What Happens in Vegas
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Release date: May 9, 2008
Set in Sin City, storyline revolves around two strangers who wake up to discover they got married sometime during the previous night’s drunken festivities, with one of them winning a huge jackpot on the other’s quarter. The couple set out to undermine each other and claim the coin, only to fall in love along the way.
Directed by: Tom Vaughan
Screenplay by: Dana Fox
Produced by: Michael Aguilar, Shawn Levy, Jimmy Miller
Cast: Cameron Diaz … Joy McNally

Ashton Kutcher … Jack Fuller

Lake Bell … Tipper

Rob Corddry … Hater

Queen Latifah … Dr. Twitchell

World premiere: April 22, 2008 in London, England
Budget: $35 million
Box office: $80,277,646 (USA), $219,375,797 (worldwide)

Movie Quotes

Tipper: You know what? I can get a couple of my brother’s loser ass friends to go over to Mason’s apartment , knock on the door and when he opens it wham! They’ll junk-punch him all up in his man business and he’ll fall to the floor whaling and crying “why?” and then we’ll say “you know why!”
Joy McNally: Wow! Did you just make that up?
Tipper: No, I thought about it a lot on the way over.

Jack Fuller: How hard can it be?
Joy McNally: I know how hard it isn’t.

Chong: Be whoever you want to be, you’ll still gonna be my subordinate.
Joy McNally: Excuse me?
Chong: It’s from the Latin, meaning “my bitch.”

Chong: I eat girls like you.
Joy McNally: You eat girls?
Chong: That’s not what I me…
Joy McNally: No, makes sense.
Chong: No! I’m not…
Joy McNally: Totally understandable.

Joy McNally: That’s just the topping I wanted on my popcorn. I know the box said its movie theater butter, but you guessed it. What I really wanted was Jack’s Sweaty ballsack flavor!
Jack Fuller: I’m just giving you what you want, baby.

Production Notes

Cameron Diaz thinks the film’s title evokes quite the vivid scenario. “Vegas is a 24-hour city,” she says, “you can’t tell what time it is, you don’t know how much money you’ve spent, how much you’ve drunk, how much you’ve slept, and so on. There’s kind of a built in safety net, though–because anything is possible in Vegas, you’re given the permission to basically do anything there that you’d probably never do anyplace else at any other time in your life.”

Diaz and Kutcher were both excited by the chance to bring the film’s kicky “what if” scenario to life. “I loved the script’s ‘grass is always greener’ theme,” confirms Diaz. “People in relationships often think their single friends are the lucky ones, while the singles just want to be in a relationship. In life, it’s ultimately about finding your own happiness. It’s not enough to be happy just because you’re in a relationship; first you need to be happy with yourself. That’s something I think my character Joy learns the hard way.”

Awards and Nominations

Nominated – Razzie Award – Worst Actress
Nominated – Razzie Award – Worst Screen Couple (shared with Ashton Kutcher)
Nominated – Teen Choice Award – Choice Movie Actress Comedy