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FILM · 2009 · USA

Everybody's Fine

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  1. #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).

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  2. #002

    It is a remake of Everybody's Fine (1990), in which Marcello Mastroianni played the role of Robert De Niro.

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  3. #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.

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  4. #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.

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  5. #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.

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  6. #006

    Filming took place in Connecticut and New York City, including several scenes shot at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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  7. #007

    Sam Rockwell and Drew Barrymore appeared together in Charlie's Angels (2000) and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).

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  8. #008

    In The Intern (2015), Robert De Niro made telephone directories to earn a living.

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  9. #009

    Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell worked together in Snow Angels (2007) as a separated husband and wife.

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  10. #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).

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  11. #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".

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  12. #012

    Italian censorship visa # 103832 was issued on 8 November 2010.

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  13. #013

    The film's cast includes three Oscar winners: Robert De Niro, Sam Rockwell and Melissa Leo.

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