FILM · 1995 · USA
Now and Then
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- #001
In the scene where Chrissy punches Roberta in the face for faking a drowning, Christina Ricci forgot to turn her head and was hit full-force in the face. Ricci was seriously injured, and production was shut down for several days.
- #002
Christina Ricci and Gaby Hoffmann are very good friends in real life.
- #003
The young girl who plays Samantha's sister Angela is Demi Moore's real-life daughter, Rumer Willis.
- #004
This is one of two films released in 1995 in which Christina Ricci played Devon Sawa's love interest. The other is Casper (1995), in which he played Casper in human form.
- #005
In a 2023 interview with Jesse Thorn on the National Public Radio program Bullseye, conducted by Jordan Crucchiola, Christina Ricci said that the last time she watched Now and Then, it was completely clear through a few lines of dialogue that her character Roberta is a lesbian. Ricci also said that until 2022, when she did a joint Vanity Fair interview with Gaby Hoffmann and Hoffmann told her about it, she had no idea that this aspect of the character had been cut from the film.
- #006
The scenes in which the girls hold a carnival to raise money for their clubhouse were cut from the film. This scene (and photos from the film) were included in the novelization of the film. The scene included Samantha telling fortunes and telling Morton, a nerdy boy with glasses, that he would one day marry Chrissy. Because of this, later in the film, during the baseball game, the boy tries to talk to an uninterested Chrissy ("Hello, dear"); and we see Samantha whispering something to Teeny, making the two girls giggle (Sam was clearly telling Teeny what happened at the carnival). But as we see in the scenes where the girls are adults, Chrissy does indeed marry Morton.
- #007
As adult Chrissy flips through the front cover of a "People" magazine with Teeny's name on it, a smaller headline above reads "Linda Richman tells all in new autobiography!" alongside a photo of someone dressed like Mike Myers's famous Saturday Night Live (1975) character. Demi Moore and Suzanne Todd would later produce the Austin Powers film series starring Myers.
- #008
The movie with cars that Teeny watches with Sam before they try the treehouse is Love Story (1970).
- #009
The film was actually written about a town in Indiana called Winchester and its gas lamp attachment. The story's writer, I. Marlene King, and director Robert Wise grew up there in very different years. Winchester refused to have its name associated with the film, so the name became Shelby, but later Winchester began preserving the areas mentioned in the film.
- #010
Rita Wilson, Rosie O'Donnell and Gaby Hoffmann had previously appeared together in Sleepless in Seattle (1993).
- #011
Chrissy swears only once in the entire film, and it is while giving birth in the hospital.
- #012
Whenever the girls play truth or dare, they always choose truth.
- #013
The tarot cards used by Wiladene are the Five of Swords, the High Priestess, Death, the Page of Swords and the Ten of Swords. The exact interpretation is unknown.
- #014
Christina Ricci, Gaby Hoffmann and Janeane Garofalo appeared together four years later in 200 Cigarettes (1999).
- #015
Ashleigh Aston Moore and Christina Ricci also worked together the same year on Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995).
- #016
This is Rumer Willis's debut.
- #017
The film's cast includes two Oscar winners, Brendan Fraser and Cloris Leachman, and two nominees, Melanie Griffith and Demi Moore.
- #018
This is Haviland Stillwell's debut.
- #019
Roberts Blossom was considered for the role of Crazy Pete.
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