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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Creator/MareWinningham played a virgin while she was actually pregnant during filming. She was also a Roman Catholic playing a Jew, though she did convert twenty years later.
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** [[Creator/MareWinningham Mare Winningham's]] brother, Patrick, appears as a band member of 'The New Breed' Band.
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* BreakawayPopHit: "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" by John Parr. Younger fans may have no idea that there was a movie attached to this hit song.
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** Creator/JenniferBeals, Creator/JoanCusack and Creator/JodieFoster were offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
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** Creator/JenniferBeals, Creator/JoanCusack and Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/JodieFoster and Creator/TatumONeal were offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
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** According to Creator/JoelSchumacher's DVDCommentary, co-screenwriter Carl Kurlander reportedly based Kirby's obsession with Dale on his own true-life university crush on a fellow student he had known on campus whilst studying at uni.
** The interchanges between Kevin and the hooker were based on a conversation between a hooker and a limo driver that Creator/JoelSchumacher had once overheard.
** According to Creator/JoelSchumacher's DVDCommentary, co-screenwriter Carl Kurlander reportedly based Kirby's obsession with Dale on his own true-life university crush on a fellow student he had known on campus whilst studying at uni.
** The interchanges between Kevin and the hooker were based on a conversation between a hooker and a limo driver that Creator/JoelSchumacher had once overheard.
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** Creator/JoanCusack and Creator/JodieFoster were offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
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* CreatorBreakdown[=/=]RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.
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** Creator/EmilioEstevez originally wanted to play Billy Hicks.
* CreatorBreakdown[=/=]RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, ** Creator/AllySheedy originally wanted to play Jules. Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave convinced her to take the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.role of Leslie.
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** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/BrookeShields and Creator/ElisabethShue were all considered for Leslie.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Jules is almost constantly doing cocaine, Alec and Leslie argue over who gets to keep the Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/ThePolice, and Music/ThePretenders albums when they break up, and there's a passing reference to UsefulNotes/TheColdWar the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as an unbridgeable stalemate. Oddly, the portrayal of gay people is fairly '70s, with Jules believing that Kevin is gay because he was never interested in her [[spoiler: (he is actually interested in her friend Leslie)]], and trying to set him up with her decorator next door neighbor. Despite coming out in 1985, there are no references to the AIDS crisis -- possibly because AIDS was widely considered a "gay disease," not something mainstream America had to worry about.
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* MethodActing: Playing roommates in the movie, Creator/EmilioEstevez and Andrew [=McCarthy=] roomed together to prepare for their roles in the film.
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* MethodActing: Playing roommates in the movie, Creator/EmilioEstevez and Andrew [=McCarthy=] roomed together to prepare for their roles in the film.
* NamesTheSame: One of the characters is named Billy Hicks. [[Creator/BillHicks No, not him]].
* NamesTheSame: One of the characters is named Billy Hicks. [[Creator/BillHicks No, not him]].
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** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MegRyan and Creator/ElisabethShue were all considered for Leslie.
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** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MegRyan Creator/MegRyan, Creator/BrookeShields and Creator/ElisabethShue were all considered for Leslie.
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** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker and Creator/MegRyan were all considered for Leslie.
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** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker and Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MegRyan and Creator/ElisabethShue were all considered for Leslie.
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** Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/JodieFoster and Creator/TatumONeal were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
** Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/JodieFoster and Creator/TatumONeal were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
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** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/BrookeShields Creator/SarahJessicaParker and Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/MegRyan were all considered for Leslie.
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* WorkingTitle: Creator/ColumbiaPictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as ''The Real World'' and ''Sparks''.''Sparks''.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Jules is almost constantly doing cocaine, Alec and Leslie argue over who gets to keep the Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/ThePolice, and Music/ThePretenders albums when they break up, and there's a passing reference to UsefulNotes/TheColdWar as an unbridgeable stalemate. Oddly, the portrayal of gay people is fairly '70s, with Jules believing that Kevin is gay because he was never interested in her [[spoiler: he was (he is actually interested in her roommate, who was dating her best friend]], friend Leslie)]], and trying to set him up with her decorator next door neighbor. Despite coming out in 1985, there are no references to the AIDS crisis -- possibly because AIDS was widely considered a "gay disease," not something mainstream America had to worry about.
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** Creator/LauraDern auditioned for Naomi.
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* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/JoelSchumacher.
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** Creator/BrookeShields, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh were all considered for Leslie.
** Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/TatumONeal and Creator/JoanCusack were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
** Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/TatumONeal and Creator/JoanCusack were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
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** Creator/BrookeShields, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/CThomasHowell auditioned for Kirby but didn't get it because he was too young.
** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker,Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/BrookeShields and Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh were all considered for Leslie.
**Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/JoanCusack, Creator/JodieFoster and Creator/TatumONeal and Creator/JoanCusack were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh, Creator/SarahJessicaParker,
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* CreatorBreakdown / RealitySubtext: CreatorBreakdown[=/=]RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RobertDowneyJr was considered for Billy Hicks. Which would have been a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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** Creator/RobertDowneyJr was considered for Billy Hicks. Which would have been a FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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* WorkingTitle: Columbia Pictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as ''The Real World'' and ''Sparks''.
* WorkingTitle: Columbia Pictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as ''The Real World'' and ''Sparks''.
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** Creator/JodieFoster , Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/TatumONeal and Creator/JoanCusack were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
* WorkingTitle:Columbia Pictures Creator/ColumbiaPictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as ''The Real World'' and ''Sparks''.
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* WorkingTitle: Columbia Pictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as The ''The Real World World'' and Sparks.''Sparks''.
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* RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, Creator/JoelSchumacher Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RobertDowneyJr was considered for Billy Hicks. Which would be have been a FunnyAnyeurismMoment.FunnyAneurysmMoment.
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* ActorInspiredElement: The "booga-booga" cheer that the friends do when they are celebrating or just in a good mood was not originally in the script. In a later interview, Creator/RobLowe stated that the cheer came out of observing fans whispering about the stars of the movie and then laughing. The cheer itself makes fun of what these whispered conversations sounded like from a few feet away.
* AllThereInTheScript: Jules is the only person of the seven central characters in the cast whose last name is never mentioned in the movie. Her full character name is Julianna Van Patten according to the movie's screenplay.
* BreakawayPopHit: "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" by John Parr.
* CreatorBreakdown: Creator/DemiMoore, like her character, was going through a drug problem at the time.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: Mare Winningham played a virgin while she was actually pregnant during filming.
* RealLifeRelative: Mare Winningham's brother, Patrick, appears as a band member of 'The New Breed' Band.
* RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/EmilioEstevez and Creator/DemiMoore began dating during the filming of the movie. He said he was "deeply in love with her." For a time they were even engaged, though they never married.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Fashion, music and Alec's liberal conservative-flip are reflective of very in-the-momenttrends.trends.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RobertDowneyJr was considered for Billy Hicks. Which would be a FunnyAnyeurismMoment.
** Creator/BrookeShields, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh were all considered for Leslie.
** Creator/JodieFoster , Creator/TatumONeal and Creator/JoanCusack were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
* WorkingTitle: Columbia Pictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as The Real World and Sparks.
* AllThereInTheScript: Jules is the only person of the seven central characters in the cast whose last name is never mentioned in the movie. Her full character name is Julianna Van Patten according to the movie's screenplay.
* BreakawayPopHit: "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" by John Parr.
* CreatorBreakdown: Creator/DemiMoore, like her character, was going through a drug problem at the time.
* IronyAsSheIsCast: Mare Winningham played a virgin while she was actually pregnant during filming.
* RealLifeRelative: Mare Winningham's brother, Patrick, appears as a band member of 'The New Breed' Band.
* RealitySubtext: Creator/DemiMoore had a drug problem, much like her character when she was cast in the film. One day, Creator/JoelSchumacher actually demanded that she leave the set because she was really high. Moore actually had to go through rehab and promise to stay clean in order to play a character with a drug problem.
* RomanceOnTheSet: Creator/EmilioEstevez and Creator/DemiMoore began dating during the filming of the movie. He said he was "deeply in love with her." For a time they were even engaged, though they never married.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Fashion, music and Alec's liberal conservative-flip are reflective of very in-the-moment
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RobertDowneyJr was considered for Billy Hicks. Which would be a FunnyAnyeurismMoment.
** Creator/BrookeShields, Creator/MegRyan, Creator/JamieLeeCurtis, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/SarahJessicaParker, Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/ElisabethShue and Creator/JenniferJasonLeigh were all considered for Leslie.
** Creator/JodieFoster , Creator/TatumONeal and Creator/JoanCusack were all offered the role of Jules, and they all turned it down.
* WorkingTitle: Columbia Pictures hated the title, going so far as to send a 35-page memo listing all of their issues with the proposed title and suggesting such alternatives as The Real World and Sparks.
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