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| Year: | 2009 |
| Rating: | 7.6(14287) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Romance |
| Directed by: | Tom Ford |
| Actors: | Colin Firth Nicholas Hoult Matthew Goode Jon Kortajarena Julianne Moore Paulette Lamori |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Tom Ford | |
| Actors | |
| Colin Firth | as Prof. George Falconer |
| Nicholas Hoult | as Kenny Porter |
| Matthew Goode | as Jim |
| Jon Kortajarena | as Carlos |
| Teddy Sears | as Mr. Strunk |
| Paul Butler | as Christopher Strunk |
| Aaron Sanders | as Tom Strunk |
| Lee Pace | as Grant |
| Adam Shapiro | as Myron |
| Ridge Canipe | as Young Boy |
| Don Bachardy | |
| Brad Benedict | as Tennis Player |
| Richard Buckley | as Man in waiting room |
| Ryan Butcher | as Pedestrian |
| Brent Gorski | as Walter |
| Jon Hamm | as Hank Ackerley |
| Gary Sievers | as Teacher |
| Actresses | |
| Julianne Moore | as Charley |
| Paulette Lamori | as Alva |
| Ryan Simpkins | as Jennifer Strunk |
| Ginnifer Goodwin | as Mrs. Strunk |
| Aline Weber | as Lois |
| Keri Lynn Pratt | as Blonde Secretary |
| Jenna Gavigan | as Other Secretary No. 1 |
| Alicia Carr | as Other Secretary No. 2 |
| Marlene Martinez | as Maria |
| Elisabeth Harnois | as Young Woman |
| Erin Daniels | as Bank Teller |
| Nicole Steinwedell | as Doris |
| Tricia Munford | as Cashier |
| Janelle Gill | as Rifle Girl |
| Patrizia Milano | as Faculty Member |
| Mimi Page | as Party Girl |
| Bria Sherinian | as College Student |
| Sarah Smick | as Bookstore Cashier |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Spanish |
| Budget: | USD 7,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 920,532 USD (27 December 2009) UK - 2,653,668 GBP (14 March 2010) Argentina - 91,203 ARS (11 May 2010) |
| Plot: | It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to tell George of the death or accident let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Beaudelaire" Written and Performed by Serge Gainsbourg "Moon Over Manhattan" Written by Robert Stoll "Scene D'Amour" Written by Bernard Herrmann |
Goofs
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DATE: Most of the phones shown have modular RJ11 type connectors for the handsets which were not introduced until the mid 1970s. Phones of this era would have had heavier hardwired handset cords. Continuity: At the end of the movie the bandage that Kenny puts on George's forehead originally doesn't entirely cover the cut. Shortly thereafter it does. DATE: Kenny uses the expressions "cool" and "blows my mind" during the bar conversation. "Cool" was an adjective, not an exclamation, in the early 1960s. It and "mind-blowing" were usages that came in with the Hippy era of the late 1960s. DATE: The bar at Charly's house prominently displays Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon (the round bottle with the horse and jockey stopper) which has only been around since 1984. DATE: Although the film takes place in 1962, the rolled SUV in which Jim is killed is a '73 or later Chevy or GMC Blazer. Continuity: Jullianne Moore's hairdo goes through numerous changes during there evening at her home. Sometimes the curls are tighter and then looser. Once the bang is heavy and then it is lighter. DATE: The single malt whisky that George is drinking is a 20 year old North Port from the Rare Malts Series that wasn't introduced till 1999. Continuity: The red pencil sharpeners are displayed in neatly arranged, complete rows, and after one is removed, the next shot of the array of pencil sharpeners shows complete, undisturbed rows. Continuity: Although George spends several minutes deciding how best to off himself, the clock on the bedside table remains unchanged. Continuity: The dancing ashtray: When the main character is in front of his class, the ashtray on the desk keeps moving from back to front depending on the camera angle. Obviously they shot the scene from one angle, went back and did it at another angle and in the meantime the ashtray had been moved. The intercutting of the angles resulted in the "dancing" ashtray. DATE: The aria "Ebben Ne andro lontana" from Catalani's opera La Wally is used in the film. The recording was released in 1992 by Naxos. The singer Miriam Gauci was born in 1957. That would have made her 5 years old at the time of the movie. Revealing mistakes: When George gets into his car after his lecture, a contemporary Mercedes Benz, the leather inner panel