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Must Love Dogs

Year:

2005

Duration:

98 min

Genres:

Comedy | Romance

IMDB rate:

5.9

Director:

Gary David Goldberg

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2005-07-29

Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Budget: $30,000,000

Opening Weekend: $12,855,321 (USA) (31 July 2005)

Gross: $43,894,863 (USA) (30 October 2005)

Cast

Actor

Character

Julie Dretzin

Shana Hiatt

Colin Egglesfield

Diane Lane

Sarah Nolan

John Cusack

Jake

Elizabeth Perkins

Carol

Christopher Plummer

Bill

Dermot Mulroney

Bob

Stockard Channing

Dolly

Ali Hillis

Christine

Brad William Henke

Leo

Julie Gonzalo

June

Glenn Howerton

Michael

Ben Shenkman

Charlie

Jordana Spiro

Sherry

Kirk Trutner

Deli Guy

Victor Webster

Eric

Michael Spound

Marc

Will McCormack

Jason

Ted Griffin

Bill Jr.

Marylouise Burke

Aunt Eileen

Brad Hall

Stanley

Bobby Coleman

Austin

Emma Prescott

Molly

Jaden Sorensen

Justin

Will Rothhaar

Jeremy

Tony Bill

Walter

Patrick St. Esprit

Marshall

Josh Stamberg

Lennie

Anoush NeVart

Mrs. Parseghian

Krikor Satamian

Mr. Parseghian

Jon Lindstrom

Peter

Patrick Fabian

Donald

Steve Schirripa

Vinnie (as Steven R. Schirripa)

Bess Wohl

Rebecca

Laura Kightlinger

Marcia

Rubria Negrao

Sonia (as Rubria Martins-Negrao)

Suzy Nakamura

Mai

Jamie Denbo

Bertha

Miles Hull

Timmy

Amy Kidd

Jennifer

Ted Detwiler

Boat Guy

Kate McClafferty

Coxswain

Mary Castro

Stripper

Mary Anne McGarry

Older Woman (scenes deleted)

Michelle Fabiano

Bill Jr.'s Wife (uncredited)

Darrell Geer

Man in Canoe (uncredited)

Trevor Stevens

Ryan (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The dog "Mother Theresa" was played by two 6-month old Newfoundland puppies named Molly (who did most of the work) and Maeve (who performed the water scene). Director Gary David Goldberg adopted both puppies at the end of filming.

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According to director Gary David Goldberg, he gave the script to John Cusack and encouraged him to change any of his character's dialogue to better suit him. Goldberg was surprised by Cusack's response, who later sent the director about 35 pages of new dialogue for his character.

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Gary David Goldberg's company mascot, UBU, is a Newfoundland - the same dog in the film. "Sit, Ubu, Sit. Good dog."

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Goofs

While at the meat counter in the grocery store, the butcher announces that the special is whole fryers. "Two breasts, two thighs and a wing." Aside from the fact that a whole fryer has more parts, do they really mean only a wing? Are these mutant chickens?

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When Bobby joins the group and they sing "Come On, Get Happy", Bobby starts playing the piano while they're singing, but the instrument he's playing on is actually an organ and not a piano.

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When Sarah is surfing the internet, there are no cables connected to her iBook, so she should be using an airport wifi connection. But on the next scene, when we see a close up of the menu bar, the airport wifi icon shows the airport connection turned off.

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Quotes

Jake: You know, but I think your heart grows back bigger. You know? Once you get the shit beat out of you. And, um, the universe lets your heart expand that way, and I think that's the function of all this pain and heartache that you go through and you gotta go through that to come out to a better place and that's how I see it, anyway.

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Carol: Hello! Don't worry, it's just me. I'm in the kitchen. I filled your freezer again. There's now enough meat to feed every guy who answered your ad and still...

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Austin: [after getting a bloody nose in Sarah's class] Good Lord! It's a gusher!

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