Trivia: Bernard Fox, who portrayed Colonel Archibald Gracie IV, also played Frederick Fleet in the 1958 film, A Night to Remember, another film about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Frederick Fleet was the first person to notice the iceberg and shouted the warning to the crew.
Trivia: There have been rumors ever since the release of "Scream 2" that filmmaker Robert Rodriguez actually directed the scenes from the movie-within-the-movie "Stab." (This would explain why "Scream 4" states that Rodriguez directed "Stab.") However, there are also conflicting reports that director Wes Craven filmed the scenes for "Stab," and even some theories that both directors worked on the "Stab" scenes. To this day, the truth is unclear.
Trivia: Julie Delpy admitted that the only reason that she did this movie was because she needed to pay her rent.
Trivia: When composer Éric Serra showed Inva Mula, the Albanian soprano who was going to sing the Diva Dance, the sheet music for that part, apparently she laughed and said that it was impossible for the human voice to switch from high to low notes that quickly. She got her way: The part that ended up in the film is not a single piece of audio, rather it's several pieces stitched meticulously together.
Trivia: In the Gattaca world, people like Vincent who fake their genetic profile are known as borrowed ladders. This is a reference to the double helix, or ladder shape, of DNA.
Trivia: In the scene with George swinging from the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, that's actually Brendan Fraser, not a stuntman. He enjoyed the rush so much that he requested an extra take just to swing again.
Trivia: In all the scenes where Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain had physical contact, Jeremy Irons had to wear a pillow on his lap since Swain was underage at the time of filming.
Trivia: The collector who calls Banky a tracer is played by film producer Scott Mosier.
Trivia: The voiceover radio broadcast at the end of the movie is spoken by Roger Moore - the original Saint from the TV series.
Trivia: This is a remake of a French film, 'Les Comperes,' starring Gérard Depardieu.
Trivia: This was Kiefer Sutherland's feature film debut as a director.
Trivia: In China this film was renamed 'Mr. Cat-Poop'.
Trivia: The "goon" who winds up fighting John Cusack in the school hallway is Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. He is not only a world-class kickboxer but has also been John Cusack's real-life kickboxing coach for many years.
Trivia: Roberto Benigni became the first Italian actor in more than 35 years to win an Oscar for an acting role. The last winner was Sophia Loren. His unexpecting Oscar win for "Best Actor" marked only the second time that an actor had directed himself in an Academy Award winning performance. The other was Laurence Olivier for Hamlet (1948). Benigni also became the first actor to win a best actor oscar for an non-English speaking role.
Trivia: The mars shuttle is a space shuttle type craft. It has different wings which are more curved and also smaller. When the shuttle is launched the moviemakers have simply used a genuine space-shuttle scene, where the shuttle has completely different wings.
Trivia: Random point. The hiker who stops Ewan McGregor during his escape is Timothy Olyphant, in only his second film role. You may not know the name, but he went on to play the killer in Scream 2, a drug dealer in Go, and a detective in Gone in 60 Seconds. Well, I was surprised.
Trivia: The original words to "My Own Little Corner" are: I'm a slave in Calcutta, I'm a queen in Peru." For obvious reasons, those lyrics were changed to "I'm a thief in Calcutta."
Trivia: Alex Whitman's (played by Matthew Perry) dad, Richard, is played by John Bennett Perry, Matthew Perry's real-life father.
Trivia: Elaine Stritch plays Mavis LaBreche, the mother of Liz LaBreche (Dyan Cannon). In real life, Stritch (born 1925) was only twelve years older than Cannon (born 1937).
Trivia: "Traveller" (1997) is by "Traveler Production. Company." Traveler and Traveller are the same terms, except the former (one "L") is the preferred spelling in the U.S. and the latter (two "L's") is preferred in the U.K. "Traveller" is set in North Carolina, so the more appropriate spelling (American English) would be "Traveler ", but the main characters in the movie are Irish-American. Is the film's title another con?