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Co-starring: Michael D. Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Kim Robillard, Beth Grant, Ray Baker, Ralph Tabakin, Chris Mulkey (voice), Reni Santoni (voice), Bonnie Hunt, Lynne Marie Stewart (voice), Jonathan Stark (voice), Jake Hoffman, Barry Levinson (uncredited)

Director Trademark Barry Levinson: [Ralph Tabakin] (Shift Boss) has appeared in every Levinson picture from Diner (1982) to Liberty Heights (1999).

Director Cameo Barry Levinson: psychiatrist determining if Raymond should stay with Charlie or not.

Dustin Hoffman said the "hot water burn baby" bathtub scene was one he dreaded filming because he was unsure of how to play it. Ultimately he channeled his anger and frustration about doing the scene to convey the emotions of Raymond.

The radio station 97 bam was on the fm dial. A 1949 buick only had an AM radio so it could not recieve that channel in that car

Bonnie Hunt has a cameo as a waitress in a scene with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman. She co-starred with Robin Williams in Jumanji (1995). Hoffman and Williams co-starred in Hook (1991). And she also starred with Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire (1996)

The "Blackjack" dealer at Caesars Palace is named Nick Mazzola. He was also the "War" dealer in the movie "Vegas Vacation" as well as a dealer in the movie "Casino". In real life, Nick was actually a real Blackjack dealer at Caesars Palace in the 1970s and 1980s.

The song "Iko-Iko" played during the opening credits also plays during the opening credits of Mission: Impossible II (2000), also starring Cruise. Both films are also scored by Hans Zimmer.

Dr.Bruner says that he is trustee of Raymond's inheritance fund but the hospital receives nothing from that. His medical bills including Walbrook are most likely paid for by Medicaid. Raymond qualifies because he has a severe mental disability. His personal items and needs are taken care of by the fund.

The movie playing on the hotel television when Charlie and Susanna are making love is Sweet Smell of Success which was also referenced in Levinson's Diner (by a character who recited dialog from the movie).

The script originally called for two farm kids, but after Catherine Dougherty brought six of her seven sons to audition for the part, the script was re-written to include the six boys. The boys also have an older brother and one younger sister.

Early in the film, when the lawyer is reading the will to Charlie, Charlie says "I definitely got the rose bushes, I have definitely got the rose bushes." This foreshadows Raymond's extensive use of the word "definitely" later on.

Dustin Hoffman is 24 years, 10 months, and 25 days older than Tom Cruise, who plays his younger brother.

"Wallbrook", the building at the back of the long, tree lined drive, is actually Saint Anne's, a convent that houses over 200 nuns, and is located in Melbourne, Kentucky.

Warner Brothers had, at one point, the opportunity to make both "Rain Man" and Forrest Gump (1994) but ended up with neither because of concerns they were too similar. Peter Guber and Jon Peters' production company, which had picked up the script for "Rain Man", had a first look deal with the studio. However, Roger Birnbaum, an executive with the production company, felt that because Warner Brothers was also developing "Forrest Gump", they would likely let "Rain Man" die if they were to pick it up, because of the script's perceived similarity. So, reportedly, he purposely gave a weak pitch to the studio in the hopes that they would reject it and allow it to be pitched to another studio. This did in fact occur and United Artists ended up making the film. After the movie's enormous success, Warner Brothers decided to pass on "Forrest Gump" because they felt that audiences would be unlikely to go to a movie with such a similar theme as "Rain Man". "Forrest Gump," which most people would consider to be an entirely different type of film than "Rain Man", ended up being made by Paramount and became one of the most successful movies of all time, grossing almost $330,000,000 in U.S. theaters.

Dustin Hoffman originally wanted Bill Murray to play Charlie.

J.T. Walsh was originally supposed to play the psychiatrist at the end of the movie. When he couldn't, Barry Levinson filled in, after Hoffman suggested it. Levinson said if he didn't like the way it looked, he would have someone else film it. He ad-libbed repeatedly to "push Cruise's buttons".

The number 3762 seen on the windscreen of a car is Tom Cruise's birthday - 3 July '62.

