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GG.exe said:
Has there ever been a movie where real life father, mother, and daughter and/or son, all played the same role?
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"It runs in the family" (2003) film with

Kirk Douglas

Michael Douglas; and Michael's son Cameron playing 3 generations of the Gromberg family.

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Kirk's ex wife and Michael's mother, Diana Dill played the mother in the film.
 
The 2009 movie "Nine" features seven different nationalities among the main cast:

Irish: Daniel Day-Lewis (he actually has dual Irish-British citizenship)
French: Marion Cotillard
Spanish: Penelope Cruz
Australian: Nicole Kidman
English: Judi Dench
American: Kate Hudson, Fergie
Italian: Sophia Loren


Can any movie top this?
 
emuboy said:
Twin actresses Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were popular child and teenage stars from the late 1980s to the mid 2000s, getting their big break on the sitcom 'Full House' and starring in a whole series of movies for about a decade after this show ended in 1995.

However, despite them having such similar looks that the two girls were able to share the role of Michelle Tanner in Full House and always playing identical twins in their movies, the girls are not medically identical twins (one egg splits) but fraternal twin sisters (two eggs). Now as adults and no longer in the acting profession, one girl stands slightly taller than the other and one left handed and the other right (although mirror image identical twins have that characteristic), but this seems one of the few ways to tell the sisters apart.
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Their younger sister Elizabeth is Wanda Maximoff from WandaVision & various Marvel movies.

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When 'Back to the Future' was released in 1985 it's present day was actually set in the future. The initial release date for BTTF was 3rd July 1985, but the events in the present day when Doc finishes the time machine and Marty travels back to 1955 are set in late October 1985, about 3 months in the future.

Of course when BTTF 2 was released it was 1989, and the 'present day' of 1985 was four years in the past, and BTTF 3 was released in 1990. There weren't too many problems with BTTF 2 as very little of it took place in 'real' 1985, just 2 minutes or so at the very start in the re-shot scene with Elizabeth Shue instead of Claudia Wells and Biff seeing the time machine. The rest of the film takes place in 2015, a dystopian 1985 and back in 1955. However in BTTF 3, about half an hour right at the end of the movie takes place in the real 1985. It is the same day that Marty, Jennifer and Doc left at the end of the first film, but by now in real life five years had gone by and it definitely shows.
 
It's fairly commonplace for actors well into their 20s and sometimes even 30s to play characters aged in their late teens and who are in their final years of high school or first years of college/university. Some well-known examples are Grease, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to the Future, Beverley Hills 90210 and Dawson's Creek. On some occasions these older actors have to play the same age as other actors who are or close to the age of the young characters they are playing. One good example is the original Footloose in 1984, where Kevin Bacon (26) and Lori Singer (27) convincingly played 18-year-old high school students, but in scenes with Sarah Jessica Parker (aged 18, looked 18 and playing 18) you could see they were older.

However, can you think of any movies or TV shows where there were actors the same age in real life portraying characters of very different ages? One example I could find was from the TV show Doctor Who, where English actress Jackie Lane recently died a couple of weeks short of her 80th birthday. Lane was born in 1941, and in 1966 was cast to play a new companion Dorothea 'Dodo' Chaplet, aged about 16. While not unusual for a woman aged 25 to play a teenager, the Dodo character never really worked out on the show and Lane's tenure lasted only six months. Her departure story saw the arrival of two new companions, hot blonde action girl Polly (who was something like a Bond girl) and played by Anneke Wills, and Ben, a handsome, brave and dashing sailor, played by the late Michael Craze. Both characters were approximately aged in their mid-20s the same as the actors who played them with Wills born in 1941 and Craze in 1942, both actors around the same age as their brief co-star Jackie Lane but playing adults while Lane played a teenager.
 
Got a good one here!

In 1990, Raquel Welch's son Damon married Rebecca Trueman, son of English cricketing legend Freddie Trueman. Here are some photos from the day:

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Her son looks a lot like Henry Cavill, IMO. Sadly, the marriage broke up after a few years.
 
I learned this from News Breakfast on the ABC day.

Jackie Coogan who played Uncle Fester on the original Adams Family tv show was also a big child movie star under the name of Coogan Bill.
According to his wikipage he earned 3-4 million but only ended up with 126k because his mum & stepdad lived the high life.

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worbod said:
The 2009 movie "Nine" features seven different nationalities among the main cast:

Irish: Daniel Day-Lewis (he actually has dual Irish-British citizenship)
French: Marion Cotillard
Spanish: Penelope Cruz
Australian: Nicole Kidman
English: Judi Dench
American: Kate Hudson, Fergie
Italian: Sophia Loren


Can any movie top this?
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The new Suicide Squad film has 11 nationalities amongst the main cast or playing members of the suicide squad

Australia - Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) & Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang)
New Zealand - Taika Waititi
Canada - Nathan Fillion (TDK)
USA - Michael Rooker (Savant)
England - Idris Alba (Bloodsport)
Scotland - Peter Capaldi (Thinker)
Sweden - Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flag)
Germany - Flula Borg (Javelin)
Brazil - Alice Braga (Sol Soria)
Mexico - Joaquín Cosio (General Mateo Suarez)
Argentina - Juan Diego Botto (Luna)

I suppose it helps when you have such a large ensemble cast.
 
