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| Robin Williams recorded most of his scenes in between filming breaks on Hook and Toys. | |
| 103 cars were wrecked during filming. At time of release, this was a world record. | |
| It is loosely based on 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri. Also, there are nine breaks in the movie to represent the nine rings of hell. | |
| Christopher Walken achieved the withdrawn, hollow look of his character by eating nothing but rice and bananas. | |
| The first film by Tim Burton to not feature Danny Elfman's music score. | |
| Although Frances McDormand's character is the film's central role, she does not appear on the screen until over 33 minutes into the film. | |
| The vault door used in the Fort Knox scene is now located in Bank Of The West in Los Altos, California. | |
| Joe Pesci's character is named after Orson Welles's character from the film The Third Man. | |
| As preparation for his role, Sean Penn visited L.A. Goal, a center in Los Angeles for Mentally Handicapped persons. | |
| Steven Spielberg named the shark 'Bruce' after his lawyer. | |
| For the shots of the airplanes taking off from the strip, the pilots were paid US$10 each. | |
| In the end, the pseudonym alias; 'Kelevra' which is Hebrew for 'bad dog' ties with Smith/Mr. Goodkat. | |
| Director Christopher Nolan chose a Jaguar as Leonard's car because the jaguar has the shortest memory of all the big cats in the animal kingdom. | |
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| Bette Davis complained about Max Steiner's Academy Award-winning musical score, saying that it was too intrusive on her performance. | |
| Father Brennan's quotation about the 'eternal sea' is completely non-Biblical, and was written for the movie. | |
| This is the third time Johnny Depp and James Russo work together on a film. | |
| Robert Redford claims that he spotted the real Charles Van Doren's acting while he was watching the show during his tenure at acting school. | |
| The sunglasses Joel wears are the Ray-Ban Wayfarer model. Annual sales of Wayfarers were languishing as of 1983 but skyrocketed 2000% after the movie's release. | |
| Mills and William Somerset discuss the book 'Of Human Bondage', which was written by W. Somerset Maugham. | |
| A little-known band in Manchester, UK have adopted the name of Eli and The Third Revelation in homage to the film. | |
| Stephen Baldwin was wary about joining the production as he was tired of taking part in independent films that turned out to be merely exploitative. | |
| Kim Novak hated wearing the important gray suit because it felt confining. However, she learned to make it work for her, as she saw it a symbol of Madeleine's character. | |
| Some of the main character's famous lines come from famous authors such as Shakespeare, Keats, Nash and Wilde | |
| This film is listed among the Top Ten Best Bad Films ever made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE MOVIE GUIDE. | |
| In the final battle, on a day he wasn't shooting, Emilio Estevez dressed as a bad guy and fought along with them. | |
| Twinkies really are called 'Submarinos' in Mexico. | |
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