Overnight Delivery

Overnight Delivery (1998)

They've got 24 hours to stop a package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love.

A man suspects his girlfriend of being unfaithful, so he sends her a letter, but then finds out that he was wrong. He has 24 hours to stop the package, prevent a disaster, and fall in love. The only problem is the delivery man will not stop until the package has been delivered.

Date of release
1998-04-07
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (105)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Comedy, Romance
Director
Jason Bloom

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Minnesota

Overnight Delivery is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed by Jason Bloom. It stars Paul Rudd and Reese Witherspoon as a college student and a stripper who take a road trip across America to retrieve a package that had been impulsively sent to a girlfriend. It was filmed on location in Minnesota in 1996. It was released direct-to-video by New Line Home Video on April 7, 1998.

Production

In November 1993, Joe Roth's Caravan Pictures bought the spec script by Marc Sedaka for $125,000 against $300,000 beating out a bid by 20th Century Fox.

The film was written by Marc Sedaka and Steven Bloom. Kevin Smith worked on an early draft of the script, in what he called an uncredited rewrite. The film was directed by Jason Bloom; this was his second film, his first being Bio-Dome. The producers include Roger Birbaum and Bradley Tenkel, and the production companies are the MPCA and Caravan Pictures. The film cost $10 million to produce and an extra $10 million was spent on advertising.

Joey Lauren Adams was considered for the part of Ivy, and was going to skip out on her role in Chasing Amy, but she lost the part to Reese Witherspoon.

The entire film was shot in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. Exterior scenes were filmed in Minneapolis, Saint Paul and rural Minnesota. The film included landmarks such as Ground Zero nightclub, used as the strip club, Minneapolis Convention Center as the airport, the Stillwater Lift Bridge, and University of St. Thomas as The University of Memphis. The Embassy Suites Bloomington West was used as The University of Memphis dormitory.

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