In the 1990 Australian comedy 'The Big Steal' the main character Danny played by Ben Mendelsohn goes to pick up his dream girl Joanna Johnson (Claudia Karvan) for their first date. There Danny meets Joanna's strict father Mr. Johnson (played by Tim Robertson), who takes an instant dislike to Danny and lays down a list of rules that Danny must follow, promising that he would belt the living daylights out of him if there were any transgressions. A terrified Danny agrees. Later Danny annoys Mr. Johnson even more by waking him up early in the morning, and by being at the house with Joanna when Mr. and Mrs. Johnson return unexpectedly, Mr. Johnson chasing Danny up the street.

While Mr. Johnson was not impressed with Danny he wound up with him as a son-in-law, as Danny and Joanna married at the end of the film. However three years earlier in the 1987 coming of age drama film 'The Year My Voice Broke' which was set in the NSW Tablelands in 1962, Tim Robertson and Ben Mendelsohn played father and son. Robertson's character Bob in this film despaired at the antics of his son Trevor, who was hyperactive and would do all sorts of stupid stunts like joy-riding cars or climbing wheat silos.
 
If you watched the 1980 South African film 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' when you were younger you might have been puzzled as to why the main female character Kate Thompson had an American accent, when she wasn't from America.

Originally the film was spoken in Afrikaans, and then dubbed in English for international release. However during this process it was decided that the South African accent of the actress who played Kate, Sandra Prinsloo was still too strong for overseas audiences, hence the dub by an American actress. The other main characters such as Andrew Stein, M'Pudi, Sam Boga and Jack Hindes retain their South African dialects whether dubbed by the original actors or had other people doing voiceovers for their characters.
 
Blythe Danner appeared in a 1972 episode of Columbo titled Etude in Black, which is often rated as one of the better episodes, with a fine performance from John Cassavetes as the villain. Blythe plays his wife. Here is a shot of her from the episode playing tennis.

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If you look closely, you can see a baby bump. This is how Gwyneth Paltrow made her guest appearance on Columbo.

EDIT: I found another picture, of her talking with Peter Falk. In this one, her pregnancy is obvious.
 
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In the movie Dumb and Dumber, Jim Careys character has a chipped tooth. In actuality, Jim Carey actually does have that chipped tooth, which he got in school when a kid jumped on his head. So for the movie he just took the cap off he had always had to make himself look dumb for the movie.
 
GG.exe said:
In the movie Dumb and Dumber, Jim Careys character has a chipped tooth. In actuality, Jim Carey actually does have that chipped tooth, which he got in school when a kid jumped on his head. So for the movie he just took the cap off he had always had to make himself look dumb for the movie.
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I think I read something similar about Brad Pitt and Fight Club.
 
emuboy said:
John and Hayley Mills were also in Tiger Bay together in 1959, although that time they did not play father and daughter.
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On the subject of the Mills family, Hayley Mills starred in the 1961 movie 'Whistle Down the Wind', which was adapted from a novel written by her mother Mary Mills. Hayley Mills has an older sister Juliet who is also an actress and a younger brother Jonathon Mills, who became a film director. However, I could not find any movies or TV shows in which Juliet or Hayley appeared together, nor any instances of Jonathon Mills directing any movies in which his older sisters acted.
 
In 1987, Australian film director/screenwriter John Duigan was trying to get a movie called 'Flirting' financed and into production. Unfortunately for Duigan, Australian film producers were not sold on the proposed movie and subsequently not willing to finance and produce the film. Some producers were however interested in a prequel script to Flirting, and gave it the green light.

What was the film? It was 'The Year My Voice Broke', a coming of age drama film set in the NSW Tablelands in 1962 and featuring young stars Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn and Leone Carmen in the lead roles. The movie was a massive success with audiences and critics alike, winning a swag of awards and years later often comes up on lists of best Aussie films of all time.

So successful was The Year My Voice Broke that Flirting, the film Duigan initially wanted to produce, was given the green light and filmed and released in 1990. Like its predecessor it was a huge critical and commercial success, boasting a good cast and returning a good profit, and like TYMVB captured a number of prestigious Australian film awards.

However, more than 30 years later while TYMVB is still well remembered and I saw it for sale in JB Hi Fi and screened on TV not long ago. Flirting on the other hand despite its success in its own right seems to have faded away into obscurity. I haven't seen it on TV for years (at least since the mid 1990s), never on DVD and few people seem to remember it three decades on.

A further piece of trivia from these films is that there was a third film in the series planned in the early 1990s, but it was cancelled and never went into production, leaving the trilogy incomplete.
 
Heard recently that the role of Shrek had been originally written specifically for Chris Farley. Farley died soon after the script was completed & the project was shelved for years until Mike Myers was considered. Myers insisted Shrek have a Scottish accent & the rest you probably know.
 
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