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Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | 2007 | Rolfe
Choice Movie Actor Drama | 2007 | Adam
2007 | Mike
Budget 20,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 22,222,308 USD
Every song that's played in the background is either played on Charlie's iPod or has its album mentioned by Charlie.
At first Adam Sandler declined his part because he was hesitant about it, although he thought the character was incredible after he read the script. A month later, he re-read the script and decided that he wanted to do it.
The video game that Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle play is Shadow of the Colossus (2005). It's a game about a man who slays colossi in an attempt to bring a woman back to life. Early scripts had Sandler play a simple, 1980s-style game, until Editor Jeremy Roush recalled that his own father watched the movie Aliens (1986) obsessively as a "thinly veiled kind of Vietnam veteran kind of story". Seeing the imagery of the colossi falling, he realized "someone who was dealing with 9/11 would be engrossed by a giant that keeps collapsing over and over again", so he demonstrated it to Writer and Director Mike Binder and the actors and actresses. With the approval of the game's Director Fumito Ueda, it was included in the movie.
The scooter itself is just powerful enough to make it technically illegal in New York City, which permits electric scooters, but has banned engine-powered ones like Charlie's. He's a bit of an outlaw.
The title is inspired by Pete Townshend's song "Love Reign O'er Me" from The Who's 1973 album "Quadrophenia", which was also the inspiration for the scooter in this film. The song appears twice on the film's soundtrack, the second time during the end credits. Pearl Jam plays the version during the end credits
"Charlie Fineman: [Charlie looks at Alan] I had three daughters. Alan Johnson: [surprised] I... I know. Charlie Fineman: Geena was five. Jenny was seven, she, uh... she liked boys already. Julie was 9. She was... she was older. They all looked alike, Johnson. Like Doreen. Doreen was my wife. DT. That was her nickname. Doreen Timpleman. She had a dog, Spider. Spider... the poodle. They'd wake me up all the time, Saturday mornings, you know, singing Beatles songs to me in harmony, the four of them... so cute, so cute. Doreen never judged me... never nagged like some wives do. Wanted me to take my shoes off so I didn't wreck the carpet. That's it. Doreen and the girls were VERY female. I... I... I was the oddball, you know. Mr. Man. They adored me, Johnson... Alan Johnson: I bet they did... I know they did, Charlie. Charlie Fineman: With the long brown hair... except little Geena. She kept the hair short... to be different from everybody... she, um, she had a birthmark, though. Looked like a burn... but it wasn't. She always said it was gonna go away, but it... it never did. Jenny, Jenny, this one... she wanted to be a gymnast. She was such a klutz, though. I didn't have the heart to mention it as a problem. They, uh, went to see Doreen's sister Ellen and her girls in Boston, and they took Spider, because... I had to work and they didn't trust me to feed her, but that was a joke. We were all going to DT's little cousin's wedding in Los Angeles, and I was gonna meet them out there... The kids wanted to go to Disneyland, but they... they uh, were already gonna miss a couple days of school, so we had to say no. You know. So I'm going out to meet them in Los Angeles, and on the way to JFK, I'm in a taxicab and I hear on the radio... [slowly starts to cry] Charlie Fineman: I get there and the man tells me the plane's from Boston... another man tells me there's two planes. [sobs] Charlie Fineman: Then I go inside the airport and I'm watching. I'm watching on the television... and I... and I... I... I saw it. I saw it and I felt it at the same time. I thought about Geena's birthmark, and I... I felt them burning..."
"Charlie Fineman: I don't need to talk about her or look at pictures. 'Cause the truth is, a lot of times, I see her, on the street. I walk down the street, I see her in someone else's face. Clearer than any of the pictures you carry with you. I get that you're in pain, but you've got each other. You got each other! And I'm the one who's gotta see her and the girls all the time. Everywhere I go! I even see the dog. That's how fucked up I still am! I look at a German shepherd, I see our goddamn poodle. [kisses Ginger and walks away]"
