FILM · 2000
Keeping the Faith
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- #001
The businessman Casanova in the office across the street is played by Jenna Elfman's husband, Bodhi Elfman.
- #002
Keeping the Faith is Edward Norton's directorial debut.
- #003
Edward Norton turned down the lead role in U-571 (2000) in order to make his directorial debut.
- #004
It is the first film starring Edward Norton that was not rated R.
- #005
Edward Norton directs a feature film for the first time; it would be 19 years before he directed another feature, Motherless Brooklyn (2019).
- #006
Edward Norton had previously been directed by Miloš Forman in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996). In return, Forman appears as an actor in this film, which Norton directed.
- #007
When Jake and Anna go to the movies, they say they are going to see a "García's film," referring to Andy Garcia, and the film is When a Man Loves a Woman (1994).
- #008
Stuart Blumberg, the film's producer and writer, plays Anna's co-worker Len.
- #009
While young Brian teaches young Jake the correct way to make the sign of the cross, Brian is seen consistently making the correct cross, but Jake makes several wrong shapes, the last of which is John Lennon's famous self-portrait.
- #010
In the airport scene where limousine drivers hold up signs bearing the names of the people they are waiting for, one sign reads "S Blumberg." This is the name of the film's writer, Stuart Blumberg.
- #011
The scene in which the young characters run in the park is a reworking of a scene from Jules and Jim (1962), another love-triangle film.
- #012
It was among the 400 films nominated for the American Film Institute's 2002 list of the 100 greatest American love stories.
- #013
When Jake invites the gospel choir to the synagogue, Brian's first reaction is to smile and then to say the F word.
- #014
Composer Elmer Bernstein was hired because of the enthusiastic recommendation to Edward Norton from the film's editor, Malcolm Campbell, with whom he had worked while Campbell was the main editor on John Landis's films, for which Bernstein had composed the music for ten or more years. Those films include An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Michael Jackson's Thriller, Spies Like Us and ¡Three Amigos! Campbell was an assistant editor when he and Bernstein first collaborated on National Lampoon's Animal House, and also on The Blues Brothers, for which Bernstein provided the very short "God Music." Bernstein was not involved in Twilight Zone: The Movie, for which Campbell edited Landis's segment, because the film's music was composed by the late Jerry Goldsmith.
- #015
It is Blythe Auffarth's debut.
- #016
Jenna Elfman, Rena Sofer and Holland Taylor all appeared in the sitcom Two and a Half Men.
- #017
It is Edward Norton's second film set in a religious environment. The first was Primal Fear (1996).
- #018
It is Dagmara Dominczyk's debut.
- #019
It is Jessica Prince's debut.
- #020
Ben Stiller, who is Jewish in real life, seems quite fitting to play a rabbi.
- #021
The Italian censorship visa # 94768 was issued on September 12, 2000.
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