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1	* ActingForTwo: Geoffrey Wigdor plays both Young John and [[spoiler: Carol's son in a photo in the epilogue]].
2	* AllStarCast: Creator/RobertDeNiro, Creator/BradPitt, Creator/JasonPatric, Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/MinnieDriver, and Creator/BrunoKirby.
3	* BillingDisplacement: Creator/KevinBacon is billed first, despite a SmallRoleBigImpact as Sean Nokes. He's only in the first half of the film, and is killed off after the TimeSkip. While the story divides the cast into the child and adult versions of the protagonists, Creator/RobertDeNiro appears more prominently in both halves.
4	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/BradPitt is not a fan of his own performance in the film, stating in an interview that he just sees himself doing what other people told him to do, not making the role his own.
5	* TheDanza: Creator/RobertDeNiro as Father Robert Carrillo.
6	* DuelingDubs: The movie has two Latin American Spanish dubs: the original made by Prime Dubb and distributed by [=PolyGram=] in 1996, and a second one made by Intersound and distributed for Blu-Ray by Warner Bros.
7	* EnforcedMethodActing: Brad Renfro asked for the floor not to be cleaned when his character had to eat food off the floor because he wanted to "get into it".
8	* FakeAmerican: British Creator/MinnieDriver as a native New Yorker.
9	* FriendshipOnTheSet: In contrast to the character he played, Kevin Bacon got on very well with the child actors and the extras playing the inmates - to the point where he had trouble reverting to his strict persona during takes.
10	* OnSetInjury: Kevin Bacon sustained burns from the gunpowder [[spoiler: in his death scene]].
11	* ProductionPosse: Creator/BarryLevinson has featured Ralph Tabakin in every film of his.
12	* TypeCasting: The fourth time Robert De Niro has played a priest, after ''True Confessions'', ''We're No Angels'', and ''The Mission''.
13	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
14	** Early on, Creator/SandraBullock was attached to play Carol.
15	** Devon Sawa was offered the role of Young Michael, but had to turn it down due to commitments to ''Wild America''.

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