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| Year: | 2002 |
| Rating: | 6.2(24033) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
| Directed by: | Andrew Niccol |
| Actors: | Al Pacino Benjamin Salisbury Darnell Williams Jim Rash Ron Perkins Winona Ryder |
| "A star is... created." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Andrew Niccol | |
| Actors | |
| Al Pacino | as Viktor Taransky |
| Benjamin Salisbury | as Production Assistant |
| Darnell Williams | as Studio Executive #1 |
| Jim Rash | as Studio Executive #2 |
| Ron Perkins | as Studio Executive #3 |
| Jay Mohr | as Hal Sinclair |
| Jeffrey Pierce | as Kent |
| Jeff Williams | as Man in Suit |
| Christopher Neiman | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Derrex Brady | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Darin Heames | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Patrick J. Dancy | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Adrian R'Mante | as Premiere Audience Member |
| David Doty | as Theater Owner |
| Barry Papick | as Walter, Security Guard |
| James Gleason | as Reporter |
| Richard Saxton | as Reporter |
| Vincent Boling | as Reporter |
| Mark Thompson | as Reporter |
| Keith MacKechnie | as Reporter |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | as Max Sayer |
| Jason Schwartzman | as Milton |
| Alan Loayza | as Valet Manager |
| Chris Coppola | as Echo Photographer |
| Lombardo Boyar | as Paparazzi Photographer |
| Robert Musgrave | as Mac |
| Rod Simmons | as Hewlett |
| Hal Ozsan | as Hotel Concierge |
| Henry D. Zapata | as Studio Executive |
| Stanley Anderson | as Frank Brand |
| Christopher Comes | as Concert Promoter |
| Brad 'Chip' Pope | as Concert Technician #1 |
| Gordon Simmons | as Concert Technician #2 |
| Bill A. Jones | as Talk Show Host #2 |
| Daniel Do | as Monk |
| Clyde Tull | as Priest |
| Moss Mossberg | as Rabbi |
| Ronnie W. Elliot Sr. | as Arresting Officer |
| Daniel von Bargen | as Chief Detective |
| Charles Noland | as Detective |
| Chris Marley | as Diver |
| Sean Cullen | as Bernard, Lawyer |
| Alec Murdock | as VBC Anchor |
| Alex Boling | as Man |
| Jim Brockhohn | as Concert Goer |
| Tony Crane | as Lenny |
| Edward C. Gillow | as Reporter |
| Phil Hawn | as Movie Theater Patron |
| Elias Koteas | as Hank Alano |
| Actresses | |
| Winona Ryder | as Nicola Anders |
| Catherine Keener | as Elaine Christian |
| Evan Rachel Wood | as Lainey Christian Taransky |
| Rachel Roberts | as Simone |
| Mitzi Martin | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Carole Androsky | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Jolie Jenkins | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Lisa Cerasoli | as Premiere Audience Member |
| Maureen Mueller | as Entertainment Reporter |
| Andi Carnick | as Reporter |
| Jenni Blong | as Jane |
| Susan Chuang | as Lotus |
| Deborah Rawlings | as Corel |
| Christina Rydell | as Claris |
| Jaehne Moebius | as Drunk Woman |
| Claudia Jordan | as Simone Lookalike |
| Teresa Parente | as Talk Show Host #1 |
| Lily Cunningham | as Little Kid |
| Meave Cunningham | as Little Kid |
| Diane Hudock | as Woman |
| Rebecca Romijn | as Faith |
| Camille Wainwright | as Katie Crom |
| Nancy Young | as Party Guest #3 |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 7 September 2000 - November 2000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 9,680,913 USD (6 October 2002) UK - 147,372 GBP (27 October 2002) Argentina - 97,809 USD (11 February 2003) Italy - 777,582 EUR (24 November 2002) Russia - 362,884 USD (27 July 2003) Spain - 201,930 EUR (22 September 2002) |
| Plot: | The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Adagio for Strings" Written by Samuel Barber Performed by Dale Warland Singers Courtesy of American Choral Catalogue "Requiem - in Paradisum" Written by Gabriel Fauré Performed by La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique with Philippe Herreweghe Courtesy of Harmonia Mundi USA "Rogue Motel" Written by Curt Sobel and Gary Schreiner "The Girl I Dream About" Written by B. Caldwell and H. Marx Performed by Bobby Caldwell Courtesy of Sin Drome Records, Ltd. "Patricia" Written by Dámaso Pérez Prado Performed by Pete Snell "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman" Written by Carole King, Gerry Goffin and Jerry Wexler Performed by Mary J. Blige Courtesy of MCA Records Under license from Universal Music Enterprises "Requiem - Pie Jesu" Written by Gabriel Fauré Performed by Oxford Camerata and Schola Cantorum of Oxford J. Summerly, conductor Courtesy of Naxos of America By Arrangement with Source/Q |
Goofs
