Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriler
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 130 minutes
Rating: 5.0/10
Languages: English

Director:

Chris Weitz

Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by :

Melissa Rosenberg
Stephenie Meyer

Produced by:

Bill Bannerman
Marty Bowen
Wyck Godfrey
Mark Morgan
David Roker

Music By:

Alexandre Desplat

Cast:

Kristen Stewart - Bella Swan
Christina Jastrzembska - Gran
Robert Pattinson - Edward Cullen
Billy Burke - Charlie Swan
Anna Kendrick - Jessica
Michael Welch - Mike
Justin Chon - Eric
Christian Serratos - Angela
Taylor Lautner - Jacob Black
Ashley Greene - Alice Cullen
Jackson Rathbone - Jasper Whitlock
Russell Roberts - Mr. Berty
Cam Gigandet - James
Michael Sheen - Aro
Jamie Campbell Bower - Caius
Christopher Heyerdahl - Marcus
Peter Facinelli - Dr. Carlisle Cullen
Curtis Caravaggio - Rogue Vampire
Daniel Cudmore - Felix
Charlie Bewley - Demetri
Rachelle Lefevre - Victoria
Elizabeth Reaser - Esme Cullen
Kellan Lutz - Emmett Cullen
Nikki Reed - Rosalie Hale
Chaske Spencer - Sam Uley
Gil Birmingham - Billy Black
Graham Greene - Harry Clearwater
Adrien Dorval - Bob Marks (Neighbor)
Michael Adamthwaite - Chet
Alexander Mendeluk - Frat Boy #1
Hunter Jackson - Frat Boy #2
Gavin Bristol - Frat Boy #3
Sean McGrath - Frat Boy #4
Kiowa Gordon - Embry Call
Tyson Houseman - Quil Ateara
Alex Meraz - Paul
Bronson Pelletier - Jared
Edi Gathegi - Laurent
Tinsel Korey - Emily
Corinna Russo - Italian Child
Mariagrazia Pompei - Italian Mother (as Maria Grazia Pompei)
Roberto Marchetti - Italian Father
Alessandro Federico - Police Officer
Dakota Fanning - Jane
Justine Wachsberger - Gianna (Receptionist)
Cameron Bright - Alec
Noot Seear - Heidi
Tom Townsend - Grath
Peter Lambert - Romeo

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Plot: On her 18th birthday, Bella Swan wakes up from a dream in which she sees herself as an old woman. She expresses her distaste with growing older than her boyfriend Edward Cullen, a vampire who stopped aging at 17. Edward's family throws Bella a birthday party. While unwrapping a gift, Bella gets a paper cut, which causes Edward's adoptive brother, Jasper, to be overwhelmed by her blood's scent and attempt to kill her. Realizing the danger he and his family pose to Bella, Edward decides to end their relationship, and the Cullens move away from Forks, Washington.

Edward's departure leaves Bella heartbroken and depressed for months. However, when her father, Charlie, attempts to send her to live with her mother, Bella agrees to spend time with her friends. After seeing a movie with Jessica, Bella sees a group of men who remind her of a time when Edward rescued her previously, and she is surprised to see a vision of Edward warning her against approaching them. Bella discovers that all thrill-seeking activities grant her visions of Edward. She also finds comfort in her deepening friendship with Jacob Black, a cheerful companion who eases her pain over losing Edward. When Jacob is unable to see Bella for weeks, she discovers that he is a werewolf, an age-old enemy of vampires. Jacob's pack members are on constant patrol for Victoria, a vampire searching to kill Bella, leaving Jacob little time to spend with Bella. Alone, Bella returns to seeking thrill-inducing activities.

