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A bit of an inside joke... (with small spoiler)

posted 9 years ago by john in missouri
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The actress who (very briefly) plays Dodge Petersen's wife Linda -- and who leaves him in the opening scene -- is Steve Carrell's real-life wife, Nancy Carrell.

At the time the film was made, they'd been married 16 or 17 years.

[–] KeeblerMeg 8 years ago

Perhaps Hollywood has made me jaded, but I totally expected (spoiler alert) for the asteroid to miss Earth, and our main characters to awake the next day to news that the meteorite had actually missed it'd mark, and all was well. *shrug*