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FAIR: Under Academy rules a performer can be nominated for only one performance in any acting category. This rule is broken deliberately - Simone is so wonderful that the Academy is prepared to break its own rules for her. Revealing mistakes: When Elaine is driving and talking to Simone, there is a Land Rover behind her. In the lane next to her is a Porsche and the same Land Rover, and in the third lane, yet the same Porsche and another copy of the same Land Rover. Continuity: Lainey ejects the "The Plague ver 8.1" disk from a different machine to the one that Taransky put it into. Continuity: After Elaine and Lainey find the computer and the virus, they restore it. However, Viktor threw the hard disk away. Continuity: Lainey's hair while at Viktor's computer after his arrest. Continuity: While Viktor is speaking to Simone after "Sunrise, sunset" premiere, he puts on the table a glass which alternates between being full and empty between shots. Continuity: When Viktor says "with Hank's tragic passing his secret did die with him" we see a newspaper with a message about Hank's passing under a glass, which is supposedly on the table in front of Victor. But there is no newspaper there in any other shot. Continuity: While Viktor is conducting talk show "Good morning, good day" with Simone, different items (ashtray, a bottle of beer, a glass, a pen) appear and disappear on the table on his right between shots. Continuity: At the end of the movie (at a supermarket) the camera and string that Victor is holding switch hands between shots. DATE: In several instances, modern photographers are shown using ancient flash bulbs. Flash bulbs were long ago rendered obsolete by modern electronic flash units. As each flash bulb can be used only once, and as no company has manufactured them for years, the existing supply of flash bulbs is diminishing, making them fairly rare and costly items today. There may very well be some photographers who prefer to use flash bulbs for some high-minded artistic projects, but nobody would waste them on the kind of photography for which they were shown being used in this movie. Continuity: In the hotel when the reporter feels the toilet seat, you can see that the toilet roll hasn't been used as it is still in a triangle. Continuity: When the hologram is created for the concert, there is an actual microphone present which is not part of the hologram. During the song Simone is singing with the microphone in her hands, the microphone is missing from the standard. Fact errors: When Lainey presses the eject button, the floppy disk ejects from under a blank cover plate, not from the floppy drive. Also, 5 1/4" disk drives in PCs did not eject disks electronically. The disk had to be ejected mechanically from the drive. CHAR: Viktor writes "I love you Vic" on the hotel mirror. This should be "Vik". CHAR: The hard drive which holds "S1m0ne" data is shown to be without a cover over the disk platters. Viktor ('Al Pacino' (qv)) is shown to put his hands on the surface of the top platter when he inserts the hard disk into his PC. Any reasonably well informed PC user or repairman knows that a hard disk's platters are extremely sensitive to both dust and finger oils: exposing the platters to open air and finger oils would quickly render the hard disk useless. While we can't expect Viktor to know this, we can expect his scientist/supplier Hank Alano to have known this. Hank Alano should not have provided such an obviously unreliable piece of PC hardware. Revealing mistakes: Viktor is shown inserting Frank Aleno's hard drive into Viktor's PC by simply laying it down inside a tray, in the same way that one inserts a CD or DVD into a PC. While removable hard disks do exist, they work nothing like this. All hard disks have power and data plugs along one side that require a fair amount of force to plug in. |
Quotes
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[to a group of reporters] Viktor: Simone appears only when I want her to appear. Viktor: I made her. Elaine: No, Viktor. She made YOU. Viktor: Do you know why I, Viktor Taransky, two-time Academy Award nominated director... Elaine: Viktor, that was short subjects. Viktor: ...overseeing the most cherished movie project of my entire career, am walking around with - look, look, look - pockets full of these... things? Elaine: Well, I have a feeling you're gonna tell me. Viktor: I'm gonna tell ya why. Because Miss Nicola Anders, supermodel with a SAG card, has it written in her contract that all cherry Mike and Ike's be removed from her candy dish, along with strict instructions that any room she walks into must have seven packs of cigarettes waiting for her, three of them open. That there be a personal Jacuzzi within eighty paces of her dressing room, and that any time she travels, her nanny must fly with her, first class. Elaine: So? What's wrong with that? Viktor: Elaine, she doesn't have children. Simone: I guess what I like most about my movies is that they're not about special effects. Viktor: You know, it's easier to fool a hundred thousand people than just one. Viktor: She's indestructible. Viktor: Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it. Simone: I am the death of real. Simone: I just think all elementary schools should have a firing range. How else will the children learn to defend themselves? Simone: God created little furry animals to be worn. Simone: What's the matter, Viktor? You look so sad. Don't you love me anymore? Viktor: Creative differences? The difference is, you're not creative. Simone: Have you ever actually *had* dolphin? Pan-fried, with a little garlic and fennel. Viktor: You made me, but I made you first. Simone: If there is a hole in the ozone layer, how come I can't see it? Viktor: I did it. Tell them they can fry me. I DID IT! It was premeditated! I strangled her... I bludgeoned her... I set her on fire, and then I killed her! I did it! Simone: Everybody always talks about the negatives of cigarettes, but look at the benefits. I mean you don't eat as much and you've got something to hold in your hand. |
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