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* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/TomHanks--after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film since ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' not to have Music/JohnWilliams do the score--due to health issues.
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* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/TomHanks--after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film since ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' ''Film/TheColorPurple1985'' not to have Music/JohnWilliams do the score--due to health issues.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/Goosebumps2015'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5 million, respectively. The film under-performed a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/Goosebumps2015'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5 million, respectively. The film under-performed compared to a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, co-production also directed by Steven Spielberg, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' ''Film/Goosebumps2015'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5 million, respectively. The film under-performed a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
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* ActorAllusion:
** One policeman taunts Donovan by saying "I was on the third wave of Omaha Beach". Steven Spielberg joked that Tom Hanks should have responded [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan "I was on the first."]]
** Creator/TomHanks had used the line "every man deserves a defence" in ''Film/TheGreenMile''.
** A dish of peas and carrots is visible in one shot of Jim Donovan eating dinner. "Like peas and carrots" was his CatchPhrase in ''Film/ForrestGump''.
** Actor Dakin Matthews, who plays a judge to overlook Donovan's case, had previously played one in 1987 in the courtroom drama ''Nuts'' which starred starring Music/BarbraStreisand and Creator/RichardDreyfuss.
* ActorSharedBackground: Mark Rylance has a wife who is a musician, just like his character Rudolph.
** One policeman taunts Donovan by saying "I was on the third wave of Omaha Beach". Steven Spielberg joked that Tom Hanks should have responded [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan "I was on the first."]]
** Creator/TomHanks had used the line "every man deserves a defence" in ''Film/TheGreenMile''.
** A dish of peas and carrots is visible in one shot of Jim Donovan eating dinner. "Like peas and carrots" was his CatchPhrase in ''Film/ForrestGump''.
** Actor Dakin Matthews, who plays a judge to overlook Donovan's case, had previously played one in 1987 in the courtroom drama ''Nuts'' which starred starring Music/BarbraStreisand and Creator/RichardDreyfuss.
* ActorSharedBackground: Mark Rylance has a wife who is a musician, just like his character Rudolph.
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** One policeman taunts Donovan by saying "I was on the third wave of Omaha Beach". Steven Spielberg joked that Tom Hanks should have responded [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan "I was on the first."]]
** Creator/TomHanks had used the line "every man deserves a defence" in ''Film/TheGreenMile''.
** A dish of peas and carrots is visible in one shot of Jim Donovan eating dinner. "Like peas and carrots" was his CatchPhrase in ''Film/ForrestGump''.
** Actor Dakin Matthews, who plays a judge to overlook Donovan's case, had previously played one in 1987 in the courtroom drama ''Nuts'' which starred starring Music/BarbraStreisand and Creator/RichardDreyfuss.
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* DawsonCasting: Tom Hanks was fifty-nine playing Jim Donovan in his forties.
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* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks--after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film since ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' not to have Music/JohnWilliams do the score--due to health issues.
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* DawsonCasting: Tom Hanks Creator/TomHanks was fifty-nine playing Jim Donovan in his forties.
* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration betweenSteven Spielberg Creator/StevenSpielberg and Tom Hanks--after Creator/TomHanks--after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film since ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' not to have Music/JohnWilliams do the score--due to health issues.
* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between
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* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was a historian and said that the photographers would have just thrown the used bulbs on the floor. Steven Spielberg was then inspired to shoot the low-angle shot of the principals walking through all the bulbs.
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* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was a historian and said that the photographers would have just thrown the used bulbs on the floor. Steven Spielberg Creator/StevenSpielberg was then inspired to shoot the low-angle shot of the principals walking through all the bulbs.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Spielberg, the scene where Donovan's son becomes a CrazySurvivalist is drawn directly from his own memories of growing up in the Cold War.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Spielberg, Creator/StevenSpielberg, the scene where Donovan's son becomes a CrazySurvivalist is drawn directly from his own memories of growing up in the Cold War.