Dustin Hoffman was originally supposed to play Charlie, but he wanted to play Raymond. Raymond was also supposed to be mentally disabled, but Hoffman changed it to an autistic savant.

Screenwriter Barry Morrow chose the name of the film by reading through a book of names, deciding which sounded most interesting when mispronounced. He eventually narrowed it down to four names, including "Rain Man" for Raymond and "No-Man" for Norman. Marrow decided that Rain Man was the best. In order to see if this instinct was correct, he asked his children which of the four they preferred and all agreed with his choice.

Raymond memorizes a phone book up to the names Marsha and William Gottsegen - Dustin Hoffman's real-life in-laws.

The script was originally written with real-life brothers Randy Quaid and Dennis Quaid in mind.

Dustin Hoffman spent a year working with autistic men and their families to understand their complex relationships. Also, when he was a jobbing actor, he had worked in a psychiatric care home, and drew from his experiences then for the film.

Dustin Hoffman insisted that Raymond Babbitt should be an autistic savant, instead of being mentally disabled. His insistence was largely responsible for Martin Brest quitting the project.

Dustin Hoffman was originally to play the part of Charlie Babbit, but after being moved to tears seeing a savant named Leslie Lemke (who is blind, mentally handicapped, and has cerebral palsy) play full concertos on the piano by ear, he decided to play the part of Raymond instead.

The part of Susanna had originally been written as a WASPish blonde woman. By having a foreigner play the role, whose native tongue wasn't English, it allowed for Tom Cruise's character to do a lot of exposition.

Both Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro turned down the part of Raymond.

Hoffman's former New York roommate, Gene Hackman, was vying with him for Best Actor for Mississippi Burning (1988). When Hoffman won, he hugged Hackman as he left his seat on the way to the podium where he affectionately mentioned Hackman in his acceptance speech. He failed to mention Tom Cruise however.

Dustin Hoffman spent a lot of time with savant Kim Peek, the inspiration for Raymond's character. Rain Man writer Barry Morrow first met Peek in 1986, and on winning an Oscar for the screenplay of "Rain Man" in 1989, gave his Oscar trophy to Kim Peek. Hoffman made Kim's father (the main caregiver) a promise that he would "share [Kim] with the world." For nearly 20 years until his death, Kim Peek went all over the world impressing people with his incredible memory and ability to recall minute details from centuries of history.

During filming, Dustin Hoffman was unsure of the film's potential and his own performance. Three weeks into the project, Hoffman wanted out, telling director Barry Levinson, "Get Richard Dreyfuss, get somebody, Barry, because this is the worst work of my life." Hoffman would nab his second Best Actor Academy Award for his work.

Jake Hoffman, the boy at the pancake counter, is Dustin Hoffman's son.

The elderly man in the waiting room who talks on and on about the Pony Express is Byron P. Cavnar, an 89-year-old local who was in the waiting room when the crew arrived to film there. He got to talking on his favorite subject, the Pony Express, and director Barry Levinson got such a kick out of it that he let Caunar keep on talking as the cameras rolled; all his dialog was spontaneous and not scripted.

The scene in the airport was cut by most airlines on their plane trips... except Qantas. They even promoted one of the movie's writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.

On "Oprah", Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman said the "farting in the phone booth" bit was improvised when Hoffman actually passed gas while the scene was being filmed. Hoffman said it was his favorite scene ever.

Also starring: Lukas Hass

Based on the real life cross country trek of Hugh Glass when he was mauled by a grizzly bear, left for dead, and crawled 200 miles back to civilization in 1823. He vowed vengeance on those who took his supplies and left him, spending the next several years hunting them down.

Will Poulter played the role of Jim Bridger. Brad Pitt's character (Lt. Aldo Raine) from Quentin Tarantino's film Inglorious Basterds (2009) quoted himself as being a "direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger".

This film reunites Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, and Lukas Haas. They previously appeared together in Inception (2010).

Tom Hardy watched Tom Berenger in Platoon (1986) for inspiration.

