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 Director: Steven SoderberghProducer: James Cameron
Release Date (U.S.A): Nov 27, 2002
After tackling the Rat Pack heist caper Ocean's 11, Steven Soderbergh will now remake Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 Russian sci-fi epic Solaris. Originally conceived from a novel by Stanislav Lem, Solaris is the tale of an astronaut who journeys to a space station orbiting Solaris and discovers that the commander of an expedition has died under mysterious circumstances. James Cameron will produce through his Lightstorm Entertainment company.
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| Intolerable Cruelty |
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 Director: The Coen BrothersIntolerable Cruelty follows a hotshot Beverly Hills lawyer who frames a client's wife. In the dark romantic comedy, the lawyer sets up the client in order to prevent a marriage settlement. The vengeful wife pursues the lawyer with the intention of marriage, and the chance to receive her payback with the divorce.George Clooney is attached to star with direction from the Coen brothers, who reworked the original script by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone. The comedy is based on idea by John Romano
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| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind |
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 Director: George ClooneyProducer: Andrew Lazar
Plot:Confessions" is based on the memoirs of gameshow impresario Chuck Barris, who revealed that creating shows was merely a cover for his real job as government assassin. The film explores how Barris (Rockwell) was drafted for that role by a CIA recruiter (Clooney).
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
HAT TRICKY Rockwell as the ''Gong Show'' host
REAL PERSON ''Gong Show'' host Chuck Barris
PLAYED BY Sam Rockwell
THE DISH According to Barris, generating lowbrow schlock like ''The Gong Show'' wasn't his only outrageous act in the '70s. The film explores Barris' outlandish claim (put forth in his book ''Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography'') that he was using his day job as a cover for a more serious gig, as a CIA operative.
THE REALITY Good question. The thought of Barris working for the CIA seems like a joke. But, with the CIA, it's hard to know.
WHAT YOU WON'T SEE In the script, Barris is a fun-loving bachelor, so you won't see his daughter Della (who would sometimes appear on ''The Gong Show''), his first wife, Lyn, or his second wife, Robin. That's not such a bad thing, since the on-screen Barris gets wild and wooly with a sexy spy (Julia Roberts) and a sweet flower child (Drew Barrymore) instead.
WHAT MAKES THE CUT Brad Pitt and Matt Damon make cameos as ''Gong Show'' contestants, and the movie's director George Clooney (yes, THAT George Clooney) plays a CIA agent.
WHY WE CAN'T WAIT In the hands of the wrong people, an improbable tale like this one could get gonged faster than Gene Gene the Dancing Machine. But that's not likely to be a problem, with Charlie Kaufman (''Being John Malkovich'') scripting, George Clooney directing, and the overlooked Sam Rockwell (''Charlie's Angels'') getting his long-deserved big break.
SOURCE MATERIAL The too-bizarre-to-be-believed life of ''The Gong Show'' host Chuck Barris, as depicted in his 1984 memoir.
PLOT POINTERS Barris claims to have been employed as a government hitman in the '60s. He hosted a show where robots danced, comedians performed with paper bags over their heads, and C-list celeb judges smacked a huge gong. Enough said.
BURNING QUESTION Are docudramas based on '70s TV stars (see the Bob Crane story, ''Auto Focus'') the biggest thing since genius docudramas?
COME FOR Cameos from Clooney pals like Matt Damon and Brad Pitt as ''Gong Show'' contestants
STAY FOR The ''ER'' vet's first venture in directing
What's the big deal? ''It’s just really strange.'' -- Sam Rockwell
'MIND' GAMES Clooney makes Rockwell a counter offer
Based on the notoriously kooky 1984 ''unauthorized autobiography'' by ''Gong Show'' creator Chuck Barris, the mindbending ''Confessions'' script (by ''Being John Malkovich'''s Kaufman, whose ''Adaptation'' will also be on view this season) had long been regarded as one of Hollywood’s great unproduced screenplays, intriguing the likes of Mike Myers, Edward Norton, Sean Penn, and Ben Stiller, but to no avail. Finally, in February 2001, the film seemed set to roll with ''X-Men'''s Bryan Singer directing Johnny Depp as Barris and Clooney as a mysterious CIA operative who recruits the game-show goof as an assassin. Then Miramax shelved the project because of budget issues. But Clooney kept it alive by making a bid to direct -- and getting the job.
''I wanted to steal from the guys I loved,'' says Clooney, citing Alan J. Pakula and Sidney Lumet as influences. He also swiped talent from his earlier films, including his ''Three Kings'' cinematographer, ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' storyboard artist, and ''Ocean’s Eleven'' costar Roberts, who plays a CIA agent. Still, Clooney had to coax Miramax into giving him final cut and casting Rockwell (''Charlie’s Angels'') as his Barris. He got both by offering the studio first dibs on low-budget flicks (such as ''Full Frontal'') developed by his and Soderbergh’s Section Eight production company. Clooney says he’s pleased with his $29 million directorial debut, but is in no rush to get back behind the camera: ''All I wanted to do was get a good script made. If I bring anything more to it, I got lucky.''
THE LOWDOWN Rockwell has long been a breakthrough waiting to happen; we’re eager to see if this peculiar project is his moment.
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Confessions Of a Dangerous Mind (2002
Genere: Azione/Commedia/Drammatico
Origine: Usa
Chuck Barris ha una doppia vita segreta: di giorno, infatti, è un celebre conduttore di show televisivi, mentre di notte si trasforma in uno spietato agente della CIA con un sorprendente gusto nel commettere omicidi. Ma quando l'amore fa capolino nella sua vita le cose cambieranno.
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| Welcome to Collinwood |
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 Directed by Anthony RussoDirected by Joe Russo
Plot Outline:Two guys try to rob a pawn shop.It's the perfect setup... the biggest payoff... the cleanest getaway. It's the best job you've ever heard of. It's a masterpiece... It's your Bellini.
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If you look closely, you can see that Warner Home Video’s release 'Welcome To Collinwood' contains an interesting hidden feature.
From the DVD’s Main Menu go to the 'Special Features' section where you select the menu entry called 'Definitions and Etymologies.' On the first page in this section highlight the 'Continue' entry and then press the 'Up' arrow key on your remote control to highlight the stamp on the screen. Press 'enter' now and you will get to see a featurette called 'The Search.'
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Welcome To Collinwood (2002)
Genere: Commedia
Formato: 35mm (1:1,85)
Durata: 82 - Origine: Usa
Cinque aspiranti criminali cercano di fare il colpo della loro vita. Quando Pero, un ladruncolo, esce di prigione, va a Collinwood, una cittadina dell'Ohio, con l'intenzione di mettere a frutto le informazioni che ha carpito a un suo compagno di cella. Organizza il colpo, si procura i complici, ma il suo antico compagno di cella è rilasciato all'improvviso...
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| Film Credits Warner Bros. Pictures presents, in association with Pandora and H5B5 Media AG, a Section Eight Production, Welcome to Collinwood, starring LUIS GUZMAN, MICHAEL JETER, PATRICIA CLARKSON, ANDREW DAVOLI, ISAIAH WASHINGTON, WILLIAM H. MACY, SAM ROCKWELL, GABRIELLE UNION, JENNIFER ESPOSITO and GEORGE CLOONEY. Written for the screen and directed by ANTHONY & JOE RUSSO, the film is produced by STEVEN SODERBERGH and GEORGE CLOONEY; the Executive Producers are HUNT LOWRY, CASEY LA SCALA, HENDRIK HEY and BEN COSGROVE; Directors of Photography are LISA RINZLER and CHARLES MINSKY; the Production Designer is TOM MEYER; the Editor is AMY DUDDLESTON; the Co-Producer is SCOTT SHIFFMAN; music by MARK MOTHERSBAUGH.
Welcome to Collinwood will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company, on September 13th 2002. This film has been rated “R” by the MPAA for “language”
About The FilmIt's the perfect setup... the biggest payoff... the cleanest getaway. It's the best job you've ever heard of. It's a masterpiece... It's your Bellini.
