William Baldwin and Kurt Russell went to a firefighter "boot camp" to learn the ropes. They even slept at a Chicago firehouse for about a month.
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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Fan of Quick Change or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Quick Change
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This film was made and released nine years after its source novel, which was first published in 1981.
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According to Australian "Movie" magazine, "the script [for this film] has been described as Dog Day Afternoon (1975) meets Animal Crackers (1930)".
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Debut theatrical feature film as a producer for actor-comedian Bill Murray. This picture remains [to date, September 2013] the only ever cinema movie where Murray has acted as a producer.
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The plane, on which the final scene of the movie takes place, is a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 belonging to the RIA (Royal Island Airways) company. While this plane type is real (and very popular at the time the movie was made), the RIA company appears to be fictional - there is no record of it ever existing.
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Bill Murray once said of this movie in an interview: "Everyone will enjoy this movie. But New Yorkers will enjoy it especially because they know how bad their city really is." In another later August 2010 interview with Dan Fierman of GQ Magazine, Murray said: "It's great. It's a great piece of writing. And how about the cast? You couldn't get that cast together for all the tea in China right now. I mean, Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub...".
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Premiere Magazine ran an up-to-the-minute article back in 1990 about the pifalls The Crew was going through and the tension it created.
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First of three collaborations, in varying capacities, of actor-comedian Bill Murray and writer-director Howard Franklin, who both co-directed the picture. The two would later work together on "Larger Than Life (1996)" and "The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)."
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The picture is, according to "Movie" magazine (Australia), a "heist film in the tradition of Topkapi (1964) and How to Steal a Million (1966)".
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Noted for its realistic portrayal of New York City.
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Paul Brenner of Allmovie described this movie as a "mixture of The Out of Towners (1970) and After Hours (1985)".
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The DVD sleeve notes describe the film's robbery as "Clown Day Afternoon" - a phrase which is a spoof of the title of the earlier Al Pacino heist drama Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
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The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Jason Robards and Geena Davis; and three Oscar nominees: Bill Murray, Randy Quaid and Stanley Tucci.
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This 1990 movie was the third and final filmed adaptation of Jay Cronley novels released in as many years. The previous adaptions were Funny Farm (1988) and Let It Ride (1989).
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The movie is actually not the first, but the second filmed adaptation of Jay Cronley's source comic-novel "Quick Change". This movie was made and released five years after the first, Hold-Up (1985), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Kim Cattrall, which had first debuted in 1985. Geena Davis played the Cattrall part in this movie.
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Several film critics reviewing the movie claimed that the film was one of actor Bill Murray's best performances.
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
Quick Change - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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