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Overnight Delivery
Overnight Delivery
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Directed by	Jason Bloom
Written by	Steven Bloom; Marc Sedaka
Produced by	Dan Etheridge; Brad Krevoy; Steven Stabler
Starring	Reese Witherspoon; Paul Rudd; Christine Taylor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	April 7, 1998
Running time	87 minutes
Language	English

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Overnight Delivery is a 1998 romantic comedy film directed by Jason Bloom and written by Marc Sedaka, Steven Bloom, and Kevin Smith (uncredited). Exterior scenes were filmed in Saint Paul, Minnesota and at the University of St. Thomas.

Plot

Wyatt Trips (Paul Rudd) suspects his girlfriend Kimberly (Christine Taylor), who attends college across the country, is cheating on him. To exact revenge, Trips sends her an angry letter, a forged "used" condom, and a picture of him with his stripper friend Ivy (Reese Witherspoon) topless. After he discovers he was wrong about Kimberly's infidelity, he and Ivy go on a cross country trip to stop the letter from arriving at his Kimberly's dorm. Along the way, the two encounter a hostage situation, a psychotic delivery man, and a romance blossoming between them.

Cast

Paul Rudd as Wyatt Trips
Christine Taylor as Kimberly Jasney
Reese Witherspoon as Ivy Miller
Larry Drake as Hal Ipswich
Sarah Silverman as Turran
Stephen Yoakam as the SWAT Leader

Trivia

Joey Lauren Adams was originally going to skip out on her part in Chasing Amy to play Ivy in this movie, but she lost the part to Reese Witherspoon. Kevin Smith, Adams' boyfriend at the time, has a documented grudge against Witherspoon and cited a rumored incident during the movie shoot. [1]

According to reports, the original cut ran about 3 hours long

The 2000 film Road Trip has a similar plot.

In the scene when Ivy drove Paul Rudd's character, "Trips," to the airport, the building in which he was dropped off at is actually the Minneapolis Convention Center and not MSP International Airport.

External links

Overnight Delivery at IMDb

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-'''''Overnight Delivery''''' is a [[1998 in film|1998]] [[United States|American]] [[Film|movie]] directed by [[Jason Bloom (director)|Jason Bloom]]. It was written by [[Marc Sedaka]] and [[Steven Bloom]], but famed indie director [[Kevin Smith]] was hired to rewrite the script (uncredited). Exterior scenes were filmed in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] and at the [[University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)|University of St. Thomas]].
+'''''Overnight Delivery''''' is a [[1998 in film|1998]] [[romantic comedy film]] directed by [[Jason Bloom (director)|Jason Bloom]] and written by [[Marc Sedaka]], [[Steven Bloom]], and [[Kevin Smith]] (uncredited). Exterior scenes were filmed in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]] and at the [[University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)|University of St. Thomas]].
+==Plot==
-It's a romantic comedy about a man ([[Paul Rudd]]) who suspects his girlfriend (who's attending college across the country) is cheating on him. He sends her a letter along with a photo of a girl posing topless with him, and a "faked" used condom. Then after he's already mailed the letter to his girlfriend, he finds out she didn't really cheat on him. He and his stripper friend Ivy ([[Reese Witherspoon]]) go on a cross country trip to stop the letter from arriving at his girlfriend's dorm. Along the way he unexpectedly finds himself falling in love with Ivy instead.
+Wyatt Trips ([[Paul Rudd]]) suspects his girlfriend Kimberly ([[Christine Taylor]]), who attends college across the country, is cheating on him.  To exact revenge, Trips sends her an angry letter, a forged "used" condom, and a picture of him with his stripper friend Ivy ([[Reese Witherspoon]]) topless.  After he discovers he was wrong about Kimberly's infidelity, he and Ivy go on a cross country trip to stop the letter from arriving at his Kimberly's dorm. Along the way, the two encounter a hostage situation, a psychotic delivery man, and a romance blossoming between them.
 ==Cast==
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 ==Trivia==
 {{Trivia|date=December 2007}}
-[[Joey Lauren Adams]] was originally going to skip out on her part in ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' to play Ivy in this movie, but she lost the part to Reese Witherspoon. Adams' boyfriend at the time, Kevin Smith, (though uncredited) wrote the final script used in the movie. Smith and Reese Witherspoon were never on the best of terms.
+[[Joey Lauren Adams]] was originally going to skip out on her part in ''[[Chasing Amy]]'' to play Ivy in this movie, but she lost the part to Reese Witherspoon.  Kevin Smith, Adams' boyfriend at the time, has a documented grudge against Witherspoon and cited a rumored incident during the movie shoot. [http://www.viewaskew.com/press/psycomic/5.html]
 According to reports, the original cut ran about 3 hours long
 The [[2000]] film ''[[Road Trip]]'' has a similar plot.
-During the end sequence where Ivy (Reese Witherspoon) and Trips (Paul Rudd) are talking to each other, you can't hear what they're saying because of the background music. But this is their conversation, according to writer Kevin Smith [http://www.viewaskew.com/press/psycomic/5.html]:
-'''REESE:''' Who wrote this shit?
-'''PAUL:''' I think Kevin Smith.
-'''REESE:''' Ugh! Didn't he write ''[[Mallrats]]''?
-'''PAUL:''' Yeah, but he also wrote ''[[Clerks]]''.
-'''REESE:''' Who cares? No wonder this dialogue sucked.
 In the scene when Ivy drove Paul Rudd's character, "Trips," to the airport, the building in which he was dropped off at is actually the Minneapolis Convention Center and not MSP International Airport.