of the car door looks old and wrinkled, revealing it's indeed an old-timer. Continuity: When Charley starts dancing the second song, on the table in front of George, there's a green bottle and to the right a black one. In the next scene the black bottle is in front of the green one. Continuity: George (Colin Firth) puts his arm on the right shoulder of Charley (Julianne Moore) while they are sitting on the couch. In the next shot, he puts his arm on her again. Fact errors: An opening title places the action on 30 November 1962, but from the car radio and various conversations, the action clearly takes place during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which, in fact, took place in October 1962. Revealing mistakes: In the parking lot scene outside the liquor store, the white Corvette in the background is a Stingray. Chevrolet didn't introduce them until the 1963 model year. The coupe for that year had a "split" rear window. The one shown in the scene is a 1964 or later which wouldn't be possible in November 1962, even if the 1963 model had been available. DATE: There are several typographic anachronisms including the use of Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Gotham (2000) for all of the office door signs at the university (also used in the movie's titles), and Trajan (1989) and Gill Sans (not popularized in the US until the 1970s) in the bank's logo. Fact errors: On November 30, 1962, a full moon is shown. In fact, the moon on that date was a very thin crescent. DATE: The water carafe used in the bedroom is made by Danish Rosendahl, and wasn't introduced until the end of the 1990s. DATE: When George is leaving for work in his car and he is looking at the girl who lives in the house across the street dancing in slow-motion, the house behind her has dimensional-style shingles which were not available until the 1980s. Crew: During the dance scene with George and Charley, while the song "Green Onions" is playing, you can see a crew member in the mirror. Continuity: When George is peeking at his neighbors from the toilet, his neighbors house is on the right side of his house. But when he's leaving for work, he drives from the right side of his neighbors house, which suggests his neighbors are on left side of his house. Fact errors: In the scene of the infarct, the protagonist shows pain in the right arm, when in an infarct it's the one is the left arm that hurts. DATE: In several shots, a pinkish, non-reflective coating can be seen on Falconer's glasses. Such coatings are a relatively modern invention, and not available in 1962. |
Quotes
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Jennifer Strunk: Would you like to meet Charlton Heston? He's our scorpion. Every night we throw in something new to him and watch him kill it. Daddy says it's like a Coliseum. Daddy says he wants to throw you into the Coliseum. George: No kidding. Why? Jennifer Strunk: Well, he says you're light in your loafers. But you're not even wearing any loafers. George: [whispered] Just get through the goddamn day. Grant: There will be no time for sentiment when the Russians fire a missile at us. George: If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, Grant, it's not a world that I want to live in. George: Looking in the mirror staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. George: I always used to tell him that only fools could possibly escape the simple truth that now isn't simply now: it's a cold reminder. One day later than yesterday, one year later than last year, and that sooner or later it will come. George: It takes time in the morning for me to become George, time to adjust to what is expected of George and how he is to behave. By the time I have dressed and put the final layer of polish on the now slightly stiff but quite perfect George I know fully what part I'm suppose to play. George: For the first time in my life I can't see my future. Everyday goes by in a haze, but today I have decided will be different. George: [last lines; voiceover] A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be. Carlos: No one has ever picked me up and not wanted something. George: I think you picked me up. Carlos: Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty. George: The bathroom's just down the hall, if you'd like to take a shower. Kenny: Aren't you taking a shower too, Sir? George: Oh, I'm fine, I'm English, we like to be cold and wet. |
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