- Acclaimed Flop: The film received positive reviews and an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, but only made $11.1 million on a $20 million budget. It just barely got out of a wide release with about 645 theaters playing it domestically. note
- Box Office Bomb: Budget, $20 million. Box office, $14,710,975. The first adaptation of any of Thomas Pynchon's works received generally positive reviews from critics, but divided reactions from audiences over its bizarre humor, leading many patrons to walk out.
- Creator Backlash: Reese Witherspoon doesn’t think about this highly. Other than going to the premiere, she did no interviews nor any promotion on her social media like she does her other films. She even requested Paul Thomas Anderson to limit her role after he was considering expanding her screentime.
- What Could Have Been:
- Initially Robert Downey Jr. was attached to play Doc, but dropped out in order to avoid Dawson Casting, feeling he was too old for the role.
- Jim Carrey and Michael Shannon were considered for Detective Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen.
- Charlize Theron was considered to play Shasta.
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