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* RealLifeRelative: Alan Arkin's wife at the time, Barbara Dana, plays a bank teller.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/AlanArkin admitted during the scenes with Sheldon, Vince, and General Garcia, you can see him coming very close to doing this, and he had to put his hand over his mouth to avoid laughing on camera.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, this was planned as a sequel to ''Film/FreebieAndTheBean'', until Creator/AlanArkin (who regards that movie as an OldShame) nixed the idea.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/MarlonBrando was a huge fan, having seen the movie 20 times, and it was because of that Andrew Bergman got him to appear in ''Film/TheFreshman1990''.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/MarlonBrando was a huge fan, having seen the movie 20 times, and it was because of that Andrew Bergman got him to appear in ''The Freshman''.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/MarlonBrando was a huge fan, having seen the movie 20 times, and it was because of that Andrew Bergman got him to appear in ''The Freshman''.''Film/TheFreshman1990''.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: David Paymer, in his very first film role, as the cab driver, and Ed Begley Jr. as Barry.
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** Also, James Hong's dialogue when doing the flight safety speech was almost completely improvised, and it was his decision to do it in Cantonese.
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** Also, James Hong's dialogue when doing the flight safety speech was almost completely improvised, and it was his decision to do it in Cantonese.Cantonese.
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** Also, James Hong's dialogue when doing the flight safety speech was almost completely improvised, and it was his decision to do it in Chinese.
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** Also, James Hong's dialogue when doing the flight safety speech was almost completely improvised, and it was his decision to do it in Chinese.Cantonese.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/PeterFalk didn't think he'd be able to laugh when [[spoiler: Sheldon and Vince drive away, after having been rescued by the CIA, and after making off with $5 million each]], so Alan Arkin squeezed Falk's knees, which got Falk to laugh.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Creator/PeterFalk didn't think he'd be able to laugh when [[spoiler: Sheldon and Vince drive away, after having been rescued by the CIA, and after making off with $5 million each]], so Alan Arkin Creator/AlanArkin squeezed Falk's knees, which got Falk to laugh.
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Peter Falk was actually rejected by the CIA when he applied to work for them in the 1950's, because of his association with a left-wing union.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Peter Falk didn't think he'd be able to laugh when [[spoiler: Sheldon and Vince drive away, after having been rescued by the CIA, and after making off with $5 million each]], so Alan Arkin squeezed Falk's knees, which got Falk to laugh.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Peter Falk Creator/PeterFalk didn't think he'd be able to laugh when [[spoiler: Sheldon and Vince drive away, after having been rescued by the CIA, and after making off with $5 million each]], so Alan Arkin squeezed Falk's knees, which got Falk to laugh.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Peter Falk didn't think he'd be able to laugh when [[spoiler: Sheldon and Vince drive away, after having been rescued by the CIA, and after making off with $5 million each]], so Alan Arkin squeezed Falk's knees, which got Falk to laugh.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Some of the New Jersey scenes, as well as the highway chase scene, were shot in Los Angeles.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Some of the New Jersey scenes, as well as the highway chase scene, were shot in Los Angeles. Also, the Honduras scenes (except for the highway chase scene) were all shot in Mexico.
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* FakeNationality: American actor Richard Libertini as the Latin American dictator General Garcia.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: David Paymer, in his very first film role, as the cab
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** Arkin also came up with the idea of having the guards sing "Trees".
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** Arkin also came up with the idea of having the guards sing "Trees"."Trees", and his and Falk's dialogue [[spoiler: while facing the firing squad]] was improvised.
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** Also, James Hong's dialogue when doing the "flight attendant" speech was almost completely improvised, and it was his decision to do it in Chinese.
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** Also, James Hong's dialogue when doing the "flight attendant" flight safety speech was almost completely improvised, and it was his decision to do it in Chinese.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Some of the New Jersey scenes, as well as the highway chase scene, were shot in Los Angeles.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/MarlonBrando was a huge fan, having seen the movie 20 times, and it was because of that Andrew Bergman got him to appear in ''Film/TheFreshman''.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/MarlonBrando was a huge fan, having seen the movie 20 times, and it was because of that Andrew Bergman got him to appear in ''Film/TheFreshman''.''The Freshman''.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/MarlonBrando was a huge fan, having seen the movie 20 times, and it was because of that Andrew Bergman got him to appear in ''Film/TheFreshman''.
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** Arkin also came up with the idea of having the guards sing "Trees".
