Best movie trivia of 1998

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

More My Giant trivia
Dr. Dolittle picture

Trivia: Eddie Murphy had a big problem while working on this movie: He is very squeamish about most animals. It is even so serious that he flatly refused to do a scene involving an alligator. Hence, most shots with animals were done via blue-screen technique.

More Dr. Dolittle trivia
Six Days, Seven Nights picture

Trivia: Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis are speaking Maori in their roles as pirates. However they didn't know how to say the complex lines they were supposed to (about gold and pirates, etc), so they just ad-libbed random everyday stuff such as what they were cooking for dinner. (From Temuera's biography "Temuera Morrison: From Haka to Hollywood").

More Six Days, Seven Nights trivia
The Last Broadcast picture

Trivia: The production budget was reportedly only $900. $300 of this was spent on video stock and tapes, while the remaining $600 was spent on other production costs.

TedStixon

More The Last Broadcast trivia
Deep Rising picture

Trivia: Howard Atherton, the director of photography, had a lot of issues working on the film. When director Stephen Sommers asked him why he was having trouble, Atherton explained that he usually worked with directors who he didn't get along with, and their mutual animosity made him try extra hard to compensate. Atherton actually really, really liked working with the friendly, easy-going Sommers, which was a pleasant change of pace for him - but he also felt like he wasn't being challenged as he usually was.

TedStixon

More Deep Rising trivia
More U.S. Marshals trivia
Rasen picture

Trivia: The film's writer/director, Joji Iida, had previously worked on the "Ring" franchise before. He wrote a 1995 Japanese TV-movie based on the original novel ("Ring") that proceeded the hit 1998 film adaptation. So in a strange, roundabout way, the film could also be viewed as being a sequel to the TV-movie.

TedStixon

More Rasen trivia
Happiness picture

Trivia: Director Todd Solondz has a cameo as the doorman in the apartment building in which Helen and Allen live.

More Happiness trivia
Addams Family Reunion picture

Trivia: Though this film is oft-cited as a "sequel" to the 1991 and 1993 "Addams Family" movies, it is actually a "reboot" that was produced and distributed by a completely different studio, and was actually created to serve as a "backdoor pilot" for the subsequent television series "The New Addams Family."

TedStixon

More Addams Family Reunion trivia
The Temptations picture

Trivia: In an interview with Leon, he states that he ad-libbed the line "Ain't nobody coming to see you, Otis." Charles Malik Whitfield, who plays Otis, was bothered by this, and his reaction is genuine.

jshy7979

More The Temptations trivia
Ringu picture

Trivia: The film is loosely based on an ongoing series of novels by Japanese author Koji Suzuki. While the film shares the basic premise of the novels, the details are vastly different. (Notably, the books feature heavy and increasing science-fiction overtones that are absent from the films.) The American remake, "The Ring," is based more directly on this film and its sequel "Ringu 2" than the novels.

TedStixon

More Ringu trivia
He Got Game picture

Trivia: One of the players of the Lincoln team is Travis Best, former player of the Indiana pacers from the NBA.

ozwal13

More He Got Game trivia
More Khrustalyov, My Car! trivia
Phantasm IV: Oblivion picture

Trivia: All the flashbacks to the past are actually made up of deleted scenes from the original film.

TedStixon

More Phantasm IV: Oblivion trivia
Psycho picture

Trivia: Director Gus van Sant has a cameo at the beginning of the movie when Marion enters the office after her lunch break - he is talking to someone looking just like Alfred Hitchcock.

More Psycho trivia
SLC Punk! picture

Trivia: The scene filmed on Ensign Peak during the acid trip, uses a shot from Terminator 2 to simulate Salt Lake City being destroyed by a nuclear blast.

manthabeat

More SLC Punk! trivia
Barney's Great Adventure picture

Trivia: This was the last feature-length motion picture produced by Lyrick Studios before it was folded into HIT Entertainment in 2001.

More Barney's Great Adventure trivia
Dirty Work picture

Trivia: Chris Farley has an uncredited role in the film as Jimmy. This is his second, and the last, film to be released after his death.

Bishop73

More Dirty Work trivia

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.