| 1 | * CreatorBacklash: Creator/DannyAiello didn't like his role as Johnny, whom he thought was wimpy. |
| 2 | * CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/NormanJewison considers it his best film. |
| 3 | * DuelingMovies: Of sorts. It was released the same day as ''Film/BroadcastNews''. |
| 4 | * FakeNationality: The Italian-American Castorini family includes Music/{{Cher}} (Armenian-American), Creator/OlympiaDukakis (Greek-American), and Feodor Chaliapin (Russian by birth, though half-Italian ethnically and spent much of his adult life in Italy). |
| 5 | * ThrowItIn: "Your life's going down the toilet!" |
| 6 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 7 | ** Shanley initially wrote the characters as Irish, with Creator/SallyField in mind for the lead, but decided to make them Italian to make it less of an AuthorAvatar script. |
| 8 | ** Creator/AnneBancroft and Maureen Stapleton were up for the role of Rose Castorini, but their fees were too expensive. |
| 9 | ** Executives wanted to cast Creator/PeterGallagher as Ronny. |
| 10 | ** The original screenplay featured a subplot of Loretta and Cosmo volunteering at a homeless shelter as penance for their sins. |
| 11 | ** The opening title sequence was originally played on the score from "Theatre/LaBoheme", but was changed to Music/DeanMartin "That's Amore" because the preview drew negative test audience reaction, thinking they'd accidentally walked into an arthouse film. |
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