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** Actor Dakin Matthews, who plays a judge to overlook Donovan's case, had previously played one in 1987 in the courtroom drama ''Nuts'' which starred starring Music/BarbraStreisand and Creator/RichardDreyfuss.
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* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks--after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film since ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' not to have John Williams Music/JohnWilliams do the score--due to health issues.
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** Tom Hanks had used the line "every man deserves a defence" in ''Film/TheGreenMile''.
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* StarMakingRole: Creator/MarkRylance was already an award winning star in the theatre world, but this introduced him to film audiences, with his acclaimed performance earning him an Oscar and multiple roles in critical and commercial hits following.
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U2 is named after an Irish tax form. It also being the name of a spy plane is a coincidence.
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* CastingGag: The band Music/{{U2}} take their name from the U-2 plane that is featured in this movie. Lead singer Bono's daughter Eve Hewson plays Carol Donovan in the film.
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* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks - after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film not to have John Williams do the score - due to health issues.
* RealLifeRelative: The real life son of Francis Gary Powers has a cameo as a CIA agent involved in training the pilots.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5 million respectively. The film under-performed a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was a historian, and said that the photographers would have just thrown the used bulbs on the floor. Steven Spielberg was then inspired to shoot the low angle shot of the principals walking through all the bulbs.
* RealLifeRelative: The real life son of Francis Gary Powers has a cameo as a CIA agent involved in training the pilots.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5 million respectively. The film under-performed a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was a historian, and said that the photographers would have just thrown the used bulbs on the floor. Steven Spielberg was then inspired to shoot the low angle shot of the principals walking through all the bulbs.
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* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks - after Hanks--after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film since ''Literature/TheColorPurple'' not to have John Williams do the score - due score--due to health issues.
* RealLifeRelative: Thereal life real-life son of Francis Gary Powers has a cameo as a CIA agent involved in training the pilots.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5million million, respectively. The film under-performed a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was ahistorian, historian and said that the photographers would have just thrown the used bulbs on the floor. Steven Spielberg was then inspired to shoot the low angle low-angle shot of the principals walking through all the bulbs.
* RealLifeRelative: The
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5
* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was a
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Largely averted. Though some of the East Berlin scenes were shot in Poland, most of the film was shot on location in New York City and Berlin. The climactic scene on the titular bridge was even filmed on the actual bridge where the real exchange took place.
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* ActorAllusion:
** One policeman taunts Donovan by saying "I was on the third wave of Omaha Beach". Steven Spielberg joked that Tom Hanks should have responded [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan "I was on the first."]]
** Tom Hanks had used the line "every man deserves a defence" in ''Film/TheGreenMile''.
** A dish of peas and carrots is visible in one shot of Jim Donovan eating dinner. "Like peas and carrots" was his CatchPhrase in ''Film/ForrestGump''.
* ActorSharedBackground: Mark Rylance has a wife who is a musician just like his character Rudolph.
* CastingGag: The band U2 take their name from the U-2 plane that is featured in this movie. Lead singer Bono's daughter Eve Hewson plays Carol Donovan in the film.
* DawsonCasting: Tom Hanks was fifty-nine playing Jim Donovan in his forties.
* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks - after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film not to have John Williams do the score - due to health issues.
* RealLifeRelative: The real life son of Francis Gary Powers has a cameo as a CIA agent involved in training the pilots.
** One policeman taunts Donovan by saying "I was on the third wave of Omaha Beach". Steven Spielberg joked that Tom Hanks should have responded [[Film/SavingPrivateRyan "I was on the first."]]
** Tom Hanks had used the line "every man deserves a defence" in ''Film/TheGreenMile''.
** A dish of peas and carrots is visible in one shot of Jim Donovan eating dinner. "Like peas and carrots" was his CatchPhrase in ''Film/ForrestGump''.
* ActorSharedBackground: Mark Rylance has a wife who is a musician just like his character Rudolph.
* CastingGag: The band U2 take their name from the U-2 plane that is featured in this movie. Lead singer Bono's daughter Eve Hewson plays Carol Donovan in the film.
