Trivia: Charlotte Rampling plays Elizabeth Hunter, the mother of Basil Hunter (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy de Lascabanes (Judy Davis). In real life, Rampling is only five years older than Rush and only nine years older than Davis.
Trivia: Whilst filming his death scene on the beach, Ron Perlman shattered his kneecap when a wave hit him.
Trivia: Before production began, Judi Dench was still suffering from a toe injury she obtained whilst working on her previous movie. She didn't tell anyone about the injury as she didn't want to lose her role.
Trivia: Nathan and Karen were spotted traveling on the "Fourth Street Bridge." The odds of being on a bridge when fleeing the city of Pittsburgh (movie's primary setting) are quite high - there are 446 bridges in Pittsburgh, the greatest number of any other city in the world. [Venice, Italy previously held the record with 443 bridges.] Perhaps not surprisingly, Pittsburgh is nicknamed "The City of Bridges."
Trivia: Nine-one-one (written "911") is used exclusively for the emergency telephone number in the U.S. (Nine-eleven might be used more often in England.) In the case of "nine-eleven", a slash is used to show the separation of the numbers (9/11), which then dictates its pronunciation and distinguishes it (date of terrorist attacks) from the emergency 9-1-1 number.
Trivia: This was the first Academy Award Best Picture winner produced by a non-speaking English country.