Talk:Rat Race (film)

Untitled
BTW Gloria Allred is an actual lawyer. You may spot her in the Scott Peterson case representing Amber Frey. 142.177.20.150 21:35, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Rewrite tag
The reason I added the tag is that the plot section is not written in an encyclopedic manner, and is largely built off of a summary copy/pasted from the IMDB summary page.--Drat (Talk) 08:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it should be completely rewritten. The film is pretty much six sub-plots following the six teams. Maybe reformat it. I'll see what I can do.- JustPhil 17:52, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

I think the summary is fine. Everything on the internet is copied from one place and pasted somewhere else. Plus it says all it needs to say. By the way, does anyone else notice that huge gap between the title, "Plot," and the actual text for that section? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.199.67.25 (talk • contribs).
 * The gap is due to the tag. Despite what you say above, plagiarism is not permitted on wikipedia.--Drat (Talk) 10:03, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Rowan Atkinson & Wayne Knight
If I recall correctly, Zach was just a very (un)lucky FedEx delivery man, not an ambulance driver as this article claims. Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 06:40, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * He was working for a organ deliver service —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 144.35.254.252 (talk) 20:30, 9 February 2007 (UTC).

Cast in own section
Cast has to move from the infobox to its own section. If possible reduce infobox stars to 4 (max.) Hoverfish|Talk 08:34, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Rat Race.jpg
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=Copied from Talk:Rat Race (2001 film)=

9/11 connection
Moved from the "Details" section:


 * *9/11 occurred three weeks into the film's run, so a humorous scene in the first 15 minutes or so of the players running down a casino hotel emergency stairwell instead disgusted movie goers; the film was then pulled from distribution.

I couldn't find any evidence backing up this claim. Rat Race's weekend gross as outlined on IMDB doesn't show signs of a sudden drop-off or backlash against the film after 9/11. I couldn't find any news reports mentioning disgusted viewers, either, and according to IMDB the film was shown in US theatres until December 2001. Are there any sources for this? --Baumi (talk) 14:45, 30 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that sounds like hogwash.
 * I don't think anyone made that connection, especially since the movie came out BEFORE 9/11, and was so popular that it was in big theaters well into 2002, and in some smaller theaters into 2003. 74.12.2.136 (talk) 16:55, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Rat Race Theme Song Rap
Someone find out what is actually being said in the Rap Section of the Rat Race Theme and Post it. No, Really.

"Who put the Hats on (in) the Rats in the Race?...." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.9.83 (talk) 03:31, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Allusions, connections, notes
I tried to eliminate the superfluous details in both the "Allusions and Connections" and "Production Notes" sections, but I suggest both sections be completely removed. None of them have citations and they seem to contain meaningless trivia. Anyone else agree? Disagree? Cactusjump (talk) 23:28, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Page's title?
Seeing as an page exists already with the title rat race shouldn't this page be renamed rat_race_(film) it may be viewed at the following link if you don't believe me. #REDIRECT [] Chaos samurai (talk) 18:59, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Agree- I've moved it to "Rat Race (2001 film)" to avoid (hopefully) any possible confusion with the "The Rat Race" a 1960 film  MB-907 (talk) 11:13, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Quick update- Hopefully I've covered all the internal links to this page to avoid readers being redirected to the general "rat race" page. MB-907 (talk) 12:54, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Drinking game
I assume no one is watching this page (seriously who remembers this movie) but I noticed the Critical Reception mentions people making a drinking game based on this movie, and betting drinks on the outcome...and then cites Metacritic? I sincerely doubt this ever existed outside the single person who wrote that, so I'm going to delete it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.187.34.42 (talk) 04:02, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Steve Martin as air traffic controller.
The ATC is clearly NOT Steve Martin, and IMDB credits the role to Kevin Rothery, who admittedly does look vaguely like Martin, but is very clearly a totally different person. I've updated the article to correct this.74.12.2.136 (talk) 16:58, 20 July 2023 (UTC)