Trivia / Les Misérables (1998)

• Acclaimed Flop: Downplayed on both counts, but there's a good chance it is. The budget has never been disclosed, but the box office take was only around $14 million. Yet most critics seemed to find it okay to good, if not exactly showering it with raves.
• All-Star Cast: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes.
• California Doubling: Much of the film was shot in the Czech Republic, mainly for the period architecture; due to the march of time, parts of Prague now look more like 19th-century Paris than Paris does.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Natalie Portman was considered for Cosette.
  • Anthony Hopkins was offered the role of Inspector Javert.

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