Trivia / I Wanna Hold Your Hand

• Box Office Bomb: Even with good reviews and a positive test audience response, the film only recouped $1.9 million of a $2.8 million budget.
• Dawson Casting: Nancy Allen was 28 when the film came out, and had actually been a teenager when The Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.
• Follow the Leader: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have said they were influenced by American Graffiti, another coming-of-age film that followed an ensemble cast of teenagers through one day in the early 1960s.
• What Could Have Been: Carrie Fisher was originally cast as Janis Goldman.
• Working Title: Beatlemania.

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