A series of miscommunications leads Edward to believe that Bella has killed herself while cliff-diving. Distraught over her supposed suicide, Edward flees to Italy to provoke the Volturi, a powerful coven of vampires who are capable of killing him. Alice, Edward's adoptive sister, and Bella rush to Italy to save Edward, and arrive just in time to stop him. However, the Volturi decide that Bella, a human who knows that vampires exist, must either be killed or transformed into a vampire herself. Alice stops them from killing her by showing them a vision of the future in which Bella has been transformed. Once they return home to Forks, Edward tells Bella that he has always loved her and only left town to protect her. She forgives him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being transformed into a vampire, to Edward and Jacob's dismay. Edward gives Bella a choice: either she lets Alice change her after their graduation, or, if Bella agrees to marry him, he will change her himself. However, Jacob reminds them of a treaty the Cullens have made with the werewolves: they will not attack each other, as long as the Cullens never bite a human.

Goofs:

• Revealing mistakes: At the birthday party, when Dr. Cullen is stitching Bella up, they show a close up of a syringe with a type of liquid in it. Regardless of the type of liquid, in order to inject anything into the human body, the syringe must be free of air bubbles. The syringe clearly has a large bubble of air.
• Continuity: While Bella and Edward are embracing each other right after they met up in Volterra and are interrupted, Edward's body is not completely "whited-out", only his face is. This is going on the entire time he is speaking to someone in the Volturri. His face is extremely pale, but his neck and abdomen is the color of a human being.
• Continuity: After fighting with the Volturi, Edward's robe changes between being tied closed and completely open.
• Revealing mistakes: In the scene in Bella's bedroom after Edward's return, the camera shakes as if someone has bumped into it.
• Continuity: In the scene when Bella first joins her friends at the table in the school cafeteria after her long depression, as she is talking to Mike, if you look at her hair by her left ear, you can see a bobby pin that may have fallen out of her hair piece or is just not hidden well. When the scenes changes to Mike and then back to Bella the bobby pin is gone.
• Continuity: During the scene where Charlie is telling Bella she is going back to Jacksonville because of her depression, the part in Bella's hair changes slightly between shots.
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Ben takes the fingerprint of Abigail to be able to descent to the conservation room via the lift. When in the elevator, he removes his glove. He should have kept it to be able to call the lift again.
• Continuity: Bella's hair color changes frequently. In some shots it is clearly black, whilst in others it is Bella's normal brown. This is because the actress portraying her, Kristen Stewart, cut and dyed her hair during filming.

Trivia:

• Catherine Hardwicke, director of Twilight (2008/I), the first movie in the Twilight Saga, was set to be the director of 'New Moon' as well. Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, Hardwicke had to back out.
• After months of speculation and rumors, director Chris Weitz and the novel's author, Stephenie Meyer, confirmed on her official website that Taylor Lautner would be reprising his role as Jacob Black. It was doubted as the filmmakers feared he would not be able to become fit enough in time. However, he was given the go-ahead after gaining 26 pounds of muscle.
• Each member of the wolf pack had to have papers proving their Native decent. Spencer is Lakota (Sioux), Pelletier is Cree-Metis, Meraz is Purepecha (Tarasco), Gordon is Hualapai, and Houseman, who was discovered at an open casting call, is Cree.
• Actors of the wolf pack went through "wolf camp" together to get buff and bond with each other.
• Shares filming location of Montepulciano, Italy with Diane Lane's romantic comedy Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) and the coming of age/study abroad documentary Di passaggio (2009).
• During the filming of Bella's birthday party, Jackson Rathbone got so into character that both Peter Facinelli and Kellan Lutz had to hold him back. During one of the takes, Elizabeth Reaser was knocked to the ground.
• Because it took 36 hours to turn Nikki Reed's brown hair blond, it was reported that she would wear a wig to play Rosalie.
• Noot Seear was painted completely white, in spite of not tanning for the previous two months.
• Chris Weitz's third movie based on a bestselling book.
• This is the first (and to date only) time director Chris Weitz handles a movie about vampires. However his grandmother had a lead role in the Spanish vampire film Drácula (1931) and his brother Paul Weitz directed Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) featuring vampires.
• Director Chris Weitz said this was a easier process than his other film The Golden Compass (2007) as he found "a lot less interference from Summit [Entertainment] and a lot more understanding of the books than New Line had of The Golden Compass" - which Chris said ended up being "completely re-cut" by the studio. He thinks that Summit Entertainment "understands the importance of the [Twilight] books - members of which who have read the books and appreciate them - not just see them as engines of possible profit".
• This film is the first sequel Chris Weitz has directed. He was signed on to direct a sequel to his previous film, The Golden Compass (2007); like this film, the sequel was scheduled to be released in late 2009.
• Ashley Greene wore a different wig than the one she wore in Twilight, to portray Alice Cullen. She also cut her hair quite short so that it could fit under the wig.
• Jamie Campbell Bower, who stars as Volturi member Caius, originally auditioned for the role of Edward Cullen in Twilight (2008/I).
• "New Moon" is actually Robert Pattinson's favorite book in the Twilight series.
• Peter Lambert edited a portion of the film during his daily commute. This may be the first major motion picture in which the biggest portion of the first assembly of the film was edited in the backseat of a car.
• Summit Entertainment greenlit this sequel one day after Twilight (2008/I) had opened in theaters.
• The film's American premiere was held on 16 November 2009, which, in the lunar cycle, is a new moon.
• WILHELM SCREAM: resounds twice during the movie FacePunch that Mike, Bella, and Jacob are attending together.
• Broke the record for the biggest one-day gross in the US with $72.7 million. Former record holder was The Dark Knight (2008).
• The ring Bella wears on her index finger the whole movie is set with a large moonstone.

