Best movie trivia of 1993

Trivia: Baby Connie was played by Dan Aykroyd's real life daughter, Danielle Aykroyd.

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Trivia: Max Pomeranc, who plays Josh, is himself a strong chess player. At the time this film was made, he was ranked among the top 100 in the nation for his age group.

Trivia: The film was actually made in Atlanta, and most of the old buildings you see in the film were demolished for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.

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Trivia: In the scene near the end where Wayne is on the phone with Cassandra's father, and he tells Wayne of Cassandra's marriage to Bobby, the whole thing is dubbed in English except for the last thing that Wayne says to Jeff. That last sentence, translated from Cantonese into English, is "Where is the toilet?"

Trivia: When Molly crashes the cab, you see the advertisement on the top of the cab reads "Senor Pizza." This was the name of the pizza place in the movie Loverboy, which Kirstie Alley was in.

Trivia: The racist epithet "ni***r," used so prevalently in the book, was understandably left completely out of this family-friendly movie.

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Trivia: The beer drunk by most of the cast was actually real beer.

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Trivia: When the nightmare warrior (the big metal guy) is fighting Bruce Lee in the room full of mirrors. This is the room in "Enter The Dragon" when he fights the bad guy in the movie.

Trivia: The real Ike Turner, makes a 2 second appearance just after the court sentence granting the couple's divorce. When the character of Ike Turner says, "I GAVE YOU THE NAME", the real Ike Turner is the thin man with the moustache and grey suit who follows Tina Turner's character into the lift.

Trivia: The film was released as "Dennis" in the United Kingdom in order to avoid confusion with the British comic strip character, "Dennis the Menace."

Trivia: Director Oliver Stone has a cameo as the man who tries to convince the reporter that the president is not the same man as he used to be.

Trivia: The CGI Gotham seen in the opening credits was actually created for "Batman: The Animated Series," but never used for one reason or another. It was repurposed for the opening credits of this film.

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Trivia: When D-Fens notices the protester outside the bank, the protester is wearing the exact same clothes Bill is wearing, even down the pattern on his tie.

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Trivia: The cover art appears to incorrectly show Max as a "cyborg" dog with a Terminator-like inner skeleton. However, the film explains that he's simply a genetically engineered dog with extra abilities, and thus not robotic in any way.

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Trivia: The inhuman shriek that the pod people use to alert their brethren of unduplicated humans present was invented for the 2nd film adaptation and carried into this, the 3rd - it is not part of the book, but remains very effective, hence its continued inclusion in film.

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Trivia: The Assassin is a remake of a French movie, La Femme Nikita.

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Trivia: Charlie booked the Robbie Burns room during his honeymoon. Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. His picture can be seen on Stuart MacKenzie's Scottish Wall of Fame (bottom right corner).

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Trivia: This movie marked the directorial debut of Robert De Niro.

Trivia: The initial cut of the film came in at under one hour. Original director William Lustig refused to shoot any new scenes and walked away from the production. Joel Soisson was brought in to direct several new scenes to pad the film out. Additionally, outtakes and clips from "Maniac Cop 2" were also spliced into the film to lightly pad the runtime.

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Trivia: The photographer who takes the pictures at the wedding is the film's director, Martin Scorsese.