Actress Blair Brown was cast in the co-starring lead role of Dr. Nell Porter because she resembled a young Katharine Hepburn.
The Old Man & the Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford won an Oscar in the same year. Spacek won as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Redford won as Best Director for Ordinary People (1980).
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Reunites director David Lowery and actor Casey Affleck. Their prior collaborations are Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) and A Ghost Story (2017).
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In an interview he gave during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Robert Redford talked about this comedic film being a good note to end on, since the actor wanted his "last acting job to be fun."
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The title of the movie is obviously a play on Ernest Hemingway's book, "The Old Man and the Sea".
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According to David Lowery, the final montage of Forrest Tucker is like a summary of Robert Redford's career. It is as if "all those escapes almost feel like it's like you're listing the movies he's made".
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Decision to quit acting on Robert Redford's part was taken when he decided to act in this movie.
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The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Casey Affleck, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Keith Carradine; and one Oscar nominee: Tom Waits (although Redford and Carradine's win, and Waits' nomination were in non-acting categories).
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David Lowery met with Disney about Pete's Dragon (2016) the same day that he met Robert Redford about this movie.
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According to David Lowery, he wasn't excited necessarily about making a bank robber movie or a cops and robbers movie. Making the Robert Redford movie was really exciting to him.
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It was a suggestion on Tom Waits' part that perhaps his character could have a monologue. When Waits brought the idea to the table, David Lowery asked him if he had any stories in mind that he'd like to tell and he told Lowery the Christmas story, which as far as Lowery is concerned is 100% true.
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Casey Affleck's brother, Ben Affleck, was also in a movie about bank robberies, The Town (2010).
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This movie was the first time that Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek had worked together. However they both appeared in Michael Ritchie directed movies: Redford in Downhill Racer (1969) and The Candidate (1972) and Spacek in Prime Cut (1972).
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David Lowery tried to write the true crime version of this movie and the journalistic version of what really happened, and Robert Redford never felt like he fit into that. In other words, according to Lowery himself, his idea of who Redford was as an actor never really fit into the true story of Forrest Tucker. So after many, many drafts, he realized that what he needed to write was the movie that Forrest Tucker would have wanted to see. He needed to write the version of Forrest Tucker that he saw in his own head as opposed to the one that really showed all the things he did. There was a thin line between two, but it was a very important line and that line allowed him to write a movie that was the version that Redford could excel playing.
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Near the end, Tucker hijacks a car with a young mother and her son but only until he realizes her son is in the car. He gets them to stop at a diner, where he leaves them and takes their car. Above them is a sign about the good prices of the meal, saying "It's a steal!"
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The prison break montage features a clip from The Chase (1966) starring a young Robert Redford.
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According to David Lowery, the clip from Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) was used because he saw similarities between Forrest Tucker and Warren Oates' character.
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When she is dropped off at her home by Robert Redford's character Forrest, Sissy Spacek's face is momentarily illuminated by a bright red light, supposedly the brake light of Forrest's car as he turns the ignition. This image is a clear reference to the climax of Spacek's earlier film Carrie (1976).
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John David Washington & Isiah Whitlock Jr. previously appeared together as Southern police officers in BlacKkKlansman (2018).
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It was Robert Redford who was interested in talking to David Lowery about adapting David Grann's article that Redford had been wanting to make since he read it when it first came out in 2003.
The Old Man & the Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Old Man & the Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
The Old Man & the Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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