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Without a Paddle (2004)

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• This movie is the first to qualify for the New Zealand Government's "Large Budget Grants Scheme" where the film-makers will receive up to 12.5% of their production budget back.
  
  
• Most of the outdoor camping scenes were shot inside a very large warehouse.
  
  
• The character of "D.B. Cooper" is based on an actual person, who in 1971, after hijacking an airliner, extorted $200,000 from its owner, Northwest Orient, and leaped off the airborne plane with 21 pounds of $20 bills strapped to his body. He was never caught.
  
  

• Dan's cellphone ringtone is the famous 'adventure' crescendo from the Indiana Jones series.
  
  
• The last big rapid that they run before going over the waterfall is a Class 5 rapid, and the scene was performed by stunt doubles since running rapids in a canoe is dangerous and unusual.
  
  
• Dax Shepard, Seth Green, and Matthew Lillard all did a majority of their own stunts.
  
  

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