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10. Wedding Crashers Inspired A Woman To Poison Her Fiancé

A raucous comedy like Wedding Crashers isn't exactly the kind of movie you'd think would inspire an attempted murder, and yet, that's exactly what happened in a 2019 incident.

In June of that year, a North Carolina woman was arrested after spiking her fiancé's soda with eye drops, all in an effort to gain sole custody of their daughter. The woman told the authorities that she got the idea directly from Wedding Crashers, which contains a scene where Owen Wilson's character pulls a similar stunt.

The movie obviously plays this sequence for laughs, with the victim merely falling ill. But in reality, the consequences would've been far more severe - possibly even fatal - if the woman's fiancé had actually downed the deadly concoction.

Fortunately though, he caught her in the act, and immediately dialled 911 after locking himself - and his daughter - in the bathroom.