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Fight | Bravery
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Budget 30,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 6,100,000 USD
This film marks the last leading role for Chris Farley who died five months before the film released. However it is not his last film appearance as he had a cameo for the film Dirty Work (1998) released later that same year.
Elias, the shop owner that Bartholomew Hunt goes to for a bath, a shave, and a tooth removal, is loosely based on Charles Willson Peale, a painter from colonial times who also practiced taxidermy and dentistry.
Film critic Gene Siskel had a passionate dislike for Chris Farley and his starring vehicle Black Sheep (1996) was one of only three films he walked out on in 30 years of reviewing films. Since this film was released five months after Farley's death, he and his partner Roger Ebert were prevented from reviewing it and Dirty Work (1998) in which Farley had a cameo, released the following month after this film out of respect for Farley's family and friends in the entertainment business who were grieving over his passing. They felt his review and comments about Farley would be negative and they were not emotionally prepared to deal with this in light of his untimely death. Ebert on the other hand liked Farley's work on Saturday Night Live (1975), and felt that Farley had just not found the right film script worthy of his talent and felt Farley had potential in movies if he was given the right screenplay.
Bill Murray, Hugh Laurie, and Hugh Grant were considered for the role of Leslie Edwards.
Filmed in fall 1996 under the title "Edwards & Hunt." It was originally intended for release in summer 1997, but was delayed for a year due to a merger between Turner Broadcasting (which bankrolled this film) and Time Warner.
"Hunt: I name this here fork "Pittsburgh Nellie"; a Welsh whore who could do things with her one good arm that'd make you forget that *thing* on her neck."
"Jackson: Sir, Higgins has a story. Edwards: Well, Higgins the floor is yours. Higgins: This particular event happened last summer on my uncle's farm in Virginia. My brother and I had just finished cutting a field of hay and were enjoying the evening meal under the shade of an elm tree. He went down for water by the creek and when he was gone, I took a bowl that was filled with delicious plum pudding and placed into it, not one, but two large pieces of sheep shit. When he returned I encouraged him to taste the plum pudding... And as sure as Im standing before you, he did! He ate it all. Shit Pudding! Edwards: You got your brother to eat sheep dung. That is a very interesting story. Hunt: Tell him the ending, that's the best part. Higgins: Oh yeah. To be perfectly honest with you sir, I have no brother. It was me. I ate sheep shit! Swear to God. Edwards: Clever twist there on the ending."