When petty thief Cosimo (LUIS GUZMAN) is given the plan for the perfect heist from a lifer in prison - the kind of job you dream about, the kind of job that the reprobates on the block refer to as a 'Bellini" - he has to get out of jail, fast. Opportunities like this don't come along every day for the hard-luck folks who hang around the streets of Collinwood, a working class neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. What Cosimo needs is a fall guy, a 'Mullinski,' somebody who needs the $15,000 Cosimo can offer more than they need one to three years of freedom. But with Cosimo stuck in the joint, it's up to his girl Rosalind (PATRICIA CLARKSON) to track down a patsy.
But while no one wants to do the time for Cosimo's crime, everybody seems to know a guy who will - and for a share in the Bellini, they're willing to track him down. Before long, Rosalind has five guys trailing behind her, looking to get their bungling hands on a piece of the action.
Led by Pero (SAM ROCKWELL), a very amateur boxer who scemes to get the particulars of the job from Cosimo before leaving him in the joint to rot, the motley crew consists of photographer and frustrated artist Riley (WILLIAM H MACY), a single father with an infant on his hands who needs a thousand bucks to spring his wife from jail; Leon (ISAIAH WASHINGTON), who desperately wants to secure a better life for his sister Michelle (GABRIELLE UNION); Basil (ANDREW DAVOLI), a handsome Italian gigolo who's as broke as a one-wheeled wagon and Toto (MICHAEL JETER), a thief way past his prime who's got nothing but time.
Relying on the dubiously expert advice of veteran safecracker Jerzy (GEORGE CLOONEY), the band of hapless lowlifes sets out to bag the Bellini.
About The Production
Every small-time crook in the rough and tumble Cleveland neighborhood of Collinwood dreams of the perfect crime. In local lingo, it's called a "Bellini," a job so rich and simple that any fool with the right information can pull it off. When it comes to a Bellini, belief and desperation are two sides of the same coin.
Collinwood is one of those rust-belt neighborhoods ringing Cleveland's once vibrant industrial center. It's the kind of town where streets form boundaries between bristling ethnic and racial enclaves. It's the kind of place that yuppies and urban pioneers don't invade, where Starbucks doesn't sell coffee and happy-meals are only served from the parish soup kitchen. In Collinwood, it might be 1960 or 1990 -change comes slowly, if at all. It's not a real nice place, but it is an authentic place, an American place.
In Welcome to Collinwood, the first feature film from Cleveland natives and co-writer/ directors Joe and Anthony Russo, Collinwood is not just the landscape for a rare mix of tragedy and comedy, it's a part of the cast. "We set the story in a traditional working class neighborhood of Cleveland, the kind of neighborhood that's interesting because of its archaic feel," says Anthony Russo, who, along with his brother, won the attention and support of Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic, Erin Brockovich) after he saw their student film Pieces at the 1997 Slamdance Film Festival. "For this fable, we didn't want a specific or recognizable time setting, and Collinwood was perfect for conveying something indefinite in time and space."
The Russos' journey from their Cleveland roots to directing their $8 million action adventure comedy is, according to Collinwood executive producer Casey LaScala, "a fairytale with two fairy godmothers- Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney."
Their amazing Cinderella story began in 1997, when Soderbergh caught a screening of the film Pieces, a black comedy about three crazed Italian brothers in a failing Cleveland hairpiece business. A week later, the brothers received a phone call from Soderbergh. "We couldn't believe it," remembers Joe. "Steven said that he wanted to produce our next project, and he told us, 'there are two routes you can take in Hollywood: you can write your own script to direct - or we can try and get you connected to another screenplay.' We said we would prefer to direct our own material, and we began writing intensely over the next couple of years." Anthony then takes up the story, explaining that, "when Steven and George formed their Section Eight production company, they brought us in and said they wanted to make one of our films. That film ended up being Welcome to Collinwood."
Joe confirms that the screenplay the Russo brothers created, a story about down-and-out characters trying to pull off a too-good-to-be true robbery, "borrows heavily from Big Deal on Madonna Street, an old Italian movie that we transplanted to Cleveland. We kept the ethnic characters but set it in an American working class neighborhood rather than an Italian one."
"We were committed to the notion of multiple story lines," says Anthony. "It was very important to us for every character to have his or her place in the story - which is both the key and the chief difficulty of ensemble films."
Besides attracting financing and mentoring the Russos, Clooney and Soderbergh also helped to secure a stellar cast. "Steven identified the Russo brothers as extraordinarily talented directors, and that drew in these very experienced actors who typically have their pick of projects," notes executive producer Ben Cosgrove. "And the fact that George chose to play a small role was very influential in Warner Bros.' and Gaylord's decision to finance the movie."
Although they wrote the screenplay with the intention of attracting high-caliber talent, the Russos are nonetheless amazed at how successful they've been. "'The movie, at its essence, is an actor's piece," says Anthony. "That's what we've always considered it, and that was our approach to casting. We really wanted to find "actors' actors" to play these roles because we felt the script needed it. The cast we have is made up of some of our favorite actors. It's just a thrill to be working with them."
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"If you ask me why I was attracted to this project, I'll tell you 'it's the script,"' says veteran character actor William H. Macy. "It reads like it's contemporary and at the same time like it's a thirties comedy. It moves wonderfully, with great humor and great affection towards the characters, and an underlying morality, which I found completely disarming. I've always been attracted to the story of losers who get their shot."
In addition to the high-powered cast, the filmmakers and crew worked for close to scale on the project. "'Everybody, across the board, took a significant pay cut to do this film including George Clooney," Cosgrove reports. "He was actually the lowest paid person on the production. He made less than the production assistants did.
"In fact," reveals Cosgrove, "George and Steven contributed their entire producing fee to the production, and then put in their entire producing fee from Insomnia as well. So they're actually investors as well as producers."
Of course, when you're working with a budget of 8 million dollars, you not only have to make difficult choices, you have to make good ones. "We didn't have a lot of cranes. We didn't have a lot of steadicams. We didn't get a lot of the good toys. Yet we're delivering a film that looks like we spent a lot more money than we had," co-producer Scott Shiffman boasts. "Tom Meyer, our production designer, did a fantastic job of stretching dollars. That's true for props and wardrobe, as well."
Indeed, for a number of the actors, Welcome To Collinwood's independent feel and independent-size budget were advantageous to the filmmaking process. Sam Rockwell describes a tight shooting schedule as "good for the work. I think it's actor friendly when you move faster because you stay consistent and focused; it improves concentration."
For the young, ambitious Russo brothers, Welcome to Collinwood is actually a step up in terms of project size and budget. "From our background in very low budget independent filmmaking, making a $8 million film was unbelievable. We had a crew of a hundred people doing things on this production of which we were completely unaware," laughs Anthony. "We've been used to carrying our own equipment and setting up the lights ourselves," he says before having his sentence finished by brother Joe, " - and breaking down the equipment at the end of the day. It's a very different experience. This time we have a video monitor - we're still getting used to that."
Tag-team talking is just one of many talents possessed by these highly focused, enormously talented Clevelanders. Isaiah Washington describes his directors this way: "It's as if you were to split a brain down the middle and put it on two legs. One's very poetic and one's very visual. It's like what might happen if your left hand and right hand had a conversation with one another."'
"At first, I wondered, why have two directors? Now, I think of them as one," Patricia Clarkson adds. "'Sometimes Joe will give you notes, sometimes Anthony will give you notes. Sometimes Anthony's sitting at the camera and sometimes Joe. When I'm talking to one, I feel as if I'm talking to both."
For his part, Macy focuses on the practicality of team directors. "I think the net result is that there are two people watching the helm," he concludes. "The shots are well thought out, and when it comes to cutting the film, every contingency has been considered. In fact, it's quite efficient. They did a great job of keeping the reins pretty tight."
The support of Soderbergh and Clooney has been instrumental in affording the Russos an opportunity to further develop their potential as filmmakers. "Steven and George are trying to create an environment where you can combine the best of the studio world and the best of the independent world in a single vision," says Anthony. "That's exactly what we've always wanted to do. They've created a company that can support filmmakers like us, and it has been an extremely valuable resource."
"We grew up loving European cinema and Golden Era films, and we want to try and make films that encompass both those cinematic worlds," Joe adds. "We want to try and combine the story and narrative that defined classic Hollywood filmmaking, with the depth of character and experimentation that drove the French New Wave or the Italian Neorealists. For us, our favorite films have always tried to achieve that balance."