The 1971 film Man in the Wilderness, featuring actors Richard Harris and John Huston, was loosely based on Hugh Glass's story, but it had differently named characters. The Revenant (2015) is based directly on Hugh Glass' story, according to the 2003 book by Michael Punke.

The Revenant (2015) marks the return of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to Western cinema. He is best known for his Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award-winning musical score for Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987). Sakamoto's last effort in a Hollywood production was Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes (1998).

Alejandro González Iñárritu's temperamental nature, along with the high-pressure schedule and unpleasant filming conditions, made it a very difficult shoot and caused several crew members to leave the project.

Leonardo DiCaprio had to devour a raw slab of bison's liver, even though he is vegetarian. He also had to learn to shoot a musket, build a fire, speak two Native American languages (Pawnee and Arikara), and study with a doctor who specializes in ancient healing techniques. DiCaprio calls it the hardest performance of his career.

Also starring: Steven Berkoff, Annie Lennox, Dexter Fletcher, Richard O'Brien, Paul Brooke, Graham Greene, Larry Sellers, Adrian Rawlins, Robbie Coltrane, Jonathan Adams, Joe Wright, Felicity Dean, Jesse Birdsall, Matthew Sim, Kate Hardie

Offscreen Revolutionary: Get out of here, you Negro!

Offscreen Slave: We want freedom too!

The film was on its release the biggest and most expensive box-office disaster in British film history and was almost single-handedly responsible for a decade-long financial crisis in the industry after the massive losses scared off city financing for British films for years to come.

Robert Duvall, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman and Sam Shepard all passed on the role of Tom Dobb.

Frank Windsor is credited as Gen. George Washington in the end titles but is not seen in the film. Somewhat bizarrely, Hugh Hudson blamed the casting of an English actor as the first American president for the vitriolic reaction the film received from American critics and its subsequent spectacular box-office failure.

Al Pacino was ill with pneumonia during much of the filming.

Co-starring: Simon Baker and Terence Stamp

[first lines] Commander Kate Bowman: [narration] By the year 2000 we had begun to over populate, pollute, and poison our planet faster than we could clean it up. We ignored the problem for as long as we could. But we were kidding ourselves. By 2025, we knew we were in trouble. And began to desperately search for a new home - Mars. For the last 20 years we've been sending unmanned probes with algae, bio-engineered to grow there and produce oxygen. We're going to build ourselves an atmosphere we can breathe. And for 20 years it seemed to worked. It looked like we pulled it off. We'd done it. Then all of a sudden, oxygen levels started to drop. We don't know why.

The film was originally titled "Alone". During pre-production the title was changed to "Mars", changed again to avoid confusion with Mission to Mars, and finally changed to "Red Planet".

The main lyric to The Police song used during the "still" scene is, "When the World is Running Down (You Make the Best of What's Still Around)," an apt description of the movie's plot.

Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore began feuding during production. According to reports, it all began when Kilmer got annoyed about a fancy exercise machine that Sizemore wanted shipped from England to the set in Australia. Eventually the two hated each other so much Kilmer would not come out of his trailer if Sizemore was on the set. Many of their scenes together were filmed over shoulders of photo doubles. Kilmer reportedly refused to say Sizemore's character's name, saying instead "Hey, you!"

When Gallagher gets back to the ship and gives Bowman the rock, she asks if it is a 'memento'. Carrie-Anne Moss (Bowman) starred in the movie Memento made in the same year.

In her report back to Earth, Bowman refers to the state of HAB as being "tango uniform". This is phonetic military slang for "tits up", meaning dead or destroyed.

Meg Ryan was offered the role of Kate Bowman.

Also starring: Laurence Fishburne, Gina Gershon, Richard Bright, J.W. Smith,Brent Jennings, Gretchen Palmer, Pruitt Taylor Vince,Mike Hagerty, Brion James, Peter Jason, Allan Graf,Roger Callard, Tiger Chung Lee, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Luis Contreras



Art Ridzik: Captain Danko, congratulations. You are now the proud owner of the most powerful handgun in the world.

Ivan Danko: Soviet Patparine, nine-point-two milimeter, is world's most powerful handgun.

