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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted - the entire movie was shot on location in Maine.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted - the entire movie was shot on location in Maine.Maine, and even used products local to the state.
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* DoingItForTheArt: Creator/ToddField waived his fee to get the movie made.
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* RealLifeRelative: Todd Field's son plays the young Frank in a flashback scene.
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* MethodActing: Creator/SissySpacek decorated the house where Ruth lives in.
* RealLifeRelative: Todd Field's son Henry plays the young Frank in a flashback scene.
* RealLifeRelative: Todd Field's son Henry plays the young Frank in a flashback scene.
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* DeletedScene: Matt and Ruth taking Frank to see ''Film/BarryLyndon'' (Ruth tells Frank she met Matt at a screening of the movie when it first came out) was meant as Creator/ToddField's {{Homage}} to Stanley Kubrick, but he ended up cutting it out of the film.
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* DeletedScene: Matt and Ruth taking Frank to see ''Film/BarryLyndon'' (Ruth tells Frank she met Matt at a screening of the movie when it first came out) was meant as Creator/ToddField's {{Homage}} to Stanley Kubrick, Creator/StanleyKubrick, but he ended up cutting it out of the film.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted - the entire movie was shot on location in Maine.
* DeletedScene: Matt and Ruth taking Frank to see ''Film/BarryLyndon'' (Ruth tells Frank she met Matt at a screening of the movie when it first came out) was meant as Creator/ToddField's {{Homage}} to Stanley Kubrick, but he ended up cutting it out of the film.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Ultimately averted. When Creator/{{Miramax}} bought the movie at the Platform/{{Sundance}} Film Festival, Creator/ToddField was worried Harvey Weinstein, notorious for cutting movies down, would do the same to him. Field called up Creator/TomCruise (with whom he had worked on ''Film/EyesWideShut'') and told him his troubles, so according to Field, Cruise advised him to [[BatmanGambit let Weinstein make cuts to the film and show that version at test screenings; when that version played badly, Field could come back and pressure Weinstein to release his original cut in theaters. It worked.]]
* FakeAmerican: British actor Creator/TomWilkinson plays Maine native Matt Fowler.
* RealLifeRelative: Todd Field's son plays the young Frank in a flashback scene.
* DeletedScene: Matt and Ruth taking Frank to see ''Film/BarryLyndon'' (Ruth tells Frank she met Matt at a screening of the movie when it first came out) was meant as Creator/ToddField's {{Homage}} to Stanley Kubrick, but he ended up cutting it out of the film.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Ultimately averted. When Creator/{{Miramax}} bought the movie at the Platform/{{Sundance}} Film Festival, Creator/ToddField was worried Harvey Weinstein, notorious for cutting movies down, would do the same to him. Field called up Creator/TomCruise (with whom he had worked on ''Film/EyesWideShut'') and told him his troubles, so according to Field, Cruise advised him to [[BatmanGambit let Weinstein make cuts to the film and show that version at test screenings; when that version played badly, Field could come back and pressure Weinstein to release his original cut in theaters. It worked.]]
* FakeAmerican: British actor Creator/TomWilkinson plays Maine native Matt Fowler.
* RealLifeRelative: Todd Field's son plays the young Frank in a flashback scene.