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The Cast
Luis Guzman (Cosimo)
 recently starred in The Count of Monte Cristo, directed by Kevin Reynolds. Mr. Guzman plays lead roles in several upcoming releases that include Punch-Drunk Love, with Adam Sandler, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and Pluto Nash with Eddie Murphy.Mr. Guzman is currently co-starring in Confidence with Ed Burns, directed by James Foley; after which he will begin filming Anger Management with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson.
The former social worker has become a well-known leading and character actor, appearing in nearly two dozen films. Born in Puerto Rico, Mr. Guzman grew up in Manhattan. He graduated from City College, after which he worked as a youth counselor at the Henry Street Settlement House while performing in street theater and independent films. Mr. Guzman's first big break was a guest appearance on the NBC series Miami Vice.
Mr. Guzman has appeared in three films for Sidney Lumet, Guilty as Sin, Family Business, and Q&A; two films for Brian De Palma, Snake Eyes and Carlito's Way; three films for Paul Thomas Anderson, including Magnolia and Boogie Nights; and three films for Steven Soderbergh, Traffic, The Limey (for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor) and Out of Sight.
Mr. Guzman's other films include Anthony Minghella's Mr. Wonderful, Ridley Scott's Black Rain, The Hard Way, Cadillac Man, True Believer and Crocodile Dundee 11.
Early in his career, Mr. Guzman made guest appearances on many television shows, including ABC's NYPD Blue, NBC's Law & Order, and HBO's Oz.
Michael Jeter (Toto)
 starred with William H. Macy and Sam Neill in Jurassic Park 3. Other recent projects include Sam Raimi's The Gift opposite Keanu Reeves and Cate Blanchett, the Oscar-nominated film The Green Mile with Tom Hanks, Dwight Yoakam's South of Heaven, West of Hell and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Jeter has also appeared in Patch Adams, Jakob the Liar, True Crime, The Fisher King, Air Bud, Mouse Hunt, Waterworld, Drop Zone, Zack & Reba, Sister Act 2, Tango & Cash, Dead Bang, Woody Allen's Zelig and Milos Forman's Hair, his acting debut.Jeter gained critical attention for his role opposite Burt Reynolds on the TV show Evening Shade. He won an Emmy in 1992 and was nominated two more times for his portrayal of coach Herman Stiles. Guest roles on Picket Fences and Chicago Hope resulted in another two Emmy nominations. He currently plays Mr. Noodle on the ever-popular series Sesame Street and has appeared on Suddenly Susan, Chicago Hope, Veronica's Closet, Murphy Brown, Crime Story, Designing Women, Lou Grant and in the TV movies The Ransom of Red Chief, Love Kills, From Here to Eternity, Sentimental Journey and The Boys Next Door.
On Broadway, he starred in Grand Hotel, for which he won a Tony Award, Once in a Lifetime and G.R. Point, for which he won a Theatre World Award. Notable Off-Broadway credits include Cloud 9, Greater Tuna, The Boys Next Door, Alice, Only Kidding and The Master and the Margarita.
Patricia Clarkson (Rosalind)
 recently appeared in The Pledge with Sean Penn and Jack Nicholson and in the Oscar nominated film The Green Mile opposite Tom Hanks. 2002 promises to be especially busy for Clarkson with upcoming projects including the Lars Von Trier helmed Dogville, All the Real Girls, Pieces of April, The Baroness and the Pig, Safety of Objects and Todd Haynes' Far From Heaven.Clarkson received critical acclaim for her role as Greta in the independent film High Art, for which she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and a National Film Critics Society award. Her feature film resume also includes The Untouchables, Pharaoh's Army, Jumanji, Rocket Gibraltar, Everybody's All American, The Dead Pool, Tune in Tomorrow, Playing by Heart, Simply Irresistible and Joe Gould's Secret.
On stage in New York, she has appeared in Eastern Standard, both on and off Broadway, Raised in Captivity, The Maiden's Prayer, Wolfman Oliver, Three Days of Rain and the Tony-Award-winning House of Blue Leaves.
Andrew Davoli (Basil)
next stars alongside Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, John Malkovich and Dennis Hopper in the mobster caper Knockaround Guys. Last year he appeared in The Yards starring Charlize Theron, Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix. He was also seen recently in a recurring role as Dino on HBO's hit series, The Sopranos.
Isaiah Washington (Leon
 has been featured in four acclaimed films directed by Spike Lee: Clockers, Get on the Bus, Girl 6 and Crooklyn. Washington just finished production on Warner Bros. Pictures' thriller Ghost Ship opposite Gabriel Byrne and Julianna Margulies, scheduled for release in October 2002. He can also be seen in HBO's critically acclaimed Dancing in September for which he was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor, Andrzej Bartkowiak's Romeo Must Die with Jet Li and Aaliyah, Clint Eastwood's True Crime, Warren Beatty's Bulworth and Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight with Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney. Other credits include Love Jones, Dead Presidents, Stonewall and Strictly Business.Washington has guest starred on several top TV shows including NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Ally McBeal, New York Undercover, Living Single, Soul Food and Touched by an Angel.
WILLIAM H. MACY (Riley)
 received an Oscar nomination and an independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of car salesman Jerry Lundegaard in the Coen brothers' thriller Fargo. He recently co-starred in the block-buster Jurassic Park 3 and in New Line Cinema's Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, David Mamet's State and Main, Miramax's Happy Texas, Universal's Mystery Men and the Sundance Film Festival premiere, Panic.Macy's other film work includes Pleasantville, Gus Van Sant's Psycho, A Civil Action, Boogie Nights, Wag the Dog, Air Force One, Ghosts of Mississippi, Mr. Holland's Opus, The Client, Shadows and Fog, Murder in the First, Searching for Bobby Fisher and Radio Days.
Macy can next be seen in TNT's Door to Door, which he also co-wrote. The film tells the true story of the life of an award-winning door-to-door salesman with cerebral palsy. Macy also recently wrote and starred in the TNT movie A Slight Case of Murder, for which he was nominated for an Emmy. He has also received Emmy nominations for his guest roles on Sports Night and ER. Other television work includes LA Law, Bakersfield, P.D., Civil Wars and Law and Order, as well as the TV movies Texan for Showtime and the BBC production, The Writing on the Wall.
On stage, Macy wowed audiences and critics in a Broadway revival of Mamet's American Buffalo. During his long and distinguished career, he has appeared in close to fifty plays including the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Our Town, Mamet's The Water Engine, Prarie du Chein, Oh Hell and Oleanna, as well as the off-Broadway productions Baby with the Bathwater, The Dining Room, Life During Wartime and Bodies, Rest and Motion.
Known for his dynamic leading performances in the independent film world,
SAM ROCKWELL (Pero) has made a successful transition to
 starring roles in mainstream films. Rockwell recently wrapped his starring role in George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and was most recently seen in David Mamet's Heist.Rockwell co-starred in Charlie's Angels and received critical praise for his performance in Frank Darabont's Oscar nominated The Green Mile, and was seen in the box office hit Galaxy Quest. He also gained considerable notice in several independent films. His performance in John Duigan's Lawn Dogs earned him Best Actor awards at both the Montreal and Barcelona Film Festivals. He also received acclaim from his performances in John Hamburg's Safe Men and Saul Rubinek's dark comedy Jerry and Tom.
Rockwell's additional big screen credits include Woody Allen's Celebrity, Michael Hoffman's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom DiCillo's Box of Moonlight, Peter Cohen's Drunks, Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper, Uhi Edel's Last Exit to Brooklyn, and his feature film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's Clown House while he was still a student at the High School of the Performing Arts.
On television, Rockwell has appeared in the HBO special, Dead Drunk, as well as episodes of NYPD Blue and Law & Order.
Rockwell has appeared on stage in Face Divided as part of the EST Marathon series, as well as the recent Off-Broadway production of Goosepimples, written by Mike Leigh.
In just a few short years, GABRIELLE UNION (Michelle) has managed to build an impressive resume. Union is presently filming the romantic comedy Deliver Us From Eva for director Gary Hardwick, also starring LL Cool J. Union recently completed filming Abandon, Stephen Gaghan's directorial debut, opposite Benjamin Bratt and Katie Holmes. Most recently in theaters, Union starred in the feature film The Brothers and co-starred opposite Kirsten Dunst in Bring It On. Additionally, Union can be seen opposite Vivica A. Fox in the feature film Two Can Play That Game; as well as Love & Basketball, Ten Things I Hate About You and She's All That.