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Julie & Julia is based on the book by Julie Powell, a frustrated New York bureaucrat who wants to be a writer. "But you're not a writer until someone publishes you," she moans. So she gives herself a challenge: to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in one year, and to blog about it. As Powell (played with chirpy determination by Amy Adams), begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own--and in the end it does provide the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise. But mostly, Julie & Julia is a valentine to Child, to Child's amazing love affair with her dashing husband, Paul (Stanley Tucci, as divine as any soufflé in the film), and to her outlook on embracing life, and ordering seconds. Streep throws herself into the Child role with real affection for her character, and while certain of Child's idiosyncrasies--including her warbly voice and unflappable haphazardness in the kitchen--are retained, it's Child's character and vision which form Streep's portrayal, and which make the film so involving and rewarding.

Nora Ephron directs with deftness and a light touch, though she seems at times to be encouraging some of Meg Ryan's onscreen tics in Adams (the self-conscious head tilt, for one). But mostly she simply allows Streep to channel Child and her love of food, her husband, and 1950s Paris. And that is a recipe for something truly sublime

Category:Biography
All Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release Year: 2009
Country:USA
Runtime: 123 minutes
Rating: 7.7/10
Languages: English

Director:

Nora Ephron

Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS

Writing by :

Nora Ephron
Julie Powell
Julia Child
Alex Prud'homme

Produced by:

John Bernard
Dianne Dreyer
Nora Ephron
Donald J. Lee Jr.
Laurence Mark
Amy Robinson
Scott Rudin
J.J. Sacha
Eric Steel
Dana Stevens

Music By:

Alexandre Desplat

Cast:

