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The film was finalized in May 2009, but the crew reshot some shots in October 2009.
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The protagonist of the film is named Wally. This word also means "idiot, waste" in English. According to the description in the film, Wally is indeed a waste.
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The film is based on a short story by Jeffrey Kent Eugenides. The novel was rewritten into a screenplay by Allan Loeb in 2008, but it was blacklisted as the worst screenplay in the same year.
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The original name of the film was "Lubrication Tube", but the title was opposed by many women, and the producer had to change the title for this reason.
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Part of the film was inspired by the comedy movie "Surrogate Mother", but the director and screenwriter turned the story of two women together into a love triangle.
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The heroine Aniston has not been a mother in real life, so in the process of playing Casey, she received a lot of support and help from the director and actor Jason Bateman.
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The director had considered having other actors play the role of Wally, but due to their different schedules, the role was eventually played by Jason Bateman .
The Switch behind the scenes gags
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Extended Reading
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Sebastian: Nature is in crises. And only one mammal is to blame.
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Sebastian: I'm having a birthday party.
Wally Mars: Oh yeah? You enjoy that, there's gonna come a time in your life when you're not gonna want people to know it's your birthday.
Sebastian: Why wouldn't anyone want people to know about their birthday?
Wally Mars: Because getting old sucks. Most people don't accomplish what they'd hope to and they realize that they are most likely not going to. They end up living these quite lives of denial, and uh... brushing birthdays under the rug just becomes a part of that.
Sebastian: Do you ever get scared that you could have Parkinson's disease?
Wally Mars: Not specifically Parkinson's, But I'm not gonna lie, I've had my bouts with hypochondria.
Sebastian: What's that?
Wally Mars: That's thinking you have diseases that you don't really have.
Sebastian: Oh my God. I have that.