The original score, composed and performed by James Brown & Fred Wesley, has been erased from all current versions of the film in the US. In its place is a poorly constructed temp score featuring source music from other 1973 era American International films such as "Coffy."
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Actor Richard Jenkins, who played Russell, had made his theatrical feature film debut in in Lawrence Kasdan's earlier film Silverado (1985).
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The name of the pub that Russell (Richard Jenkins) wanted to open and call was "The Partridge and the Plough". In the earlier Lawrence Kasdan film The Big Chill (1983), Michael Gold (Jeff Goldblum) wanted to open a night-club.
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Actors Dianne Wiest and Richard Jenkins had both previously appeared in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) around twenty-six years earlier.
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The film's closing credits declared that the movie was "inspired by Mac, who was rescued and lost, searched for and found".
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The picture was selected to screen as the Opening Night Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2012.
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The dog 'Freeway' was really played by two dogs. Casey, a multi-colored Collie mix, and Kuma, his Aussie mix understudy, were seasoned animal actors who came to the production through "Good Dog Animals", run by professional trainers Guin Solomon and Steve Solomon. Casey and Kuma have life stories to rival Freeway's: they were both spotted in shelters by trainers who recognized the right personalities, smarts, and charisma for great onscreen canines. Casey had been abandoned in the desert, found with an old rope embedded into his neck (he still bears a scar). He was found in the Las Vegas shelter while his trainer was on a shoot there. Kuma was adopted from the South Los Angeles shelter when he was a just a young puppy. The Kasdans had also adopted their cattle-dog mix, Mac, from an L.A. shelter.
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The movie features a dog as a key character as did writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's earlier picture The Accidental Tourist (1988).
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The eleventh theatrical feature film directed by Lawrence Kasdan.
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Diane Keaton previously appeared in Father of the Bride with Steve Martin, who that same year appeared in Kasdan's film Grand Canyon. She also appeared in Annie Hall, which featured Jeff Goldblum, who worked with Kasdan on The Big Chill and Silverado.
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One of numerous collaborations of editor Carol Littleton and writer-director Lawrence Kasdan.
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First cinema movie in around nine years directed by Lawrence Kasdan's who last directing job at the time had been the Stephen King thriller Dreamcatcher (2003).
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First independent theatrical feature film of writer-director-producer Lawrence Kasdan.
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Russell (Richard Jenkins)'s motto was "Anything's Possible!".
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Lawrence Kasdan: Uncredited, as a man on a street.
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The cast's two actresses who had won Academy Awards, Diane Keaton and Dianne Wiest, both had won all their Oscars for films written and directed by Woody Allen, they being a Best Actress Oscar for Keaton from Annie Hall (1977) and two Best Supporting Actress Oscars for Wiest, one from Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) and one from Bullets Over Broadway (1994).
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The breed of the canine Freeway (Casey) was a tan and black fifty pound Collie Mix with white feet and white chest.
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Co-screenwriter Meg Kasdan said: "We wanted a mixed breed to play Freeway". Co-writer with husband director Lawrence Kasdan, the 'Darling Companion' script was based on their own experience loving, losing, searching for and finding their beloved shelter mutt Mac in the High Rockies. "We're prejudiced, of course, but we think mutts are the best dogs", Meg Kasdan added.
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First produced theatrical feature film acting as a full producer of Lawrence Kasdan in eight years with Kasdan's last cinema movie as a full producer at the time having been Dreamcatcher (2003). In between, Kasdan was an executive producer on The TV Set (2006) and In the Land of Women (2007), both projects directed by his sons Jake Kasdan and Jonathan Kasdan respectively.
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Producers and co-screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan (producer) and Meg Kasdan (executive producer) are married.
Darling Companion - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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