Union guest-starred last season on the hit NBC comedy Friends, and joined the cast of Steven Bochco's CBS television drama, City Of Angels. She made her television debut on the UPN hit comedy Moesha, and then went on to guest star on hit television shows such as ER, Dave's World and The Steve Harvey Show. Union has also had recurring roles on two WB hit shows, Sister Sister and 7th Heaven.
Jennifer Esposito (Carmela)
 was seen most recently starring in Beyond City Limits with Alyson Hannigan and Nastassja Kinski. She also starred opposite Famke Janssen and Michael Douglas in the thriller Don't Say a Word. Recent projects include The Proposal, Wes Craven's Dracula 2000, Boys Life 3 and The Bachelor with Renee Zellweger and Chris O'Donnell.Esposito also appears in Just One Time, the Spike Lee films Summer of Sam and He Got Game, as well as I Know What You Did Last Summer, No Looking Back, A Brooklyn State of Mind, Kiss Me Guido and A Brother's Kiss. From 1997 to 1999 she played feisty New York City mayoral staffer Stacey Paterno on TV's Spin City opposite Michael J. Fox.
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About The Filmmakers
ANTHONY and JOE RUSSO (Writer/Directors) were born one year apart in a working class, Italian neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. The brothers grew up sons of a liberal politician during the 1970's - a tumultuous political era that saw Cleveland become the first major American city to go bankrupt since the Great Depression. Welcome to Collinwood was influenced by the colorful ethnic rivalry and decaying industrial landscape that defined their hometown during their youth.
Just prior to beginning film school, Anthony and Joe wrote, directed, produced, and Joe performed in Pieces. In 1997, the film screened at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and played at the American Film Institute Film Festival in Los Angeles where Joe received the Best Actor Award from the American Film Institute.
Steven Soderbergh saw Pieces while attending the Slamdance Film Festival (he was there with his own film Schizopolis) - he called the brothers a week later and offered to produce their next project. After Soderbergh partnered with George Clooney to form their production company, Section Eight, Welcome to Collinwood became the first film produced by the company.
Steven Soderbergh(Producer)
not only works behind the camera as a director but behind the scenes as a producer for a variety of projects. In 2000, Soderbergh and George Clooney formed Section Eight, a film production company based at Warner Bros. which has produced the upcoming Insomnia, Far From Heaven, written and directed by Todd Haynes, and Charlie Kaufman's adaptation of Chuck Barris' book Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, directed by and starring George Clooney with a cast that includes Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore and Julia Roberts for Miramax.
Soderbergh's other credits as producer include The Daytrippers and Pleasantville and as an executive producer for Suture and Godfrey Reggio's upcoming Naqoyqatsi, the final installment of the non-narrative films that make up the Qatsi Trilogy, beginning with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi.
Soderbergh is the only director to have two films nominated for Best Picture and Best Director in the same year. His Academy Award for Best Director of Traffic marks the first time since the 1928/29 Awards that a director has successfully competed against himself (Frank Lloyd for Divine Lady. Michael Curtiz, a double nominee for Best Director in 1938 for Angels With Dirty Faces and Four Daughters lost to Frank Capra for You Can't Take It With You).
Traffic also received Oscars for Editing (Stephen Mirrione), Supporting Actor (Benicio del Toro) and Adapted Screenplay (Stephen Gaghan). The film's fifth nomination was for Best Picture (Laura Bickford, Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick).
In addition to Soderbergh's Best Director nomination for Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts received the Best Actress Academy Award. The film's other nominations were for Best Supporting Actor (Albert Finney), Best Original Screenplay (Susannah Grant) and Best Picture (Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher).
Last year, Soderbergh directed the hugely successful ensemble caper Ocean's Eleven. His additional directing credits include The Limey, Out of Sight, Gray's Anatomy, Schizopolis, The Underneath, King of the Hill and Kafka.
In August, his contemporary comedy Full Frontal, which was shot during eighteen days using a combination of digital videotape and film, will be released by Miramax.
Currently, Soderbergh is directing the science-fiction thriller Solaris from his own screenplay adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's novel starring George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies and Viola Davis.
George Clooney's (Producer)
creative inclination behind the camera underscores his experience and acclaim as an actor. Clooney's feature directorial debut, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, in which he will also star, is slated for December.
Most recently, Clooney starred in Steven Soderbergh's hugely successful Ocean's Eleven, in Wolfgang Peterson's box-office blockbuster The Perfect Storm and in Joel and Ethan Coen's Golden-Globe nominated O Brother, Where Art Thou? He won the 2000 Golden Globe Award as Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - for his performance in O Brother.
Clooney earned unified critical acclaim for his role as Sergeant Major Archie Gates in the award-winning drama Three Kings, and his previous feature film credits include starring roles in The Peacemaker and Batman & Robin. Clooney also starred in the romantic comedy One Fine Day and the vampire thriller From Dusk Till Dawn.
Clooney first collaborated with Soderbergh when he starred as fugitive bank robber Jack Foley in the Oscar-nominated Out of Sight, a film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's best-selling novel. He is partnered with Soderbergh in the film production company Section Eight, which produced the suspense thriller Insomnia to be released on May 24. Clooney also stars in Soderbergh's Solaris, which is currently in production.
Clooney also develops television projects. He executive produced and starred in a live television broadcast of Fail Safe, which was nominated for a 2000 Golden Globe Award as Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television. The Emmy-award winning telefilm. was based on the early 1960s novel of the same name. He is known to television audiences for his Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, People's Choice and Emmy-nominated portrayal of Dr. Douglas Ross on ER.
Hunt Lowry (Executive Producer)
with his partner E.K. Gaylord II, recently structured a long-term co-financing and production deal with Warner Bros. Pictures for Gaylord Films and its specialty film division, Pandora. Gaylord Films and Pandora currently have a number of motion pictures in production, post-production and development. Among the projects Lowry is producing are White Oleander (Warner Bros. Pictures), starring Robin Wright Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Renée Zellweger, and an as-yet untitled espionage thriller (Miramax), starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. Both films are scheduled for a 2002 release.
Most recently, Lowry served as producer on the inspirational coming-of-age love story, A Walk to Remember, starring Shane West and Mandy Moore, released in January of this year, and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, starring Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Sandra Bullock, James Garner and Maggie Smith, which will be released June 7th.
Previously, he was an executive producer on the critically acclaimed feature Donnie Darko, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize there. Among his additional producing credits are Disney's The Kid, starring Bruce Willis, the thriller Instinct, starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr.; Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill, starring Sandra Bullock; the epic period romance First Knight, starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere; My Life, starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman; Striking Distance, starring Bruce Willis; the award-winning The Last of the Mohicans, starring Daniel Day-Lewis; the Chris Columbus comedy Only the Lonely; Career Opportunities; Get Crazy and Top Secret!
For television, Lowry produced the miniseries Dream West, Surviving: A Family in Crisis, and was executive producer on Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
Casey La Scala (Executive Producer)
recently executive produced A Walk to Remember for Warner Bros. Pictures, and served as an executive producer on the critically acclaimed Donnie Darko, which premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the festival's Grand Jury Prize. Most recently, he produced an as-yet untitled espionage thriller for Miramax, starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu, set for a 2002 release.
While an executive at Touchstone Pictures, he supervised the development and production of numerous film projects including Ron Howard's thriller Ransom, the adventure comedy Nothing to Lose, Father of the Bride 2, Enemy of the State, and the hugely popular action thriller Armageddon.
Hendrick Hey (Executive Producer) is an executive with H5B5 Media AG.
After graduating from Columbia University, BEN COSGROVE (Executive Producer) worked in New York in book publishing at The Free Press, then an imprint of MacMillan Publishing. Cosgrove's first job in the movie business was as a freelance reader at TriStar Pictures, where he ultimately became Director of Creative Affairs. At TriStar, Cosgrove worked on numerous projects including Jumanji, The Mask of Zorro and Devil in a Blue Dress. Following his tenure at TriStar, Cosgrove joined Maysville Pictures, George Clooney's Warner Bros.-based production company. When Clooney partnered with Steven Soderbergh to form Section Eight, Cosgrove became president of the new company. In addition to Welcome to Collinwood, Section Eight has produced Oceans Eleven, directed by Steven Soderbergh, Insomnia, directed by Chris Nolan, Far From Heaven, directed by Todd Haynes and In God's Hands, directed by Lodge Kerrigan.
