's apartment, the movie is based on a Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing"
- Dermot Mulroney and Rachel Griffiths were in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).
- Surpassed Romeo + Juliet (1996) as the highest-grossing Shakespeare adaptation (excluding the Lion King films, which were based on Hamlet).
- The song Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield is playing in the end with the cast singing it. Coincidently another song by Natasha Bedingfield called Pocketful Of Sunshine was in Easy A (2010) which was also directed by Will Gluck.
- Last film to feature the 2023 revision of the 1993 Columbia Pictures opening logo.
- There is a reference to Olive Penderghast, the main character from Easy A (2010). Will Gluck directed both films.
- A reference to Sydney is made where they say "scour the grid" but in reality Sydney was an unplanned city being the first British settlement in Australia with inner city roads all over the place and unlike Melbourne, the streets are not laid out in a planned grid like fashion.
- The arrival scene at the airport seems to have many similarities to Crazy Rich Asians. The big bunch of balloons, the convertible jeep driving across a bridge and then the local landmark that resembles a ship in the background.
- Funny name coincidences:
- Ben is played by Glen, Halle is played by Hayley who actually prefers the stage name Hadley, Beau is played by Joe.
- Glen's stunt double was Ben and Joe's was Beau.
- Creating confusing over the radio during shooting.
- The film opens in Boston where there are scenes of Fenway Park and the old North Church.
Goofs[]
Continuity[]
- During the recreation of the "King of the World" scene from Titanic, the boat is supposed to be moving but rarely progresses beyond the Sydney Opera House.
- In the kitchen scene when Margaret makes Ben try Australian coffee, the number of buttons done up on her blouse keeps changing back and forth between shots.
- After Bea and Ben swim to the boat and get on it, they dry out much too quickly.
- At 56:13 when Ben and Margaret are on the boat chatting at the bar, Margaret's glass is half empty and when the camera angle changes it's full.
- When Ben slams the exes coffee before rushing off to Bea, he hands him back the cup, the it's gone and he only holding the saucer... the it's back.
- When Ben and Bea first meet and he's waiting outside the bathroom, she spends several minutes trying to dry the wet spot from her jeans with the hand dryer. The wet spot on her jeans fluctuates between her attempts/positions. This can be particularly noticed when she's hanging off the sink, claiming to have just started a new internship - when her jeans seem completely dry - and a moment later when her jeans are off, being held up to the dryer, and being blown up like a balloon - when the wet spot is freshly fully wet.
Factual errors[]
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- When they realize that Ben and Bea have fallen off the boat, the pilot says they can't go back for them because their boat will run aground. This statement is false as the harbour is sufficiently deep. The Royal Australian Navy has its Fleet Base East situated nearby (a warship can be seen in the background) and water traffic in front of the Opera House is constantly entering/exiting Circular Quay. The inability to turn around to rescue them was simply as a plot element.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs[]
- The hand prints on the glass cabinet door are not backwards; they were made by Bea's hands flipped outwards when her hands are pressed against the glass.
- In the airplane scene, the economy class was filmed in a wide body aircraft but the business class is narrow body.
- Claudia mispronounces Martin Scorsese's last name as "skor-SEES-ee" rather than "skor-SESS-ee". However, this is only a goof, if it is an error that the character would not have made.
- Bea and Ben meet because Bea says she desperately has to pee and Ben helps her get the key to the coffee shop restroom. She is never shown peeing/preparing to pee. However, it seems as if the actual intent is that the camera only joins her in the washroom after she has finished peeing, she is first shown refastening her pants afterwards. The toilet can be heard flushing as the scene opens.
- When Bea is shown on the flight to Australia, she is sitting in economy of a wide-body plane with 2 aisles. However, when she sees Ben in business class, the plane only has 1 aisle, as a narrow body plane would have.
Revealing mistakes[]
- One hour and 30 mins into movie, have a look at the green coffee cup, its there then not and then its there.
- Having been filmed in Sydney, at the start of the film when Bea is standing on the street outside Ben's place, you can see cars closer to her parked in USA style but one car far up the street is parked in standard Australian style.
Plot holes[]
- The sale, possession, and use of fireworks in Australia is strictly regulated and they would not be casually lying around a house as a party novelty.