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1. #001

   Gene Hackman said in several interviews that he found making the film difficult and somewhat uncomfortable, because he was much older than everyone else. For that reason he kept much of it to himself, and ultimately managed to make use of the feeling of being outside the group when playing the character.

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2. #002

   The film was initially scheduled for release in June 2001. However, Paramount had already planned the premiere of The Score (2001) for July. Since both films shared a similar premise, Warner Bros. rescheduled the film for a later premiere date to avoid competition. Coincidentally, the film's premiere took place in November 2001, the same month The Score (2001) was released on DVD.

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3. #003

   Actress Rebecca Pidgeon and writer-director David Mamet are married.

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4. #004

   The compact pistol Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) hides in his coffee is a Baby Browning .25 caliber. It is 4 inches long, 2 3/4 inches high and 3/4 of an inch thick.

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5. #005

   In the radio announcer's voice at the beginning of the film, the term "gapers' block" can be heard. This is a common regional term in the Chicago area for slowing down or rubbernecking to look at an accident while driving. Although the film is not set in Chicago, writer/director David Mamet comes from there.

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6. #006

   This film happened to be shot in Quebec in the summer of 2000, at almost the same time as The Score (2001), which starred Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando. The Score was to be shot mostly in Montreal, like this film, but also in New Hampshire, not far from the Canadian border.

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7. #007

   This is the first of two films David Mamet would write and direct for "Franchise Pictures" in the 2000s. The second would be the critically acclaimed Spartan (2004), starring Val Kilmer.

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8. #008

   The film features two Oscar winners, Gene Hackman and Sam Rockwell, and three Oscar nominees, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo and David Mamet.

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9. #009

   Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo and Danny DeVito appeared in Get Shorty (1995), in which everyone except Lindo and DeVito shared screen time with one another.

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10. #010

    The PanGeneve cargo plane is a Boeing 727. Some of the 727s produced between the early 1960s and 1984 are still used by cargo and charter air service providers.

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11. #011

    Owen Wilson was considered for the role of 'Jimmy Silk'.

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12. #012

    This is the fourth consecutive film David Mamet's wife Rebecca Pidgeon has appeared in for him. The others include The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Winslow Boy (1999) and State and Main (2000). This film would be the last she appeared in for him until Redbelt (2008), which Mamet also wrote and directed.

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13. #013

    Almost the entire film was shot in Quebec, Canada.

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14. #014

    Danny DeVito and Patti LuPone had appeared together 15 years earlier in Wise Guys (1986).

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15. #015

    Danny DeVito and Gene Hackman personified two of "DC Comics"' greatest criminals on film: DeVito was the Penguin in Batman Returns (1992), and Gene Hackman played Lex Luthor in Superman (1978), Superman II (1980) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).

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16. #016

    Gene Hackman gets into a taxi at the 14th minute of the film. The taxi is marked "Cape Ann Taxi" with the phone number 617-187-0156. The 617 area code is that of the Boston metropolitan area.

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