FILM 1908: DISCLOSURE

FILM 1908: DISCLOSURE

TRIVIA: Michael Crichton sold the movie rights for $1 million before the novel was published.

In the United Kingdom, the film's poster was removed from Liverpool bus shelters because it was considered too sexually suggestive, especially in light of the fact that Liverpool County Council had just run an ad campaign promoting the safety of their buses to women traveling alone at night.

Before the publication of The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton had written under many pseudonyms, one being Michael Douglas.

As filming neared completion, Caroline Goodall slipped on a water spillage in her home and broke her shoulder. She was able to film her remaining scenes by taking some painkillers and removing her sling.

Demi Moore biked 28 miles every morning pre-dawn to get in shape for this film. She'd given birth to her third child a month before she was cast.

A decade later, Demi Moore was sued for sexual harassment by the caretaker of her Idaho ranch, Lawrence Bass, who claimed that she hit on him in the same manner she used to approach Douglas' character in the film, then fired him after he rejected her advances.

After Tom and Meredith terminate their meeting, Tom goes home to his wife, and while they're in bed they watch a movie with a clip of Fred MacMurray explaining why men fool around. The clip is from The Apartment (1960) starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.

FILM 1901: STRIPTEASE

FILM 1901: STRIPTEASE 

TRIVIA: Demi Moore was called back to re-shoot some scenes, and had to wear a wig since she had already shaved her head for G.I. Jane (1997).

Demi Moore was paid $12.5 million for this film, a record fee for an actress at the time. The film was more popular in overseas theaters than in American theaters.

Underwent last minute editing when preview audiences laughed at the wrong parts.

Burt Reynolds was not originally actually sought by the production for the part of politician Dave Dilbeck. Reynolds wanted the part badly and so contacted Castle Rock studio head Rob Reiner personally and went to Miami, Florida to audition. He took a pay cut considerably lower than to what he had received during the heyday of his career.

The little girl who plays Demi Moore's daughter in the movie is actually her real life daughter, Rumer Willis.

Demi Moore had no fewer than eight assistants on the film - one for make-up, a hairstylist, a costumer, a personal assistant, a personal trainer, a motion trainer and two security personnel.

A "loop group" in New York City recorded the background voices for various scenes. The actors are included in residual payments.

Coincidentally, bit player Frances Fisher (Donna Garcia)'s real-life daughter Francesca Eastwood dated Harry Morton, who also dated Demi Moore and Rumer Willis.

CAMEO: Michael Jordan: Appears as himself as a patron in the strip club in the scene where Erin Grant (Demi Moore) meets Lt. Al Garcia (Armand Assante) after one of the dancers says "Michael Jordan is at table 8" in original theatrical. The name in this line was changed and Michael Jordan's name is uncredited.

FILM 1777: NOTHING BUT TROUBLE

FILM 1777: NOTHING BUT TROUBLE

TRIVIA: Based on Dan Aykroyd's personal experiences. In 1978, he was pulled over for speeding in a rural town in the Northeastern United States. The police officer took him to the local Justice of the Peace in the middle of the night for a trial.

This film only made approximately 8.5 million dollars, but the budget was estimated at forty million dollars.

Roger Ebert famously hated the movie so much that he refused to write a review for it after giving it one of his most emphatic "thumbs down" reviews ever on Siskel & Ebert(1986). On the show, Ebert said that when he went to a weeknight showing of the film in 1991, the theatre was almost abandoned except for him, a few lone adults, and several teenagers who were making loud, rude comments at the screen; Ebert famously went over to the teens and asked them to be even louder so he didn't have to listen to the terrible movie anymore.

This is the only film directed by Dan Aykroyd.

The police badges, seen in the revolving frames on both sides of the Shire Reeve's bench, are actual badges from Dan Aykroyd's personal collection.

Tupac Shakur's film debut. He briefly appears as one of the members of the former hip-hop group Digital Underground. In the end credits, he is billed as "2 Pac Shakur".

What inspired this movie, was one day Dan Aykroyd imagined his friend John Candy in drag, and burst with laughter, for several weeks, every time he imagined that image, he would burst out with laughter, so Aykroyd decided to write a movie, where Candy would play a woman, he thought of a plot later.

FILM 1508: ST. ELMO'S FIRE 

TRIVIA: Demi Moore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, director Joel Schumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.

Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson all portrayed college graduates in this 1985 film, the same year all three actors also portrayed high school students in John Hughes' The Breakfast Club (1985). St. Elmo's Fire (1985) producer Lauren Shuler Donner has said all three were cast in the film due to strong recommendations from Hughes.

Mare Winningham played a virgin while she was actually pregnant during filming.

The street that the St. Elmo bar is on is in the Universal back lot with several fill in buildings in between sets. About two to three buildings to the left is the Hill Valley Clock Tower from Back to the Future (1985).

The "booga-booga" cheer that the friends do when they are celebrating or just in a good mood was not originally in the script. In a later interview, Rob Lowe stated that the cheer came out of observing fans whispering about the stars of the movie and then laughing. The cheer itself makes fun of what these whispered conversations sounded like from a few feet away.

The film's title, "St. Elmo's Fire", is derived from a real life meteorological phenomenon which is mentioned in the movie. It is also known as "St. Elmo's Light". According to website 'Wikipedia', it is "a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (such as those generated by thunderstorms or created by a volcanic eruption)".

Actress Ally Sheedy recommended Judd Nelson to the production for the role of Alec Newbary. The pair had co-starred in The Breakfast Club (1985) and re-teamed the following year to both headline Blue City (1986). As such, St. Elmo's Fire (1985) is the second of three dramatic collaborations of the two actors (they both also appear in the documentary Don't You Forget About Me (2009)).

Of the considered "core" members of the so called 1980s "brat pack", this movie had the most of them cast in the one film, more than any of the other pictures of the period. These core "Brat Pack" members included Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy. Core "Brat Pack" members not in St. Elmo's Fire (1985) were Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall but the pair had appeared in the same 1985 year's The Breakfast Club (1985) alongside St. Elmo's Fire (1985)'s Nelson, Sheedy and Estevez, taking that film's "Brat Pack" total to five, but this being one less "Brat Pack" member than St. Elmo's Fire (1985), which had six. Both of these "Brat Pack" movies though were first released in the same 1985 year.

Breakthrough film as a director for writer and former costume designer Joel Schumacher.

Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore began dating during the filming of the movie. He said he was "deeply in love with her." For a time they were even engaged, though they never married.

FILM 1381: A FEW GOOD MEN

TRIVIA: The original play was inspired by an actual Code Red at Guantanamo Bay. Lance Corporal David Cox and 9 other enlisted men tied up a fellow Marine and severely beat him, for snitching to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Cox was acquitted and later Honorably Discharged. In 1994, David Cox mysteriously vanished, and his bullet-riddled body was found three months later. His murder remains unsolved.

The movie's line "You can't handle the truth!" was voted as the #29 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).

Tom Cruise's Jack Nicholson impersonation (when his character is quoting Col. Jessep) was not scripted.

Jack Nicholson repeated his famous courtroom monologue as Col. Jessep off-camera several times so Rob Reiner could film the reactions of other actors from various angles. Nicholson's memorable on-camera performance was filmed last, but according to Reiner and the other cast members, Nicholson gave it his all every take as if he was on camera.

Screenwriter William Goldman did an uncredited re-write of the screenplay. Aaron Sorkin was so impressed by Goldman's new dialog (as well as changes that tightened the story) that he re-wrote and re-published the play to incorporate the changes.

Writer Aaron Sorkin got the story idea from his sister, who in real life experienced a very similar incident at Guantanamo from the "Lt. Cdr. Galloway" perspective as a female JAG attorney. In that incident, the victim was similarly assaulted by nine Marines and was badly injured, but did not die. Sorkin initially turned the idea into a play, and then this screenplay, which was his very first.

COL Jessep warns LT Kendrick that Santiago needs to score "4646" on his next Proficiency and Conduct report. Jessep is referring to a system by which the performance of enlisted men is rated on a scale from 0.0 to 5.0; a score of 4.6 corresponds to a rating of "Excellent".

The word "sir" is used 164 times during the movie. That's an average of once every 50 seconds.

The title for the play and film came from a long-running recruiting campaign for the U.S. Marine Corps, "We're looking for a few good men." The campaign was slowly phased out through the 1980s with the well-known, "The Few. The Proud. The Marines."

Two "Misery" novels can be seen beside Danny's typewriter while he watches a ball game. Misery (1990) was also directed by Rob Reiner and a typewriter plays an integral role in the plot of that film.