When in costume Nick Frost and Simon Pegg often were assumed to be police officers. Many strangers asked them for directions and instead of telling the truth they went along with it.
Patrick Swayze was an accomplished skydiver, and took part in the big skydiving scene. He made 55 jumps in total.
The 'Brazilian Video' was shot with a household camcorder by M. Night Shyamalan himself.
The bass player, played by Ethan Embry, is never explicitly named. All references to him in the film are as, 'the bass player', and in the credits he is listed as 'T.B. Player.'
The use of caller ID increased more than threefold after the release of this film.
Harrison Ford was asked to cut his hair for the film. He refused, stating that his role was too short, and offered to wear a hat instead.
In 1942, when a ban on American films was imposed in German-occupied France, many theaters chose this film for their last movie before the ban went into effect.
In the 'road-tarring' sequence, the actors actually blacktopped a mile-long stretch of highway for the county.
Songs take up twenty-five minutes of the film and only five minutes are without any musical score at all.
Robert Patrick trained in a rigorous running regimen in order to be able to appear to run at high speeds without showing fatigue on film.
One scene in the film depicts a brick thrown through Coach Boone's window. In real-life, it was an old toilet that was thrown, but filmmakers thought that would add humor to the serious situation.
There are 110 spaces that the characters must progress to finish the board game.
The language used by the aliens (clicking sounds) was created by rubbing a pumpkin.
One crew member was hired specifically to knit miniature sweaters and other clothing for the puppet characters, using knitting needles as thin as human hair.
Despite being their sixth collaboration as actor and director, this is the first time that Samuel L. Jackson received top billing in a film directed by Quentin Tarantino.
When Paul Rudd told his nine-year-old son he was going to be [title character], his son said, 'Wow, I can't wait to see how stupid that'll be.'
The results of Eagles and Phillies games mentioned in the movie are all real and all took place in 2008.
Although Homer is given a co-writing credit on the film, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen claim never to have read 'The Odyssey' and are familiar with it only through cultural osmosis and film adaptations.
Newt's gray and yellow scarf that he wears in the film's last scene, as well as in promotional materials, is an allusion to the fact that he was in Hufflepuff while attending Hogwarts.
When [title character] sings 'Reflection' in her father's shrine, the writing on the temple stones is the names of the Disney animators who worked on the film, written in ancient Chinese.
The 1984 shareholder meeting and product launch was replicated at the original location, the Flint Center of De Anza Community College in Cupertino, California.
The film was shot in reverse order. Al Pacino began with long hair and a beard, then for each scene, his hair and beard were trimmed bit by bit until he became clean-cut.
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