Agent Dale Shelby (Janeane Garofalo) spends the night in a hotel room with three films taken from the crime scene she visited that day. The films are Alien (1979), True Romance (1993) and Swingers (1996). "Alien" was directed by this film's Producer Ridley Scott, "True Romance" was directed by Tony Scott, also a Producer on this film and Ridley Scott's brother, and "Swingers" starred this film's lead actor, Vince Vaughn.
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Insomnia (2002), Dunkirk (2017) and Following (1998) are the only movies directed by Christopher Nolan that are not listed in IMDb's Top 250 as of 2018. His other 7 movies are among the best 250 movies ever made as voted by IMDb users.
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Director Christopher Nolan and Hilary Swank share the same birthday: July 30th.
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Robin Williams and Paul Dooley previously co-starred in Popeye (1980), as Popeye and Wimpy.
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Some more explicit or dark details were changed from the original Norwegian film Insomnia (1997) such as: the dead dog Dormer shoots in this film is alive in the original; Dormer does some reckless driving to scare the dead girl's friend, in the original he grabs her between the legs; Dormer and the hotel clerk share their thoughts a lot in the film, in the original they flirt a lot and he almost rapes her; the extremely downbeat ending in the original has been changed.
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Robin Williams speaks his first line 47 minutes into the movie and he doesn't appear on screen until 58 minutes in. His character, Walter Finch, does appear earlier in the film, but is not identifiable and is possibly played by a stand-in.
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Robin Williams does not appear until 61 minutes into the film.
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Although primarily known for comedic roles, this is one of two thrillers in which Robin Williams starred in the same year. The other was One Hour Photo (2002).
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Insomnia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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