Keeping the Faith - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

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

[camila]

When Jake and Anna go to the cinema they say they're going to see "García's film", they're talking about Andy Garcia and the movie is When a Man Loves a Woman (1994).

[duane]

While they are driving back from the airport, reminiscing about old school classmates, Brian says, "Remember Aaron Portnoy? He complained a lot." That's a reference to Philip Roth's novel, "Portnoy's Complaint."

[gabriel]

Interestingly enough for a film about religion, the female lead is played by a Scientologist.

[edgar]

There is a scene about the middle of the movie in which Rabbi Jake brings in a gospel choir to liven his service. As he urges the congregation to join in he shouts "come on, all the young Jews!" He is playing with a cherished, "mondegreen" - an often misused, misheard lyric - of David Bowie's and the Mott Hoople's "All the Young Dudes". The "misheard" words were sung regularly at fraternity and college parties throughout the '70s.

[ruby]

While Father Brian (Edward Norton) is commiserating with Paulie the bartender (Brian George), Brian clarifies: "You're a Sikh, Catholic Muslim with Jewish in-laws?" And Paulie responds, "Yes. Yes. It gets very complicated. I'm reading Dianetics." In fact, Brian George has a different but equally varied background: he was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents of Indian, Lebanese, and Iraqi descent who had emigrated to Israel from India. While George was still a baby, his family moved to London, and then, when George was a teenager, they moved again, this time to Toronto, Canada.

[jessie]

When young Brian is teaching young Jake the correct way to do the sign of the cross we see Brian consistent making the correct cross but Jake make several incorrect shapes with that last being a famous self-portrait of John Lennon.

[ray]

Casanova, the businessman in the office across the street, is played by Jenna Elfman's husband Bodhi Elfman.

[scarlett]

Dedicated to star Edward Norton's late mother Robin Norton.

[oscar]

The film's Director of Photography Anatais Michos would also go on to work with Edward Norton again about a year after this film was completed on the film, Death To Smoochy in which Norton co-starred with both Oscar Winner Robin Williams and Danny DeVito, who was also directing the film. Norton recommended Michos for the job due to his working relationship on this film.

[caroline]

In the airport scene, where limo drivers hold up signs with the names of people they're waiting for, one sign reads "S Blumberg." This is the name of the writer of the film, Stuart Blumberg.

[alyssa]

Composer Elmer Bernstein was hired due to an enthusiastic recommendation by the film's Editor Malcolm Campbell to Edward Norton, with whom Campbell had worked with when he was the primary editor for John Landis' films and Bernstein had scored for a period of ten or more years. Those films include An American Werewolf In London, Trading Places, Michael Jackson's Thriller, Spies Like Us, and Three Amigos! Campbell was an assistant editor when Bernstein first collaborated with Landis on National Lampoon's Animal House and also on Blues Brothers, where Bernstein provided the very brief "God Music" for the film. Bernstein was not involved with Twilight Zone The Movie which Campbell edited Landis' segment since the entire film was scored by the late Jerry Goldsmith.

[francisco]

The first movie starring Edward Norton to not be rated R.

[russell]

Stuart Blumberg (producer and writer of the film) appears in the movie as Len, a co-worker of Anna.

[kristina]

As of 2015, this is the only film Edward Norton has directed.

[carla]

The scene in which the young characters run in the park is a re-make of the scene shown in Jules and Jim (1962), another movie about a love triangle.

[bessie]

Milos Forman: Father Havel.

[ella]

All Jenna Elfman, Rena Sofer and Holland Tayler played parts in sitcom Two and a half Men.

[russell]

Edward Norton turned down a leading part in U-571 (2000) in order to make his directorial debut.

[cassandra]

During a sermon scene in the beginning, Edward Norton's character references the film Se7en (1995) as, "A popular movie with Brad Pitt". Se7en was directed by David Fincher, who also directed Norton and Pitt in Fight Club (1999).