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FILM · 2004 · USA

Speak

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11 Interesting Facts About Speak

  1. #001

    "Sordino," Melinda's surname, means "muted."

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  2. #002

    The author of the novel appears as the cafeteria worker who slops mashed potatoes with a spoon on the first day of school.

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  3. #005

    Every year the film is shown to new theater students at Eastmoor Academy. The drama teacher (an extra in the film) invites the students to find the closet where Melinda hid. However, the school has so many locked doors and corridors that some have not been found since the film's release.

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  4. #006

    It was Kristen Stewart's first Sundance Film Festival selection.

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  5. #007

    Most of the real teachers at the school were extras in the film.

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  6. #008

    Filming was temporarily halted at the school where some scenes were shot because of flooding, particularly during an intense summer rainstorm.

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  7. #009

    It was filmed from August 1 to August 31, 2003.

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  8. #011

    Robert John Burke also had a role playing Tucker on Law & Order: SVU.

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  9. #012

    Steve Zahn (Mr. Freeman) and Hallee Hirsh (Rachel Bruin) appeared together in the 1998 film "You've Got Mail."

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  10. #013

    Robert John Burke (Mr. Neck) played the stepfather of Eric Lively's (Andy Evans) real-life sister on the television series Gossip Girl.

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  11. #014

    It was Caitlyn Folley's debut.

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