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CIA partners FDR Foster and Tuck Hansen are taken off field work and given desk jobs in Los Angeles after an operation in Hong Kong goes wrong and a criminal, Karl Heinrich, swears revenge on them. Tuck is divorced and raising his young son Joe, and he signs up for online dating, where he is matched with Lauren Scott, an executive at a company that tests consumer products. Her friend Trish signed her up. FDR gets himself into one of Lauren's test groups and talks her into a date. When the two men find out that they are both seeing Lauren, neither will step aside, so they agree to keep the arrangement from her and let her decide between them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about This Means War (2012)
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- The script for This Means War sat in development for roughly a decade, during which Bradley Cooper, Seth Rogen and Sam Worthington all reportedly turned down the lead role, and, further back, Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock had also passed on it.
- The film was initially handed an R rating by the MPAA over sex jokes from Chelsea Handler's character, and even after 20th Century Fox appealed, the board held firm, forcing an edited version to be resubmitted to get the PG-13 it was released with.
- 20th Century Fox pushed the release date back from Valentine's Day to February 17, 2012, specifically to dodge a head-on clash with Screen Gems' The Vow, which was expected to dominate the holiday box office.
- Screenwriter Larry Doyle claimed to have read the script back in 1998, and said that in that draft the protagonists were video game designers with access to guided missiles.
- Tom Hardy and Chris Pine were signed on to play the two male leads in July after Bradley Cooper dropped out of the project due to scheduling conflicts.