* DawsonCasting: Tom Hanks was fifty-nine playing Jim Donovan in his forties.
* ProductionPosse: Fourth collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks - after ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' and ''Film/TheTerminal''. They had also both acted as producers of the ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' miniseries. In a subversion, this was the first Spielberg film not to have John Williams do the score - due to health issues.
* RealLifeRelative: The real life son of Francis Gary Powers has a cameo as a CIA agent involved in training the pilots.
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* ThrowItIn: The extras playing the photographers were originally told to put their used bulbs in their pockets. One of the extras was a historian, and said that the photographers would have just thrown the used bulbs on the floor. Steven Spielberg was then inspired to shoot the low angle shot of the principals walking through all the bulbs.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GregoryPeck tried to get a movie made about this story in 1965, with himself as Donovan and Creator/AlecGuinness as Abel. Unfortunately, escalating Cold War tension as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis meant the story was considered to be politically volatile by the studios, and the movie was dropped.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GregoryPeck tried to get a movie made about this story in 1965, with himself as Donovan and Creator/AlecGuinness as Abel. Unfortunately, escalating Cold War tension as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis meant the story was considered to be politically volatile by the studios, and the movie was dropped.dropped.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Spielberg, the scene where Donovan's son becomes a CrazySurvivalist is drawn directly from his own memories of growing up in the Cold War.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: According to Spielberg, the scene where Donovan's son becomes a CrazySurvivalist is drawn directly from his own memories of growing up in the Cold War.
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** [[Series/BreakingBad Todd Alquist]] identifies Francis Gary Power
** [[Series/LawAndOrder Judge Walter Bradley]] now works for the CIA
* HeyItsThatVoice: Donovan's son is [[WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie Charlie Brown.]]
** [[Series/BreakingBad Todd Alquist]] identifies Francis Gary Power
** [[Series/LawAndOrder Judge Walter Bradley]] now works for the CIA
* HeyItsThatVoice: Donovan's son is [[WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie Charlie Brown.]]
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* WhatMightHaveBeen: Creator/GregoryPeck tried to get a movie made about this story in 1965, with himself as Donovan and Creator/AlecGuinness as Abel. Unfortunately, escalating Cold War tension as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis meant the story was considered to be politically volatile by the studios, and the movie was dropped.
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* WhatMightHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/GregoryPeck tried to get a movie made about this story in 1965, with himself as Donovan and Creator/AlecGuinness as Abel. Unfortunately, escalating Cold War tension as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis meant the story was considered to be politically volatile by the studios, and the movie was dropped.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Donovan's son is [[WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie Charlie Brown.]]
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Creator/{{Disney}} barely promoted the film in the weeks up to its premiere, and it faced heavy competition with ''Film/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Film/TheMartian''. It ended up losing to both films and grossed only $15.4 million on its opening weekend domestically, while ''Goosebumps'' and ''The Martian'' grossed $23.5 million and $21.5 million respectively. The film under-performed a previous [=DreamWorks=]/[[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox Fox]] co-production, ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'', and was a major vindication of [=DreamWorks=]' decision to transfer future distribution of their films to Creator/{{Universal}} the following year.
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* WhatMightHaveBeen: Creator/GregoryPeck tried to get a movie made about this story in 1965, with himself as Donovan and Creator/AlecGuinness as Abel. Unfortunately, escalating Cold War tension as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis meant the story was considered to be politically volatile by the studios, and the movie was dropped.
* WhatMightHaveBeen: Creator/GregoryPeck tried to get a movie made about this story in 1965, with himself as Donovan and Creator/AlecGuinness as Abel. Unfortunately, escalating Cold War tension as well as the Cuban Missile Crisis meant the story was considered to be politically volatile by the studios, and the movie was dropped.
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*HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/BreakingBad Todd Alquist]] identifies Francis Gary Power
**[[Series/LawAndOrder Judge Walter Bradley]] now works for the CIA
**[[Series/LawAndOrder Judge Walter Bradley]] now works for the CIA
