Rachel over Tim?

I also was taken aback, but I believe precedence in a title can be in lieu of money, arranged by her agent. It's not your usual salary but you get top billing which means the next salary negotiated... They were both excellent in their portrayals. I remember Pena from Hamlet 2 where he played a modern dress Hamlet in Tucson Community College.

I miss Big Band music and talented singers. Leonard Cohen is my idol. Civility, harmony, unity!

Tim Robbins has had a more distinguished and lengthy career, but Rachel McAdams got pretty big after Mean Girls and Notebook, so as a "rising star" it doesn't surprise me she'd come first.