Art Ridzik: Oh, come on, everybody knows the .44 Magnum is the big boy on the block. Why do you think Dirty Harry uses it?

Ivan Danko: Who is Dirty Harry?

The film crew applied for a permit to film in the Red Square but the application was denied, so the crew had to "sneak-film" the Red Square scenes. They dressed Arnold up in the uniform and filmed him as though making an amateur/home movie with just a couple of crew people present.

Ivan Danko (Schwarzenegger) uses a gun called "Podbyrin 9.2 mm". Its actually a modified western Desert Eagle Magnum. The Podbyrin does not exist. Its a made up prop for the movie.

The film is dedicated to its stunt coordinator, Bennie E. Dobbins. Dobbins died of a heart attack on the set while staging the film's snow fight scene in Vienna.

Arnold Schwarzenegger spent three months learning to speak Russian. James Belushi spent two weeks working at a Chicago police district headquarters.

Walter Hill, thinking Arnold Schwarzenegger was too muscular, asked him to lose ten pounds for his role and James Belushi, to gain ten pounds.

The drug dealer wearing a white suit called 'Lupo' that Rostavili (Ed O'Ross) meets outside the bus station is the same 'Lupo' that appears in Extreme Prejudice (also played there by Luis Contreras). He appears at the end after Nick Nolte has shot Powers Boothe, and tells him "now you get to wear the white suit".

In an attempt to best convey to Arnold Schwarzenegger how he should capture the essence of his character, Walter Hill suggested that he watch Greta Garbo's performance in Ninotchka and emulate her character. Schwarzenegger complied and, according to Hill, got a handle on his character right away.

In the scene at the fitness studio where Viktor 'Rosta' Rostavili's girlfriend works, people are exercising to music. The record they are dancing to is Ramos - Jackin' National Anthem. This is a very early House Music track. House music originated in Chicago where the film is set, but at that time would not have been well known outside of Chicago. Chicago spawned this music genre and this is the earliest use of House Music in mainstream movies. Around the time of the making of this film, Acid House was just starting. This music was also from Chicago but relatively unknown outside the city at the time was produced using a Japanese synthesizer called a Roland TB-303. 303 is also the hotel room number that Arnold Schwarzenegger stays in.

In this film and Raw Deal, Arnold Schwarzenegger is compared to Det. "Dirty" Harry Callahan for his weapon choice.

AMlso starring: Alan Rickman, Brian Blessed, Michael Wincott, Nick Brimble, and Sean Connery as "King Richard" (uncredited)

arian: You came for me... You're alive... Robin Hood: I would die for you.

Rumor has it that Kevin Costner wanted to use an English accent, but director Kevin Reynolds didn't want him to. Supposedly, Costner would affect the accent when he was arguing with Reynolds, but not when they were in agreement. Costner claims that he was initially asked to use an accent and hired a dialect coach, but this was stopped (and the coach was fired) when he did it poorly.

Robin Wright was the original choice to play Maid Marian but she had to drop out as she was pregnant with her first child. The part went instead to Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio four days before shooting started. (Wright would land the lead in The Playboys the following year because the original actress, Annette Bening, had become pregnant too.)

Johnny Depp turned down the role of Will Scarlett.

Sean Connery 's cameo: King Richard. Connery got $250,000 for two days work. He donated it to charity. Connery himself played Robin Hood in Robin and Marian.

Cary Elwes was offered the role of Robin Hood and turned it down because he thought the plot was too contrived. He did however portray the character in the Mel Brooks spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Alan Rickman turned down the role of the Sheriff twice before he was told he could more or less have carte blanche with his interpretation of the character.

The line that Will Scarlett says after he launches Robin and Azeem over the wall, "*beep* me, he cleared it!" is an ad-lib by Christian Slater that director Kevin Reynolds dubbed to "blow me, he cleared it".

On Breakfast TV in the UK, Mel Gibson said he was the offered the lead but he had just done a period film (Hamlet) and passed.

A body double was used for Kevin Costner's nude scene under the waterfall.

Also starring: Jack Gwillim, Elizabeth Ashley, Byron Allen, Liane Curtis, Ian Patrick Williams, Jeff Austin