Lisa Rinzler (Director of Photography)
won the Sundance award for Best Cinematography in 1999 for her work on October Film's Three Seasons, directed by Tony Bui. Rinzler most recently completed work on Love Liza, directed by Todd Louiso and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates. Her thirty feature film credits include Sony Pictures' Pollock, directed by and starring Ed Harris; the New York portion of The Buena Vista Social Club, directed by Wim Wenders; Trees Lounge, directed by and starring Steve Buscemi and New Line's Menace II Society, directed by the Hughes brothers.
Charles Minsky (Director of Photography)
worked most recently on Fox Searchlight's Slap Her, She's French, Sony's Tomcats and DreamWorks' Oscar-winning Almost Famous, directed by Cameron Crowe. His cinematography can also be seen in the features Guinevere, Looking for an Echo, Dear God, Kazam, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, Dutch and Pretty Woman.
Minsky's television credits include The Beast, Keys, Lois & Clark, Capital News and China Beach, all for ABC, as well as Showtime's Past Tense and A House of Secrets and Lies for CBS.
Tom Meyer (Production Designer)
recently served as Production Designer on Blue Crush, directed by John Stockwell. His feature work as an Art Director can be seen in the Disney romance crazy/beautiful, also directed by John Stockwell and starring Kirsten Dunst; Artisan's The Way of the Gun, directed by Chris McQuarrie; Miramax/ Dimension's The Crow: Salvation, directed by Bharat Nalluri and Independent Artist's No Vacancy, directed by Marius Balchumus. He has also worked on television shows, commercials, music videos and theater productions.
Amy Duddleston (Editor)
recently edited Showtime's My Horrible Year, directed by Eric Stoltz. Her feature editing work can be seen in Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, directed by Rodrigo Garcia; the remake of Psycho, directed by Gus Van Sant; High Art, directed by Lisa Cholodenko and Crocodile Tears. She worked as an Additional Editor on 20th, Century Fox's Brokedown Palace and as an Associate Editor on the Van Sant films To Die For and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Early in her career, Duddleston was the 1st Assistant Editor on Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho.
While still in college in Santa Barbara, SCOTT SHIFFMAN (Co-Producer) was hired as a production assistant for a new television show called Santa Barbara. After the location shoot, he was offered a job on the show in L.A. moving up quickly, Shiffman went from Assistant to Key Production Accountant, working on films such as Mistress, produced by and starring Robert DeNiro and the feature film version of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Next, Shiffman became Manager of Production Accounting for the British firm ITC where he supervised the finances and production of several low budget feature films. Those of note: Fear of a Black Hat, a spoof of the rap music scene written and directed by Rusty Cundieff, and John Dahl's The Last Seduction, with Linda Fiorentino and Bill Pullman.
Shiffman left ITC to become a Senior Auditor at Disney's Buena Vista Pictures division at the same time that Disney bought the fiercely independent Miramax Films. With Shiffman's independent background, he was vital to help with the integration of the two companies. Over a three-year period, Shiffman personally oversaw production on nearly 30 Miramax films. Some of the films made during that period were Smoke, Blue in the Face, Beautiful Girls, Citizen Ruth, Flirting With Disaster, Restoration and Scream.
Miramax persuaded Shiffman to leave Buena Vista and was put on contract to co-produce two films for the company. First was Miramax/Dimension's big budget effects thriller Mimic, with Mira Sorvino, and then the cyber thriller Takedown starring Skeet Ulrich.
In addition, Scott was co-producer with Stephen Chin and James Woods on the independent film, Another Day in Paradise. In late '98 Scott traveled to Virginia as Executive Producer on Cherry Falls, a sexy, stylistic teen thriller for October Films (later USA Films).
Shiffman's next project was the political drama by writer/director Rod Lurie, The Contender, starring Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges and Christian Slater, which earned two Academy nods in 2000.
Mark Mothersbaugh (Composer) entered mass consciousness in the mid '70's as singer/keyboardist/conceptualist in the multi-media project that was and is DEVO. During the decade that followed, the group generated numerous albums and hit singles and world tours.
Shortly before DEVO disbanded in the mid '80s, Mothersbaugh scored a Hawaiian Punch commercial, orchestrating the sounds of a factory to create a rhythm track for an animation of dancing robots. His innovations earned Mothersbaugh a Clio award and a new vocation: composing for film and television.
Mothersbaugh provided the memorable theme for Pee-Wee's Playhouse, in addition to scoring several complete episodes of the award-winning CBS series. He also provided the soundtracks, along with some 420 original songs, to 100 episodes of the Disney Channel's Adventures In Wonderland, and was commissioned to score the popular children's television show Rugrats.
After a second phase of recording and touring by DEVO which lasted through the early '90s, Mothersbaugh began scoring feature films, including the #1 hit Rugrats: The Movie, Rushmore, 200 Cigarettes, Drop Dead Gorgeous and The Mystery Men. He also wrote the underscore and 20 original songs for A Rugrats Live Adventure, currently touring nationwide and at present is working on the Rugrats II soundtrack, the popular Dawson's Creek, and the new Nickelodeon series Rocket Beach. Recent features include Sorority Boys, The Royal Tenenbaums, Sugar and Spice and Rocky & Bullwinkle.
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Written for the Screen and Directed byWritten for the Screen and Directed by....
ANTHONY & JOE RUSSO
Produced by
GEORGE CLOONEY
STEVEN SODERBERGH
Executive Producers
HUNT LOWRY
CASEY LA SCALA
HENDRIK HEY
BEN COSGROVE
Directors of Photography
LISA RINZLER
CHARLES MINSKY
Production Designer................................. TOM MEYER
Edited by................................... AMY E. DUDDLESTON
Based on "I Soliti Ignoti" by............. SUSO CECCHI d'AMICO
MARIO MONICELLI
AGENORE INCROCCI
FURIO SCARPELLI
Costumes Designed by............................ JULIET POLCSA
Music by.................................... MARK MOTHERSBAUGH
Co-Producer.................................... SCOTT SHIFFMAN
Associate Producer............................... JAMES HENNEY
Casting by................................... CHRISTINE SHEAKS
Unit Production Manager....................... RICHARD GELFAND
First Assistant Director........................ GLEN TROTINER
Second Assistant Director......................... DEAN GARVIN
Executive Music Producer........................ DEBRA A. BAUM
Art Director.................................... DENISE HUDSON
Set Decorator..................................... MEG EVERIST
Camera Operator.................................. CHAIM KANTOR
First Assistant Camera............................. ALEC BOEHM
MAURIZIO (NINO) DOTTO
Second Assistant Camera............................ LILA BYALL
B Camera Operator................................. MICHAEL MAY
Steadicam Operators.............................. PAUL SOMMERS, MARCUS COLE
Loader........................................... KIELY CRONIN
Additional 1st Assistant Camera............ DOMINIC NAPOLITANO
Still Photographer............................ JAMIE TRUEBLOOD
Post Production Supervisor.................. CYNTHIA NICOLELLA
Additional Editor.......................... PHILLIP J. BARTELL
Assistant Editor.............................. MICHAEL NOURYEH
Special Effects Coordinator.................... GARY PILKINTON
Special Effects Foreman........................... PAT TANTALO
Special Effects Technician.......................... CHAD BALL
Special Effects............................... RUSSELL TYRRELL
Production Accountant............................ LYNELL BANGS
Production Coordinator....................... CAROL ANN THOMAS
Location Manager.................................. ALAN FORBES
Assistant Location Managers......................... JAKE AUST, ARTIS GAINES
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Music Clearance............................ LISA BAUMAN WASIAK
Titles & Opticals............................... PACIFIC TITLE
Negative Cutter................................. PAUL TANZILLO
Color Timer..................................... GIL CARRERRAS
Color by.................................................. CFI
Lenses and Cameras by................... CAMERA SERVICE CENTER
Camera Dollies by...... CHAPMAN/LEONARD STUDIO EQUIPMENT, INC.
