The Hangover (2009) on Netflix
Two days before his wedding, Doug Billings travels to Las Vegas with Phil Wenneck, Stu Price and Alan Garner. The three wake with no memory of that night and Doug is gone.
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Plot summary
Doug Billings is two days from marrying Tracy Garner, so he drives to Las Vegas with his friends Phil Wenneck and Stu Price and with Tracy's brother Alan Garner, who are all in the wedding party. Sid, Tracy's father, lends them his vintage Mercedes. The four book a suite at Caesars Palace. Stu, a dentist, has told his girlfriend Melissa that he is on a wine tasting trip in Napa Valley. That night the men drink on the hotel roof. Phil, Stu and Alan wake the next morning with no memory of the hours before. Doug is gone, Stu's tooth is missing, the suite is wrecked, a Bengal tiger stands in the bathroom and a baby sits in the closet. They have hours left before the wedding.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Hangover (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The premise came from something that happened to producer Tripp Vinson, a friend of executive producer Chris Bender: he vanished from his own Las Vegas bachelor party, blacked out and came round in a strip club facing an enormous bill.
- Warner Bros. paid Jon Lucas and Scott Moore over 2 million dollars for the original script, which had none of the film's best-known material; Mike Tyson and his tiger, the baby and the police cruiser were added when Jeremy Garelick and director Todd Phillips rewrote it.
- Stu's missing front tooth is not makeup. Ed Helms never grew an adult incisor and had worn a dental implant since he was a teenager; it was simply taken out for filming.
- Lindsay Lohan talked to Todd Phillips about playing Jade but was not cast, having been considered too young for what the two had discussed.
- Todd Phillips wanted to use a genuine Taser on his actors and was trying to talk them into it until Warner Bros. lawyers stepped in.
- The film became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever in the United States, taking a record off Beverly Hills Cop that had stood for almost 25 years, though adjusted for inflation it earned less than half what Beverly Hills Cop did.
- Caesars Palace was still living with the film four years on: staff were quoted the check-in lines "Did Caesar live here?" and "Do you know if the hotel is pager-friendly?", the gift shop sold tens of thousands of Hangover souvenirs, and Hangover slot machines spread across the Las Vegas Valley.
