The Dead Girl

When Ruth (Mary Beth Hurt) goes to burn all the clothes and belongings in the storage unit, one of the items is the pink vest Krista (Brittany Murphy) wore in the final segment.

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The film's cast includes two Oscar winners, Mary Steenburgen and Marcia Gay Harden, and five Oscar nominees: Piper Laurie, Toni Collette, Josh Brolin, James Franco and Bruce Davison.

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In the first segment, "The Stranger," Piper Laurie played the same type of verbally abusive mother she had played in the original Carrie (1976) 30 years earlier. In both films she throws a drink in her daughter's face.

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The dead girl the film centers on is played by Brittany Murphy, who died three years later at the age of 32.

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Near the end of the film, while Krista (Brittany Murphy) is making a phone call, a missing child poster for Leah's (Rose Byrne) missing sister is visible in the phone booth.

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Kate Mulligan's first film.

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In the missing persons report, Brittany Murphy's prostitute character is named "Krista Kutcher," a reference to actor Ashton Kutcher, with whom Murphy was involved after they appeared together in Just Married (2003).

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Six of the actors were born in the same year but on different dates. In 1946, Bruce Davison was born on June 28 and Mary Beth Hurt on September 25. In 1959, Nick Searcy was born on March 7 and Marcia Gay Harden on August 14. In 1977, Kerry Washington was born on January 31 and Brittany Murphy on November 10.

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