Meryl Streep - Julia Child
Amy Adams - Julie Powell
Stanley Tucci - Paul Child
Chris Messina - Eric Powell
Linda Emond - Simone Beck
Helen Carey - Louisette Bertholle
Mary Lynn Rajskub - Sarah
Jane Lynch - Dorothy McWilliams
Joan Juliet Buck - Madame Brassart
Crystal Noelle - Ernestine
George Bartenieff - Chef Max Bugnard
Vanessa Ferlito - Cassie
Casey Wilson - Regina
Jillian Bach - Annabelle
Andrew Garman - John O'Brien
Michael Brian Dunn - Ivan Cousins
Remak Ramsay - John McWilliams
Diane Kagan - Phila McWilliams
Pamela Stewart - Instructor at Le Cordon Bleu (as Pamela Holden Stewart)
Jeff Brooks - Minister
Frances Sternhagen - Irma Rombauer
Brooks Ashmanskas - Mr. Misher
Eric Sheffer Stevens - Tim
Brian Avers - Garth
Kacie Sheik - Annette
Megan Byrne - Woman at the Party
Deborah Rush - Avis De Voto
Helen Coxe - Dorothy De Santillana
Amanda Hesser - Herself
Maryann Urbano - Dinner Guest
Simon Jutras - Dinner Guest
Felicity Jones - Dinner Guest
Meg Kettell - Simca's Concierge
Stephen Bogardus - Scott McLeod
Byron Jennings - Houghton Mifflin Executive
Kelly AuCoin - Houghton Mifflin Executive
Richard Bekins - Houghton Mifflin Executive
Luc Palun - The Chestnut Vendor
Rémy Roubakha - Oyster Man
Marceline Hugot - Madame Bernheim
Erin Dilly - Judith Jones
Robert Emmet Lunney - Bill Koshland
Guiesseppe Jones - Mailman
Jeff Talbott - Interrogator
Johnny Sparks - Interrogator
Simon Feil - GI
Paul Borghese - GI
Mark Gindick - GI
D.L. Shroder - GI
Darin De Paul - GI
Tom Galantich - American Ambassador
Allyn Burrows - Waiter in Paris Café
Cenovia Cummins - Musician at the Wedding
Maxim Moston - Musician at the Wedding
Shmuel Katz - Musician at the Wedding
Paul Ognissanti - Musician at the Wedding
Eric G. Halvorson - Musician at the Wedding
Julia Prud'homme - Bridge Teacher
Dimitri Radochevitch - Fish Monger
Emmanuel Suarez - Baker
Christelle Cornil - Baker's Wife
Françoise Lebrun - Baker's Mother
Teddy Bergman - Cobb Salad Waiter
Jean-Pierre Becker - Fruit Store Owner
Mark Wilkins - Butcher
Jaime D. Hall - Cheese Guy
Francesco David - Butcher
Denise M. Whalen - Dancer
Luis Villabon - Dancer
Valentine Aprile - Dancer
Alexander Brady - Dancer
Roy William Gardner - Exhibit Guest
Dianne Dreyer - American Housewife
Evelyn Taucher - Hat-Making Teacher
Mary Kay Place - Julie's Mom
Ira Berkowitz - Paris Train Porter
Lou D'Amato - French Bureaucrat
Steve Dash - Hotel Guest
Nancy Digonis - Dinner Guest
Corby Kummer - Guest at embassy party
Alyssa Polacsek - French Maid Server
Peter Riga - Wedding Guest
Stacey Scotte - Cooking Show Guest
Harry L. Seddon - New York City Subway Conductor
Ken Sladyk - Paris Train Porter
Joey Sontz - Wedding Dancer
Tom Stratford - Gangster
Paul Thornton - Restaurant patron

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Plot: Starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams and written and directed, in her most accomplished work to date, by Nora Ephron, this film adroitly combines two separate stories told by two different books (the characters never meet) that are linked not only by subject but also by theme. The first is Julia Child's, "My Life in France," a memoir by the celebrated cook, teacher and writer whose "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and accompanying "The French Chef" television show radically changed the American culinary landscape.

The second memoir, "Julie & Julia," follows writer Julie Powell as she works her way through a self-imposed quest: cooking all 524 recipes in Child's book, all specifically formulated for "the servantless American cook," in the space of one 365-day year.

These two books are linked not only by Powell's decision, or even by the authors' shared zeal for butter, but also by a similarity in personality and situation. Both women are unstoppable forces searching for something worth their involvement, and both find that cooking completes them, makes them feel alive in ways wonderful and unforeseen.

It's also worth noting that these two stories are tales, so to speak, of sisters doing it for themselves. Though both women have loyal and encouraging husbands (played by fine actors Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina) who are crucial to their success, this is the rare Hollywood film where it's the men who are the support team, not the women.

