FILM · 1994 · USA
Nobody's Fool
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- #001
Bruce Willis reportedly accepted a significant pay cut to appear in the film, agreeing to the SAG-AFTRA scale of $1,400 a week at a time when the actor was earning roughly $15 million from his action films.
- #002
The film was shot during the brutal New York winter of 1993/1994. The towns of Beacon and Poughkeepsie took a beating, as can be seen from the snow throughout the film.
- #003
This was Jessica Tandy's final role.
- #004
Bruce Willis was initially left out of the film's marketing because of his reputation as an action star.
- #005
Paul Newman and Bruce Willis appeared together in The Verdict (1982), in which Willis was not credited in the extra titles. Newman received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role for both films, and both were adapted from novels.
- #006
The cast includes three Oscar winners — Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy and Philip Seymour Hoffman — and one Oscar nominee, Melanie Griffith.
- #007
A scene of the funeral procession in a limousine was originally planned. It was cut because the cinematographer and his crew could not light the interior of the limousine to the desired level.
- #008
Paul Newman's character in the film is 60 years old, while Newman himself was 70 when the film was released.
- #009
Director Robert Benton wanted Kim Basinger for the role of Toby, Nick Nolte for the role of Carl and Jeff Bridges for the role of Peter Sullivan.
- #010
Paul Newman and Philip Seymour Hoffman also appeared together in Empire Falls (2005), likewise adapted from a novel written by Richard Russo.
- #011
The fresh flower arrangements ordered for Hattie's funeral froze twice during shooting at St. Luke's cemetery before artificial flowers were used in their place.
- #012
Sully's rusting red pickup is a 1977 Ford F-100 with a 1973 front end. When his son comes to town, he is driving a 1984 Plymouth Horizon.
- #013
After the film Nadine (1987), director Robert Benton said he very much wanted to work with Kim Basinger again and offered her the role of Toby in this film. She was unable to fit it into her schedule. He said he would find a way to work with her again one day.
- #014
A brief excerpt is shown from the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Miami Dolphins and the Dallas Cowboys on November 25, 1993. In the scene, Miami RB Keith Byars scores a 77-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. It would be the last game Dallas would lose that season. The following January they went on to win Super Bowl XXVIII.
- #015
The shooting of Bruce Willis's role took only 22 days.
- #016
This was the second pairing of Paul Newman and Melanie Griffith; the first was The Drowning Pool (1975).
- #017
Jessica Tandy worked with Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith's mother, on Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
- #018
Josef Sommer and Paul Newman had previously appeared together in Absence of Malice (1981).
- #019
This was Angelica Page's first film appearance. The daughter of Rip Torn, she is listed in the credits as Angelica Torn.
- #020
Robert Benton and Richard Russo also wrote Twilight (1998), which starred Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon and Margo Martindale.
- #021
Alfred Hitchcock directed Jessica Tandy in The Birds (1963), Paul Newman in Torn Curtain (1966), and Tippi Hedren, the mother of Melanie Griffith, in The Birds and Marnie (1964).
- #022
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Philip Bosco would go on to appear in The Savages (2007).
- #023
Melanie Griffith and Philip Bosco appeared together in Working Girl (1988).
- #024
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Alice Drummond later appeared together in Doubt (2008).
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