When Dominic (Michael Ealy) talks to the guys about the movie Les couleurs du destin (2010), he says the psycho drops his kids out of the window. Ealy played the character who did just that in the movie.
From their first interaction, it is established that Michael (Terrence Jenkins) is younger than Candace (Regina Hall), but likely no more than four years younger, seeing as they attended high school at the same time, with Candace graduating first. In real life, Jenkins is eleven years younger than Hall, who were 30 and 41 years old respectively when the movie was released.
With a budget of $12 million, the film was director Tim Story's smallest production since Barbershop (2002). Story had previously worked on the highly-expensive Les 4 Fantastiques (2005) films.
Although the white male character of Bennett is profiled as white collar and frank about racial topics, even when his comments may seem racially offensive, he has a wife whom is black. She is seen briefly twice toward the end of the movie, and she is the only female associated with any of the male characters who has no speaking lines.
Prior to starting acting careers, Steve Harvey, Kevin Hart and Gary Owen began as stand-up comics.