DIRECTED BY: Nancy Meyers
WRITTEN BY: Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa
MEL GIBSON AS: Nick Marshall
GENRE: Romance, Comedy, Fantasy
TAGLINES:
- He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally … a man is listening.
PLOT SUMMARY:
Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson), a Chicago advertising executive, gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke accident gives him the ability to read women’s minds. At first, this “gift” provides Nick with way too much information, but he begins to realize that he can use it to good effect, especially when it comes to outwitting his new boss, Darcy Maguire. In spite of his best efforts to finesse Darcy, he soon finds himself falling in love and truly understanding what women want. –Yahoo! Movies
RELEASE DATES:
2000 December 13 (United States Premiere)
2000 December 15 (United States)
2001 January 5 (Greece)
2001 January 8 (Australia)
2001 January 11 (New Zealand)
2001 January 13 (South Korea)
2001 January 18 (Argentina)
2001 January 20 (Taiwan)
2001 January 24 (Singapore)
2001 January 27 (Japan)
2001 February 2 (United Kingdom)
2001 February 8 (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Netherlands, Peru)
2001 February 9 (Italy)
2001 February 14 (Belgium, France)
2001 February 15 (Germany, Switzerland)
2001 February 16 (Iceland)
2001 February 23 (Turkey)
2001 March 8 (Czech Republic)
2001 March 9 (Brazil, Lithuania)
2001 March 16 (Denmark, Spain)
2001 March 23 (Sweden)
2001 March 29 (Hungary)
2001 March 30 (Finland)
2001 April 6 (Norway)
2001 April 13 (Estonia)
2001 April 19 (Israel)
2001 April 25 (Egypt)
2001 May 18 (India)
BOX OFFICE GROSS:
United States: $182,811,707
International $191,300,000
FILMING LOCATIONS:
Los Angeles, California and Chicago Illinois, USA.
TRIVIA:
- Morgan tells Nick (Mel Gibson) that he “sounds like the guy from Shine (1996).” Geoffrey Rush, the actor in Shine (1996), was Mel Gibson’s roommate in the 80s in Australia.
- Nick Marshall’s two assistants, played by Delta Burke and Valerie Perrine, are named Eve and Margo, a reference to Eve Harrington and Margo Channing, the two main characters in Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve (1950).
- The scene towards the end in which Nick (Mel Gibson) visits Darcy (Helen Hunt) at her apartment is similar to a scene in As Good as It Gets (1997). In both movies Helen Hunt’s character is at the top of the stairs and her love interest (Mel Gibson/Jack Nicholson) approaches her and says, “I had to see you.”
- In the bathroom scene, when Nick falls into the bathtub and nearly electrocutes himself, there’s Swedish ad-poster on the wall. The text (HÃĪrligt efter rakning) means “Wonderful after shaving”.
- The Nike representatives are in fact the real Nike ad representatives and not actresses.
- The poem that Nick (Mel Gibson) starts reciting in order to keep from hearing his daughter’s thoughts when he walk in on her and her boyfriend is “Casey At The Bat” written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in 1888.
- The ad agencies are loosely based around the Chicago agency Leo Burnett and the New York agency BBDO.
- Mel Gibson’s character works at Sloane Curtis Advertising, the same advertising agency ‘Diane Keaton (I)’ ’s character is fired from in Baby Boom (1987).
- When Nick Marshall asks his assistants, Eve and Margo, if they know anything about Erin the file girl, Margo refers to her as “Mrs. Lonelyheart”. This is an homage to the suicidal character in ‘Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rear Window (1954), made in 1954.
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