FILM · 2009 · USA
Everybody's Fine
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- #001
This is the second film in which Lily Mo Sheen played her real-life mother Kate Beckinsale as a young girl; the first was Underworld: Evolution (2006).
- #002
It is a remake of Everybody's Fine (1990), in which Marcello Mastroianni played the role of Robert De Niro.
- #003
Bradley Cooper taped himself to audition for the role of Robert De Niro's son, with his own mother playing De Niro's part. He lost the role to Sam Rockwell.
- #004
As Rosie (Drew Barrymore) and Frank (Robert De Niro) eat dinner together, a large metal mask with two long rabbit ears hangs on the wall just behind the open door. It is the rabbit Frank mask from Donnie Darko (2001); Barrymore was one of the producers.
- #005
Throughout the film, Frank (Robert De Niro), who makes his living from telephone cables, uses a landline telephone (a payphone, etc.), while all of his children use mobile (cordless) phones.
- #006
Filming took place in Connecticut and New York City, including several scenes shot at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
- #007
Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore appeared together in Charlie's Angels (2000) and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).
- #008
In The Intern (2015), Robert De Niro made telephone directories to earn a living.
- #009
Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell worked together in Snow Angels (2007) as a separated husband and wife.
- #010
At the Las Vegas airport, Robert De Niro says "Be good" to Drew Barrymore as he bids her farewell. This is most likely a reference to her line in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
- #011
On the train, Frank sits down next to Alice, and Alice tells him that her name is Greek and means its true meaning. This is incorrect: the name is actually French, derived from the Old French name Alis (older Alais), a short form of Adelais, which comes from Old High German Adalhaidis, from the Proto-Germanic words *aþala-, meaning "noble", and *haidu-, meaning "appearance; kind" (compare German Adel "nobility", edel "noble", and the suffix -heit "-hood"), thus "of noble character or rank, of nobility". Today Greeks use the exact form of the word Alice, "alithis", meaning "truth".
- #012
Italian censorship visa # 103832 was issued on 8 November 2010.
- #013
The film's cast includes three Oscar winners: Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell and Melissa Leo.
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