In a Q & A with Kevin Smith, Edgar Wright revealed he was offered the role of Chris Bradley/Bolt by the producers. He declined, citing he wasn't a good enough actor. Hugh Jackman called him, along with other producers of the movie, with the impression that he had said "yes" to the role. Wright later e-mailed Jackman to politely decline the role.
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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The plot story is very similar to the CBS TV movie Do You Remember Love (1985). Joanne Woodward starred as an English professor who develops early-onset Alzheimers. She won an Emmy for the role. Richard Kiley played her husband, and Geraldine Fitzgerald played her mother.
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Julianne Moore interviewed National Alzheimers Association consultants in the course of her research for her role. She also underwent Alzheimer memory testing, which she passed.
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The movie was filmed in 23 days and out of chronological order.
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Lisa Genova: in the audience at Lydia's play.
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In late 2014, Sony Pictures was the victim of a major hack of their computer systems in which confidential corporate information and several unreleased complete movies were posted for public consumption. Among reams of other information, DVD-quality downloads of this movie appeared online before its official cinematic release.
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In the film, Alice is a professor at Columbia University. In the book, she's a professor at Harvard.
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Julianne Moore starred in Boogie Nights (1997), which is loosely based on the life of John Holmes and includes a sequence inspired by the Wonderland murders. Kate Bosworth, who plays Moore's daughter in this film, previously appeared in Wonderland (2003).
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Julianne Moore told Ellen DeGeneres that she took a month off from filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) to film this.
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This was Richard Glatzer's last film. He died of ALS in March 2015.
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Kristen Stewart's Twilight Saga co-star Kellan Lutz wanted to play the role of Tom Howland.
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Julianne Moore starred opposite Robert Pattinson in Maps to the Stars (2014). In this movie, Moore stars opposite Kristen Stewart. Both Stewart and Pattinson were the stars of the Twilight Saga.
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Alec Baldwin also starred in an earlier film about terminal illnesses My Sister's Keeper (2009) in which he plays a lawyer hired as a guardian ad litem for a little girl whose older sister is dying of cancer. Still Alice was the second film in which Baldwin played a character trying to help a family, in this case his own family, in the midst of a terminal illness.
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This is the second film in which Hunter Parrish played the son of Alec Baldwin's character. The first was It's Complicated (2009).
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Julianne Moore's Best Actress Oscar win was this film's only Oscar nomination.
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In the novel, Alice Howland's maiden name is Alice Daly. The novel also reveals that her mother, Sarah Daly, and sister, Anne, died in 1972 in a car crash.
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Co-director Richard Glatzer could not speak due to ALS. He directed the film using a text to speech app on an iPad. Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart dedicated their "Ice Bucket Challenge" to Glatzer.
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In the novel on which the film is based, Dr. Alice Howland that is right handed, while her son, Tom, is left handed. In real life, Julianne Moore is left handed and Hunter Parrish is right handed.
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Still Alice - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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