Trivia: After 13 years and 26 films, this is the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to receive a "rotten" rating from Rotten Tomatoes upon release. This is somewhat ironic given that there were reports that Marvel considered it the best film they had made yet, and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige felt it could be a nominee for Best Picture at the Oscars, particularly as its director Chloé Zhao had recently won the Best Director Oscar for Nomadland, which also won Best Picture.
Trivia: The driver of the hotel van service taking the guests to their secluded beach is none other than the director M. Night Shyamalan. He has a speaking role in this movie as well.
Trivia: This is the first film distributed by a streaming service and the first starring predominantly deaf actors to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Trivia: Younger generations may not know this, but "Licorice Pizza" was a famous chain of record stores during the 1970s and 80s. Their slogan for many years was "The tastiest music in town." They went defunct in 1986.
Trivia: Ross' log-in on the laptop computer in the San Francisco library included a CAPTCHA (to discern a real person from a robot). The use of ONE word - in this case, "doug" - is called EZ-Gimpy. "CAPTCHA" is an abbreviation for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. (00:02:21)
Trivia: The late Ray Liotta (12/18/54 - 5/26/22) had a dual role, playing twin brothers "Hollywood Dick" and Salvatore "Sally" Moltisanti.
Trivia: Translations for the Latin HABEAS CORPUS include "show me the body", "you have the body", "you should have the body", "produce the body", and "you shall have the body." The "body" in question refers to a person being held in detention or confinement and "show the body" refers to the judge/court being requested (petitioned) to bring the person to court to ascertain/assess the legality of the person's deprivation of liberty. No person should be deprived of liberty without "due process of law."
Trivia: "Infanticide" refers to a parent deliberately killing a child, either an infant or up to a one-year-old. The lesser-known general term "filicide" refers to a parent (or functional equivalent, such as step-parent) killing a child. Related terms wherein a family member kills another family member include "parricide" (a child killing a parent) and "siblicide" (obviously, killing a brother or sister).
Trivia: Throughout the movie, Kurt Warner wore jersey #13, but he is also known as jersey #10 for the St. Louis Rams in the 1999 play-offs.
Trivia: The movie hardly looks as though it was set in Fitzgerald, Georgia. Fitzgerald's population is over 50% Black, about 40% of the residents live in poverty, its crime rate is high, and the median income is relatively low. Newcomers such as the Bickers may not have a "Southern drawl", but - surprisingly - neither did any of the natives in the movie. The Fitzgerald area isn't very large - less than ten square miles. Perhaps an attempt to avoid stereotypes at the expense of misrepresentation of the population?
Trivia: "Singularities" are infinitely dense points. When something is compressed to the point of having a volume of ZERO, its density is thought of as being infinite - in other words, a "singularity." A typical example is the inside (center) of a black hole. A huge star - that once had a large mass - was reduced to nothing, but that "nothing" has a density that is infinite. It is at a point of "no return" (an event horizon), so is not visible. BUT "naked singularities" could exist - and be visible.
Trivia: This modern version of "Oliver Twist" has an interesting twist to it: He is a traceur or parkourist (in addition to other things, such as a graffiti artist). The scenes that include roof topping, scaling walls, and traversing obstacles are worth watching.
