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Identity | Custody Battle
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Budget 42,000,000 USD
Chevy Chase (Deke - Channel 4 News Director) could not be credited because he was under contract with Warner Brothers at the time. Columbia Pictures was allowed to hire Chase as long as he would go uncredited so he would not violate his contract.
Reportedly, Dustin Hoffman didn't get along with director Stephen Frears, to the point where, on one occasion, Hoffman yelled for everyone to hear, "Directors who listen to my advice win Oscars, and those who don't go direct Havana (1990)", a jab at Sydney Pollack, who directed Hoffman in Tootsie (1982), another director with whom he didn't get along. However, whatever happened between Frears and Hoffman was probably forgotten. They got back together many years later on The Program (2015).
The idea for the film was born when producer Laura Ziskin and story co-writer Alvin Sargent were watching the 1988 presidential primaries. They became intrigued by television's power to instantly create identity and reputation with a single act or image. When Ziskin later saw television news reports of a plane crash, in which people were rescued by "a man who came out of nowhere", she gave the scenario a comic spin: "What if a truly wonderful act were performed by a person who's actually pretty crummy, a lowlife, a criminal, a Bernie LaPlante?" Director Stephen Frears added: "The press are treated as a fact of contemporary life--powerful, pervasive, and often highly amusing in their feverish pursuit of a story."
The film was re-titled "Accidental Hero" in several territories. Geena Davis had recently starred in The Accidental Tourist (1988), for which she had won a Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Award.
Mariah Carey originally recorded her number one hit single, "Hero", for this movie, but Tommy Mottola of Sony Records did not think the power ballad was a good fit.
"Bernie LaPlante: [Bernie drives through a rainstorm] I know why it's raining. I coulda predicted it. It's raining because my fucking wipers are all fucked up. If my wipers were okay, the fucking sun would be shining, AT NIGHT."
"Bernie LaPlante: You remember when I said how I was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird. People are always talking ya about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or somethin', and they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain't no truth. All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of bullshit on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is, you pick the layer of bullshit that you prefer and that's your bullshit, so to speak."
