Cemetery Junction - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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

[tammy]

The original title was "The Men at the Pru", an advertising slogan for the Prudential insurance company. During the writing of the film, the Prudential allowed Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to use their archives for research. However, after reading the finished script, the company decided it didn't like how it was being portrayed and refused to allow the usage of their name. The new title comes from an actual area in the town of Reading, where the film takes place.

[jessica]

The period depicted in the film - 1973 - was one of great political upheaval. The country was beset by skyrocketing inflation, battered by the oil crisis, while the incumbent Conservative government was locked in a bitter battle with the trade unions. This led to widespread strikes of all services and a 3-day working week.

[sophie]

David Earl's character, Brian, was created by Earl himself before the movie. As fans of Earl's work, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant asked him to play Brian in the movie.

[beth]

All the night sequences were shot during the day.

[norma]

Three years after making this movie, in which they play father and daughter, Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones played lovers in The Invisible Woman. In a 2013 interview with Jones and Fiennes on NPR, Jones said that it was "weird" and "very Freudian" to go from playing one relationship to the other, but Fiennes disagreed, saying "It's just a job. Come on."

[toni]

The film's fairly disastrous box office performance in its native England prompted its American distributor to forego a theatrical release and send it straight to DVD.

[linda]

Whitley Home is the name of the home builder on the billboard that Bruce and Snork vandalize. Whitley is also the name of an area in the town of Reading, England in which Ricky Gervais was born.

[willard]

A lot of the banter between Ricky Gervais and Anne Reid (playing Gervais's character's mother) was improvised.