SONGS
"VIA CON ME"
Written and Performed by Paolo Conte
Courtesy of Warner Music Italy SpA
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
"COME DI"
Written and Performed by Paolo Conte
Courtesy of Warner Music Italy SpA
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
"MAYBE IT'S YOU"
Written by Mark Mothersbaugh and Anita Greenspan
Performed by Johnny Crawford
Courtesy of Mutato Muzika
"SNAPPY PAPPY"
Written by Mark Mothersbaugh
Performed by Mark Mothersbaugh
Courtesy of Mutato Muzika
"TWIST A"
Written by Mark Mothersbaugh
Performed by Mark Mothersbaugh
Courtesy of Mutato Muzika
"YOU AND ME"
Written by Jeff Mleczko
Performed by Toledo Polkamotion
"MY LITTLE DARLING"
Written by Jeff Mleczko
Performed by Toledo Polkamotion
Soundtrack album on Combustion Music
Special Thanks
The People and City of Cleveland,Greater Cleveland's Film Commission, Office of the Mayor, City of Cleveland, Office of the Cuyahoga County Commissioners
Office of the Cleveland City Council, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, The Alta House, The Beachland Ballroom, Continental Airlines
The Fedeli Group, La Dolce Vita Restaurant, Little Bar & Grill, Maxi's Ristorante
Nido Italia, Paradise Flowers, Pat Dollard Film, Inc., Rick Hess Pictures, Inc.
Slavic Village Development Corporation, Collinwood Development Corporation
Downtown Cleveland Partnership, Historic Gateway Association, Northeast Shore Development Corporation, Ohio City/Near West Development Corporation
Tremont West Development Corporation, American Humane Assoc. (Logo)
American Humane Association monitored the animal action.
No animals were harmed in the making of the film.
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Ocean's 11
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 Director Steven SoderberghPlot: A gangster by the name of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) rounds up a gang of associates to stage heists of three majorLas Vegas casino's (Bellagio, The Mirage, and Treasure Island) simultaneously during a popular boxing event.
Cast: George Clooney,Brad Pitt,Casey Affleck,Julia Roberts,Don Cheadle,Matt Damon,Andy Garcia
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The Perfect Storm
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 Directed by Wolfgang PetersenPlot: An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.
Cast: George Clooney,Mark Wahlberg,Diane Lane,Mary E Mastrantonio,John C.Reilly
Writer:Sebastian Junger
Writer:William D. Wittliff
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Tagline: In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic.Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history.
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Movie mistakes of "The Perfect Storm"
In one scene, George Clooney's character tells his crew they look like they've had a rough night in Scollay Square. The film is set in 1991, but Scollay Square in Boston, once a wild urlesque/bar area, was turned into Boston's Government Centre in the early 1960's. Scollay Square no longer existed in 1991. [Government Centre in Boston is STILL unofficially called Scollay Square. There are signs all over the subway station at Government Centre as well as outside the stop. So it is entirely possible for Clooney's character to mention fighting in Scollay Square.
At the very beginning of the Movie it says "Gloucester, Massachusetts 1991" and shows boats in the harbour including the Leisure Casino Cruises ship. Casino cruises did not start in Gloucester until 1997 or 1998.
When they all are in the bar, Mark Wahlberg's character gives the kid of one of his shipmates his hat before following his girlfriend upstairs. The next morning, he comes down the stairs wearing the same hat.
In the scene where they are getting ready to leave, its dark and George Clooney is in checking the equipment- you can clearly see a face in the depth finder of a crew member.
In on of the scenes the Andrea Gale completely rolled over. When they show the guys in that are below deck, the TV that is on the shelf behind them hadn't moved an inch. [Was it bolted to a surface?
In the scene where the newsroom is shown and they are doing a weather update, it says Channel 9 news Boston. There is, and never has been, a Channel 9 news in Boston.
For the little sailboat near the beginning of the movie - The captain says that he has been sailing for 42 or something years, but when we see the boat in the heavy weather, we can see that the jib (front sail) is out. In the kind of weather they were in, it would have made much more sense to wind in the jib (which just involves furling it around the main stay, so that wouldn't be hard), and try to sail on motor alone. [The jib is not on the mainstay. There is no mainstay. The jib is on the headstay. The stay running to the stern of the boat is the backstay. The rigging on the port and starboard side of the mast are shrouds. As to the advice of furling (not winding) the jib in and using the engine (not motor), the jib would provide a stabilising effort to the boat.
When they pull the hook out of the guy's hand he puts a spoon in his mouth - its facing right, but when he's done it's facing left. If they were going where they said they were going wouldn't it be the Canadian Coast Guard that would control the rescue mission?
When the fishermen's loved ones are in the bar trying to get updates on the TV about the ship, and the owner of the boat comes in, everyone including Bugsy's "friend" are acting like they are annoyed with him. But how can Bugsy's friend know how big of an a**hole the owner was, when she never meet the guy, or was never told about him?
In the rescue scene where the Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa is picking up the downed helicopter crew, the Tamaroa is shown as a modern day cutter. The real Tamaroa is an old ship, which is about to be decommissioned. The real Tamaroa and the one shown in the movie are nothing alike.
At one point when they are piloting the Andrea Gale over the waves the boat crashes down smashing the front windows, the left side windows are then smashed, later on however it becomes quite obvious that the left windows are the only ones broken and the front ones are completely intact.
During the storm when the Andrea Gale is making its way through the numerous giant waves, we see George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg in the steering room being soaked and smashed around as the boat was basically going straight up and then straight down crashing into the water over and over again. Yet when they cut to the crew below, they are all sitting very calmly in their chairs or bunks with cups of coffee and other things sitting perfectly still on the table (which goes against the nailed down TV theory). It looks as if they are not even on a boat. Practically nothing in the whole room is moving.
In the beginning of the film, the crew of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's boat is unloading the body of a sailor who supposedly died while on their most recent expedition. However, when we see the names of all the Gloucester fisherman lost in 1991, it is only the names of the men lost on the Andrea Gail. [The list is only of those lost at sea. While the sailor died at sea, his body was returned].
During a scene in the film when the men are at sea you can hear the Alice in Chains song "Man in the Box" on the radio. This song was released in 1999 and the movie takes place in 1991. [It was released in 1990].
In the scene when the sailboat rolls over, you can clearly see that there is no keel.
The movie was set in 1991, but there is a newspaper with a Kia advertisement. Kia's first U.S. cars arrived in 1994.
When the Andrea Gail's owner comes in to the Crow's Nest to tell the "loved ones" that the rescue chopper had to ditch, Ethel says "If it were good news, he would have called us." Weren't the phones dead?
In the beginning of the movie when George Clooney is walking to his boat at night (outside the bar), pay close attention to the monitor inside his boat. At first, it shows a view of outside the boat, but when Clooney walks in front of it, the screen shows a picture of the director maing a slight wave at the camera. When George walks in front of it again, it turns back into the original scene.
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Oh Brother,where art thou?
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 Directed by Joel CoenWriting credits Ethan Coen
Plot:Three 1920's convicts escape from jail intent on getting to the loot stashed away by one of them. As this is at his house soon to be flooded by a new dam, speed is of the essence. They find themselves fast-talking their way out of one jam after another, and along the way not only have to be wary of riverside sirens but even get to make a pretty good country record.
Cast :George Clooney,John Turturro,Tim Nelson,John Goodman,Holly Hunter,Chris King, Charles Durning,Del Pentecost,Mike Badalucco
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Mistakes of"O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
The film takes place in the Thirties. The song "You are My Sunshine" is featured, but was not recorded by Jimmie Davis (its composer) until 1940.
When Clooney and the 2 other guys enter Holly Hunter's wedding, there's a close shot of Clooney where he addresses Hunter. Meanwhile, the music is playing and the others are singing. Behind Clooney you can see, out of focus, a man playing a guitar along with the music. When the music stops, we go back to Clooney's close shot (where he is still talking to Hunter) but the man behind him is still playing the guitar.
At the end of the movie when they sing "you are my sunshine" they movie into a L.S. and you can see that the words aren't synch in to their lips.
