FILM · 2005 · GERMANY

Hide and Seek

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1. #001

   Famke Janssen is right-handed, but she holds the gun in her left hand in this film because she had used a gun before and thought she would look too comfortable holding it in her right hand.

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2. #002

   According to TIME Magazine, "Dakota Fanning reportedly took a pay cut from her million-dollar fee for Hide and Seek in order to have her name placed above the title, right next to Robert De Niro's."

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3. #003

   Famke Janssen said she would not have made this film if Robert De Niro had not been added.

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4. #004

   Dakota Fanning wore a brown wig instead of dyeing her hair.

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5. #005

   Auditions were held for the role of Emily because director John Polson hoped he could "find another Dakota Fanning." AnnaSophia Robb was among the promising candidates, but Dakota Fanning was ultimately cast.

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6. #006

   The line "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" is repeated by various characters throughout the film, including Robert De Niro's. The phrase is also a well-known quote from De Niro's character Max Cady in Cape Fear (1991).

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7. #007

   In 2004, director John Polson missed attending Tropfest, the short film festival he founded in 1993, for the first time since its inception because of his directing commitments on this film.

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8. #008

   (At about 1 hour 1 minute) The plush toy that Steven and his wife keep on the couch that once belonged to their deceased daughter (implied to have died of cancer) is an old Lisa Frank "Fantastic Beans" Plush Beanie "Buzz" Rainbow Bumble Bee sold in the late 1990s. Because the toy was common for young American girls in the late 1990s and early 2000s and was often sold in hospital gift shops, it is used to suggest that Steven and his wife lost their daughter very recently. The toy is no longer produced and is considered rare, but it can still be found secondhand on sites such as eBay and Etsy.

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9. #009

   The cast includes two Oscar winners, Robert De Niro and Melissa Leo, and two Oscar nominees, Elisabeth Shue and Amy Irving.

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