FILM · 2011
The Sitter
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13 Interesting Facts About The Sitter
- #001
A promotional poster for The Sitter lists Jonah Hill's personal phone number as (917) 409-7838. Hill set up an automated message, or would speak with callers either in character or as himself.
- #002
The character Garv, played by Broadway actor Sean Patrick Doyle, was inspired by an eccentric skateboarder Jonah Hill met in Venice Beach. The role was added in later drafts of the script.
- #003
At the start of the film, when Blithe Pedulla (Landry Bender) is seen in her room, Alyssa Milano's 1988 Teen Steam workout video is playing on the television.
- #004
Wings Balık Pazarı also serves as the location for the final scene of Premium Rush (2012), in which all of the film's bicycle couriers appear.
- #006
The screenplay for this film appeared on the 2009 Black List, a list of the year's "most liked" unproduced screenplays.
- #007
This is a raunchier version of Adventures in Babysitting (1987).
- #008
In the jewelry store scene, Noah Griffith tries to disable the store's security alarm by entering the code 1220, claiming the security code is his own birthday (December 20). Jonah Hill, who plays Noah, was born on December 20, 1983.
- #009
This was Landry Bender's (Blithe) first acting role.
- #010
Noah Griffith watches General Hospital (1963) on television.
- #011
This was David Gordon Green's second film released in 2011. The first — Your Highness (2011) — was just as critically reviled.
- #012
This was Samira Wiley's debut.
- #013
This is the first film David Gordon Green did not create himself in any shape or form.
- #014
Originally, Jonah Hill's character sat on the couch watching television, and one of the characters on the television was played by James Franco.
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