The Rocker - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Rocker or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Rocker

[liam]

While Fish (Rainn Wilson) is sitting at the dinner table with his sister's family, Matt (Josh Gad) talked about how he got accepted to M.I.T. Josh Gad appeared in 21 (2008) and played the part of an M.I.T. student who was best friends with the main character.

[steve]

Teddy Geiger, a successful musician, told her fans and followers on Instagram in November, 2017, that she started HRT in October, 2017, as she identifies herself as a female. HRT, or Hormone Replacement Therapy, is administered to transgender individuals to align their sexual characteristics so they can be closer to the gender in which they identify, in this case, Geiger identifies as female.

[victoria]

Rainn Wilson's characters name was Robert "Fish" Fishman. Jon "Fish" Fishman plays drums in the rock band Phish.

[willard]

The studio scenes were filmed at Phase One studios in Scarborough, ON (closed in 2017). The studio staff worked with the props department to help the shots look authentic. Many of the mics used in the shots were actually part of the studio's vast inventory of high-end and vintage mics.

[bryan]

Emma Stone learned to play bass for the movie. She can play all the songs in the movie.

[javier]

There is a joke in the movie where Jason Sudeiki's character calls Jeff Garlin's character "Norm from Cheers" due to their physical resemblance. Jason Sudeikis's real life uncle is George Wendt, who played "Norm" on the tv show "Cheers".

[norma]

Loosely based on Pete Best, who was the original drummer for The Beatles, and can be seen at the beginning of the movie reading Rolling Stone Magazine with Vesuvius on the cover.

[kenneth]

Some of the scenes were filmed in Toronto, Canada (not actually Ohio). The Chinatown scene was filmed on Spadina street in Toronto's Asian district. One of the earliest club scenes when they exit the gig and into a back alley to a limo, was filmed in and outside an all ages club downtown called the Reverb.

[carl]

When Vesuvius' manager informed Fish that he is fired from the band, The song "Nobody's Fool" by Cinderella was playing in the background, specifically the lyrics can be heard over the scene: "seems like a thousand years since we broke the ties."

[jeffrey]

When Fish (Rainn Wilson) was chasing his former band in the beginning, he referenced a line from The Evil Dead (1981), telling them that he will "swallow their souls".

[cameron]

Eventually, Jason Sudeikis and Christina Applegate would end up playing roles as husband and wife in Hall Pass (2011)

[veronica]

Jeff Garlin and Jane Lynch appeared as husband and wife in this movie as well as in Sleepover (2004).

[nina]

Second film for Emma Stone (Amelia)