After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star. Six months on, he's still not doing very well— so a few of his friends try to reconnect him to the social scene and hopefully help him forget his failed relationship.
Acting
Vaughn's breakout — Trent Walker is cinema's greatest wingman.
Writing
Favreau's script mines heartbreak for painfully relatable laughs.
Direction
Liman's guerrilla shooting gives LA that sweaty, alive glow.
Director
Doug Liman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Favreau wrote the script in two weeks based on his own breakup, and the $250,000 budget meant they shot without permits — the swing club scene is real patrons who didn't know they were in a movie.
This single-handedly revived swing music and '60s cocktail culture in the late '90s, plus launched the careers of Favreau, Vaughn, and director Doug Liman.
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