The American small units, companies and platoons, depicted did not exist. The glider infantry regiment assigned to the 101st Airborne Division was the 327th. When these glider infantry regiments were constituted in the early part of World War II, they had only two battalions. There was no third battalion in the regiment at the time of the battle of Bastogne. Instead, the first battalion of the 401st Glider Infantry Regiment was detailed to the command of the 327th. This meant that the glider infantry component of the 101st Airborne Division at this time had no "Item", "King", "Love", or "Mike" companies, the companies mentioned in this movie. This was done cleverly to avoid having any veterans of the 101st come forward to say something like: "I was in Item Company at Bastogne, and no such thing ever happened to us."
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Co-screenwriters Rita Rudner and Martin Bergman were married, as were stars Dame Emma Thompson and Sir Kenneth Branagh, though the latter pair have since divorced.
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According to Stephen Fry, he and Hugh Laurie were initially very hesitant to take part in this movie, as they could only imagine the response that the critics would have towards such a meta-casting of the two of them and Dame Emma Thompson "playing" old college friends. It was producer and director Sir Kenneth Branagh who waved away such concerns and encouraged them to take part.
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Near the end of the movie, after the drunken tirade by Andrew (Sir Kenneth Branagh), he apologizes to Roger (Hugh Laurie), saying he wouldn't blame him if he never spoke to Andrew again. Interestingly, this movie was the last time that these two appeared together on-screen, as of February 2020.
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Imelda Staunton and Dame Emma Thompson appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Nanny McPhee (2005), and the Harry Potter film franchise.
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Hugh Laurie wrote Roger's coffee jingle.
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The name of the railway station stop where a few of the friends got off to go to Peter Morton's (Stephen Fry's) place was "Old Marsden".
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Peter Morton (Stephen Fry) has an Apple Macintosh computer, but does not own a television. Fry was actually the second person in the U.K. to purchase a Mac PC, after Douglas Adams had bought the first two.
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Stephen Fry (Peter Morton), Tony Slattery (Brian), and Phyllida Law (Vera) appeared on Kingdom (2007).
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Several members of the leading cast did actually attend college together at Cambridge University. Stephen Fry, Dame Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Tony Slattery were also all members of the Cambridge Footlights Amateur Dramatic Club.
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Was originally written for an American cast, but the location was moved to Britain when producer and director Sir Kenneth Branagh joined the production. Ironically, Branagh had just come off of making Dead Again (1991), which had required him to master an American accent for his role in that movie.
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At one point, Andrew (Sir Kenneth Branagh) and Peter (Stephen Fry) discuss how they had meant to write a play together one day, yet never did so. Fourteen years after this movie's release, Fry and Branagh collaborated on a movie adaptation, The Magic Flute (2006), of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's famous opera "The Magic Flute".
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Peter's Friends - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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