Swimming with Sharks - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[fred]

Buddy Ackerman's character was inspired by real life movie mogul Joel Silver whom Huang used to work for.

[kyle]

Guy's three cronies, Manny, Moe and Jack, are named after the Pep Boys (national automotive supplies chain).

[elmer]

The women Buddy is with all have names that start with "M."

[janice]

Shot in 18 days.

[nina]

In one scene, Buddy Ackerman (Kevin Spacey) tells an employee that he will become a shoe salesmen. Kevin Spacey worked as shoe salesmen before becoming a successful actor

[francisco]

The oft-referenced Foster Kane is an obvious reference to Citizen Kane (1941).

[terry]

Kevin Spacey's character refers to Benicio Del Toro's character as "dog boy" in an early scene. Benicio played Duke the Dog-Faced Boy in Big Top Pee-wee (1988).

[chris]

Kevin Spacey and Benicio Del Toro also worked together in The Usual Suspects (1995) a year later.

[ruby]

The quote "...you've got no brains. Because there are no story-book romances, no fairy-tale endings. So before you run out and change the world, ask yourself, 'What do you really want?" was sampled for the track "Blindeye" on the 1998 Circle of Dust album, Disengage.

[ivan]

Director George Huang was convinced to make this film by Robert Rodriguez. Huang used to work for Columbia Pictures, which acquired the distribution rights for Rodriguez' film El Mariachi (1992) in 1991. The two met and Huang shared some of his would-be movie stories with Rodriguez, who - as documented in his memoir, "Rebel Without a Crew" - told Huang that he should simply "go out and make a movie." As such, Huang resigned from his position and set out to make this film.

[liam]

Directorial debut of George Huang.

[edgar]

Both Michelle Forbes & Jerry Levine appeared in Seinfeld (1989).

[charlie]

In the opening sequence, Guy tells a legendary story of Shelley Winters arriving for an audition with her Academy Awards statuettes in a handbag. Guy says Winters pulls out three statuettes from her bag. In reality, Winters was nominated four times but won only twice. Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965).

[sandra]

'Michelle Forbes' said she got cast in the film during a time when she was frustrated by the entertainment industry and considering another career, feelings which fit perfectly with the nature of the film.