In the scene where George Clooney and the guys meet Baby Face, the money flying out from the back seat is currency from today not the 20's or 30's.
In the early part of the film, the three escaped convicts attempt to board a train, but fail, because it is moving too fast. Within a minute after it has passed, a man on a much slower hand-powered railcart appears, coming from the same direction as the train. Behind him is a single track for as far as can be seen. A blind man would not have been allowed to operate a pushcart, for the obvious reason that he would not have been able to see oncoming trains.
A frail old man, alone on a two-person pushcart, would also have lacked the strength to lift the cart from the tracks to avoid a collision. Clooney and one of his pals go into a theatre to watch a movie, with John Turturro and a group of jailed convicts sitting a few rows behind.
A neon "EXIT" sign is hanging in plain view in the back of the theatre. Obviously, there were no neon signs in movie theatres of the 1930s.
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Failsafe
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 Directed by Stephen FrearsWriting credits Eugene Burdick
Harvey Wheeler
Cast:George Clooney,Bill Smitrovich,Doris Belac,Harvey Keitel,Norman Lloyd,John Diehl,Sam Elliott,James Cromwell,Brian Dennehy,Don Cheadle,Grant Heslov,Tommy Hinkley,Richard Dreyfuss,Noah Wyle
Plot: Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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Three Kings
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 Directed by David O. RussellWriting:John Ridley David O. Russell
Cast:George Clooney,Mark Wahlberg,Ice Cube,Spike Jonze,Cliff Curtis,Nora Dunn,J. Kennedy
Saïd Taghmaoui,Judy Greer,Holt McCallany,Chris Lohr
Tagline: In a war without heroes they are kings.Plot Outline: In the aftermath of the Gulf War,4 soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who need their help.
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DVD Extras
On Warner Home Video's action-packed and feature-laden special edition of the Gulf-War story 'Three Kings' you can actually find a number of hidden features.To get a TV Spot, go to the disc's 'Special Features' menu, then select 'Production Notes' and from there go to the 'Origins'. Here, push the arrow key up and you should find a highlighted grenade. Press 'Enter' and a menu appears with the TV spot on it.There are two more Easter Eggs that reveal passwords to be used on the Three Kings DVD Events web-site. The site is not there yet, but as soon as Warner starts with the online events for this title, it will go live. To get the first one , go to the 'Special Features' menu then select the 'Cast & Crew' menu. Here push the arrow key up and you should see another grenade highlighted. Press 'Enter' to obtain the password 'SCUD'.The final one can be found by going to the 'Special Features' menu, and choosing 'Continue' until you get to the final menu. There push the arrow key down until another grenade is highlighted. Press 'Enter' and you will be given another password, 'BAGHDAD'. This Easter Egg is a contribution from our reader Richie Adamson.
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Movie mistakes in 3 Kings
In the beginning of the movie we see the dark-haired reporter questioning a soilder. When George Clooney walks up to her she clearly says "He don't know sh*t" twice. However even though her head is turned slighty the second time she says it, we do notice that her jaw is not even moving.
At times in the movie we see George Clooney handle solid bars of gold as if they were made of balsa wood, or chocolate. Gold is one of the heaviest metals, and bars the size of those depicted in the movie would weigh about 75 pounds.
Many people through the film are speaking Arabic and they are mostly Iraqi, but they are speaking dialects similar to Syrians & Lebanese.
It is said in the film that Ice Cube's character works in an airport in Detroit. When the scene shows Ice Cube at work as a baggage handler, there are mountains in the background. There are no mountains in the Detroit area.
When the castle is being attacked, Ice Cube dives away from an explosion. If you watch it in slow motion, you can see it's his stunt double.
Right after Troy and Chief try and pick up the luggage full of gold and it falls to the floor, Chief (Ice Cube) grabs what looks like a leather duffel bag and says something like, "these bags will hold about 65 pounds each." But in a previous post, someone said each of those gold bars would weigh about 75 lbs. So that means one bag, one bar....
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Waiting for Woody
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 Directed by Grant HeslovWriting credits Grant Heslov
Cast:George Clooney,Grant Heslov,Robert Katims,Samantha Mathis,Carol Ann Susi,Pamela Segall,Tate Donovan,Stacy Williams,Woody Allen,Jennifer Aniston,Richard Kind
Plot Outline: Grant Heslov plays an unlucky actor who sees hope when his agent gets him a meeting with Woody Allen, his idol.
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The Thin Red Line
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 Directed by Terrence MalickPlot Outline: Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
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 Directed by Steven SoderberghTagline: Opposites attract.
Plot Outline: A career bank robber breaks out of jail and shares a moment of mutual attraction with an FBI agent he has kidnapped.
Cast: George Clooney,Steve Zahn,Ving Rhames,Paul Soileau,Luis Guzmán,Elgin Marlow,Jim Robinson,Jennifer Lopez,Donna Frenzel,Manny Suárez,Keith Hudson,Scott Allen,Catherine Keene,Dennis Farina
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DVD Extras
Apart from a trailer to Steven Soderbergh’s “The Underneath” in the director’s filmography, Universal Home Video’s release of “Out Of Sight” also contains a number of real hidden features. Go to the “Language Selection” menu and highlight the entry called “Menu”. Now press the right arrow key and a Zippo lighter with some additional information will appear. The same thing works in the “Spoken Laguage” and the “Captions & Subtitles” submenus. This exciting feature was uncovered by Dave White and Jörg Bauer
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Movie mistakes of "Out of Sight"
In the scene where the convicts escape from the tunnel, Clooney comes out in a guards uniform, completely covered in mud. Yet when he lies in the trunk of the car with Jennifer Lopez his face is clean.
When George and Jennifer are sitting in the bar you can clearly see a microphone in the picture.
As anyone who has seen Jakie Brown will know the nice cop is called Ray Nicolette (i think thats how you spell it!). So did anyone notice that in out of sight the cop is also called Ray Nicolette and he's played by a guy who looks a lot like Michael Keaton (who played Nicolette in Jackie Brown). But on the credits Ray's last name is given as Cruts, was this a follow up of Ray's character from Jackie Brown or just a mistake by the out of sight actors???
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The Peacemaker
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 Directed by Mimi LederTagline: This is not a test.
Plot Outline: A US Army colonel and a civilian woman supervising him must track down stolen Russian nuclear weapons before they're used by terrorists.
Cast:George Clooney,Nicole Kidman,Marcel Iures,Rene Medvesek,Gary Werntz,Randall Batinkoff,Aleksandr Baluyev
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DVD Extras
Dreamworks Home Video have surprisingly hidden a feature in one of their first titles already. Go to the “Cast & Crew” section from the disc’s main menu. Press the “Arrow Up” button on the first page of the biography of George Clooney, Nicole Kidman or directress Mimi Leder to highlight the person’s portrait. Pressing “Enter” will now bring up an interview snippet with the according person. This exciting feature was uncovered by Michael Staley
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Movie mistakes of "The Peacemaker"
In one of the first scenes with Nicole Kidman, when she comes out off the water after swimming her shoulders and hair are very wet, next shot she is dry.
There is a big car chase scene through the streets of Vienna, Austria. As they fly down one of these Viennese streets, there are American STOP and one-way signs visible at the end of the road. All the scenes that should take place in Vienna, Austria, are shot in Bratislava, Slovakia. This explains why some of the traffic signs are wrong. But someone else said Prague. No more suggestions, please...
In the scene where George Clooney is fighting in the truck, there is blood on his left temple. Henceforth, when he is standing on the bridge, the injury is on his right temple.
As Nicole walks across a plaza with Clooney to meet the Russian spy, she is wearing sheer stockings and low pumps. As she walks off the plaza she is wearing knee high boots with fur tops.
The Digital logo on the laptop has been turned upside down especially for the film, since the logo would otherwise show upside down to the camera when the laptop is in use (most laptops are the same - the logo is the right way up to the user when the lid is shut).
In the end when our two heroes try to deactivate the atomic bomb, they manage to take away a little piece of explosive, so that the bomb will not do a nuclear explosion, only a conventional one. The problem with plutonium-bombs is that plutonium itself is extremely toxic when pulverised and dissolved into air. And an explosion would surely pulverise the bomb and all people (especially our two heroes being only some metres away) in the city would die in seconds because of intoxication....
At the beginning of the car chase in Vienna, Armin Müller-Stahl says, the car has every feature. Where are the airbags? They have several heavy collisions.
Where are the police? The chase takes about 8 minutes in the centre of the biggest city and capital of Austria, not to forget the using of the guns.
When she checks the mails on the AOL account: Why are all mails in English? They should be in German or Russian (Problem: they use an different alphabet, Cyrillic).
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Full Tilt Boogie (1997)
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 Directed by S. KellyCast:Robert Rodriguez,Quentin Tarantino,George Clooney,Juliette Lewis,Harvey Keitel
Lawrence Bender,Michael Parks,Fred Williamson
Tagline: Unzipped. Unwrapped. Unleashed!
Plot Outline:A documentary about the production of 'FROM DUSK TILL DAWN' and the people who made it.
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 Directed by Joel SchumacherCast:Arnold Schwarzenegger,George Clooney,Chris O'Donnell,Uma Thurman,Alicia Silverstone,Michael Gough,Pat Hingle,John Glover,Jeep Swenson,Elle Macpherson
Vivica A. Fox,Vendela Kirsebom,Elizabeth Sanders
Tagline: Strength. Courage. Honor. And loyalty.
Plot Outline:The Dynamic Duo battles the combined forces of Mr.Freeze and Poison Ivy .
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Movie mistakes in Batman and Robin
If Alicia Silverstone was born in England and has lived in England all these years, why doesn't she have any accent? Not really a goof, but "Oxbridge Academy"? I mean come on....
When Barbara is accessing the password in Alfred's files, the picture appears without dedication and after with dedication. [She's remembering two different pictures, her copy and her father's copy].
In one scene where our heroes are defrosting Gotham city using the sunlight, we see Commissioner Gordon stepping from his car which has been covered in flexible icicles.
The first confrontation with Mr. Freeze and his henchman involves them skating around a large ice covered area. The henchman are not using ice skates, but rollerblades. In the same scene we see ice skating blades pop out of Batman and Robin's boots, but when we actually see them skating, they are on rollerblades as well.
After Arnie freezes Robin, then freezes the doorway, then wipes his hand on the ice to wave goodbye to our hero, you can see that the clear spot is there before he wipes it with his hand.
If everyone had been frozen for that length of time, their blood would crystallise, which would kill them. I imagine some of the buildings and anything made of glass might crack as well, but I don't really know about that.
Poison Ivy becomes trapped in a plant that she was happily lying in before.
When first appears, Poison Ivy says to the Dr. Woodrue that her skin was replaced with chlorophyll. But chlorophyll is the substance that makes the green in the plants. So, if Ivy's skin was replaced with chlorophyll, why it isn't green?
When Ivy's arrived in Gotham and she is in a car, she puts a wig on, but when she is talking to Bruce in the observatory she is wearing a different wig.
n one of the scenes when Freeze is going to take the diamonds from Ivy's neck, you can clearly see that he has no make-up in his neck (and it isn´t an effect of the lights, he has really no make-up).
The "cold zone" in the cell where Freeze is prisoner is something physically and chemically impossible.
It's impossible that the three bad guys could survive from the jump they made of that high cell. It was a really big altitude and the water is like concrete from that high. So it would be the same damage that if they jumped from a high building to the street. And anyway, from that high they would die before reach the water, because of the pressure.
Maybe I am a fool, but I still can't find out why Mr. Freeze has in his own home a "hot/cold" switch. I mean, he needs cold to survive. It's like I had a "pure air/toxic gas" switch in my house.
The two scientists that are frozen in the observatory stay frozen for more than eleven minutes, but when Batman heats them they are in perfect state.
Isn't it funny how Batman has gone through so many costume modifications in his movies, yet in the scene where Bain holds him off the ground and Ivy presses close, you can still see the holes that Catwoman made on his side in the second movie?
The new Batmobile has no cockpit shield above it. Would it not be hard to drive that thing at its top speeds with the wind blowing in his face?
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One Fine Day (1996)
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 Directed by M. HoffmanTagline: She was having a perfectly bad day... Then he came along and spoiled it.
Cast:George Clooney,Mae Whitman,Michelle Pfeiffer,Alex D. Linz,Charles Durning,Jon Robin Baitz,Ellen Greene,Anna Maria Horsford,Gregory Jbara,Barry Kive,Joe Grifasi,Pete Hamill
Sheila Kelley,Robert Klein
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Movie mistakes of "One Fine Day"
Right after Clooney picks the kids up from pre-school. It was superhero day, so the kids are dressed in homemade costumes. If you watch the little girl, she changes back and fourth between superhero and little girl within the blink of an eye.
When Melanie Parker (Michelle Pfeiffer) first appears at her neighbour's front door she is carrying a fishbowl.
A few scenes later she is hurrying down the street to the school and the fishbowl now has plastic covering the top.
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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
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 Directed by Robert RodriguezWriting :R. Kurtzman
Writing:Q.Tarantino
Tagline: Vampires. No Interviews.
Plot Outline: Two brother criminals and their hostages encounter vampires at a Mexican bar.
Cast: Harvey Keitel,George Clooney,Q. Tarantino,Juliette Lewis,Ernest Liu,Salma Hayek,Cheech Marin,Danny Trejo,Fred Williamson,Tom Savini,Michael Parks,Kelly Preston,John Saxon
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Movie mistakes of "From Dusk Till Dawn"
After Frost gets bitten he throws Sex Machine through a thin plastered window. Bats have been trying to get inside the Titty Twister all the time. The thing is that the bats, who lived there, didn't know that there was this thin plastered window?
In Quentin Tarantino's original script Jacob kills Salma Hayek and saves Seth this way. But this was changed and Seth kills her himself. After the battle Jacob says something about that he rescued Seth although he could let him die. This makes no sense after the scene was changed.
There are already two sequels/prequels, but in every movie Danny Trejo plays the barkeeper although he got killed in the first movie.
In the motel scene with the hostage, Quentin Tarantino is eating a burger and drinking liquor, mixed up with different camera angles.
When Frost, the black guy, got bitten he turned into a vampire within a few seconds. After Jacob got bitten it took him half an hour to turn into a vampire.
Sex Machine was the only guy who heard these voices before turning into a vampire.
After the huge battle in the bar Frost says something that they should be burning right now or something like that. And just in that moment all vampires ignite. Well, that´s fine comedy but it´s impossible.All the vampires didn´t die at the same time.
In the end Kate is shooting holes in the walls in order to let the sun shine in. Then, sunbeams come in from all sides. That´s impossible. The sun, especially in the morning, is shining in only one direction.
When all the vampires get hit by the sunbeams they explode, with no fire. But when Carlos frees them and the sun shines in all vampires explode into a huge fireball.
As the Gecko brothers and their hostages enter the Titty Twister Denny Trejo, the barkeeper, wants to have them out of there. In the original script there is a scene that explains why the barkeeper doesn´t want to have them there. In the movie this scene was not shot and so many people wonder why the barkeeper reacted that way.
Near the end Jacob rams his pumpgun into Frost's belly. Then he swings out, ready to punch him. Frost somehow gets frightened and dies before Jacob can slug him. Not very convincing.
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Without Warning: Terror in the Towers (1993) (TV)
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 Directed by Alan J. LeviWriter:S. Downing
Writer:D. Poole
Plot: Aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing.
Cast:James Avery,Andre Braugher,George Clooney,Fran Drescher,John Karlen,Scott Plank
Susan Ruttan,Michael Stoyanov,Kris Dakota,Kenneth Forrester,Robin Thomas,Charles Bernard,Carl Clissmeyer,Aaron Fitzgerald,David Gome
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Unbecoming Age (1992)
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 Directed by Alfredo and Deborah RingelWriter:M. Baer
Writer:G. Prysir
Cast:Diane Salinger,John Calvin,Colleen Camp,Priscilla Pointer,George Clooney,Shera Danese,Nicholas Guest,Anthony Peck,Don Diamont,Michael Greene,Dayle Haddon
Plot Summary: A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is. Her husband works long hours as an advertising executive and neglects his family while asking her "what do you do all day long?" What she does is work hard keeping the family together. An intelligent family film
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Filmography courtesy of IMDB
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