Goofs:

• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When cooking Julia Child's classic boeuf bourguignon Julie uses a Bordeaux or Bordeaux style wine rather than the burgundy or burgundy style wine (Pinot Noir) called for in all beef bourguignon recipes (including Child's).
• Anachronisms: In the final scene, Julia opens a large envelope from her publisher with a copy of her first cookbook inside (published by Knopf, 1961). The envelope is of the Bubble-Wrap variety. Bubble-Wrap itself didn't receive the US Patent (Number 3,142,599) until July 28, 1964. Envelopes of that type started appearing in the late 70's.
• Revealing mistakes: Julia Child's mortar is shown as a white stone or porcelain in construction. The one on display in the Smithsonian's collection is very dark, almost black, stone.
• Anachronisms: The Childs moved to Paris in 1948. There is a scene, fairly early during their stay, at a reception where one can hear a famous Charles Aznavour song in the background. Aznavour was writing for and performing with others then, and only became famous as a solo singer in 1953-54.
• Anachronisms: Throughout the film, Stanley Tucci's glasses can be seen to have a modern anti-reflective coating on them, years before such coatings became available. The tell-tale green sheen on the lenses is particularly visible during the outdoor wedding party.
• Anachronisms: The postal vehicle appearing in front of the Cambridge house, a DJ5, was not used until 1965. The scene in the movie is 1961 or earlier.
• Revealing mistakes: The scene involving Paul Childs photographing a food display in their kitchen, he uses a Rolleiflex camera. While shooting he winds the crank approximately one-and-a-half turns, when loaded with film the transport only requires 2/3 of a turn and stops automatic. So actually he was using an empty camera.
• Anachronisms: When Stanley Tucci is being questioned in Washington there is a pack of Lucky Strike in a green pack. Famously "Lucky Strike green went to war" because the ink contained chromium, a strategic material. Lucky Strike green never came back and the replacement design by Raymond Lowey in white which was introduced early in the war is still in use today and was in the 50s.
• Boom mic visible: When Julia is at lunch with her co-authors and shows them a new recipe, the boom mic is visible when Julia is talking.
• Anachronisms: In the scene where Julia receives a letter about publishing her first book in 1961 (or earlier). The letter carrier bears a blue and red patch with a horse and rider facing left. These patches did not come into service until 1965. The appropriate patch should be a maroon patch with the horse and rider facing the right (backwards) when warn on the left shoulder.
• Anachronisms: The movie opens in 1949 in Paris. In several establishing shots, including the Ile de la Cite and Notre Dame Cathedral, all the buildings appear to be a light tan sandstone color. Until the cleaning projects by culture minister Andre Malreaux in the late 1960s, all the famous buildings in Paris were quite black from centuries of pollution.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Julia is learning basic tasks with the other ladies at cooking school, during the shot one can see the checkered platform under Julia's feet to make her appear taller.

Trivia:

• Because of Meryl Streep's height (5'6") several camera/set/costume tricks had to be employed to mimic Julia Child's height (6'2"). Countertops were lowered, Streep wore extra high heels, and forced perspective camera angles were used.
• Eric Powell's quote ("I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by") was originally made by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Eric explains this himself, immediately after delivering the line.
• Both the Paris and Boston train terminal shots were done in the beautifully restored New Jersey Transit Hoboken Train Terminal waiting room.
• The first major motion picture based on a blog.

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Taglines: Life is not measured in minutes, but in moments

Writing by: Eric Roth - (screenplay and screen story) and
Robin Swicord - (screen story)

Produced by: Ceán Chaffin - producer
Jim Davidson - associate producer
Kathleen Kennedy - producer
Frank Marshall - producer
Marykay Powell - associate producer

Cast:Brad Pitt- Benjamin Button
Cate Blanchett - Daisy
Julia Ormond - Caroline
Faune A. Chambers- Dorothy Baker

Elias Koteas- Monsieur Gateau
Donna DuPlantier- Blanche Devereux
Jacob Tolano- Martin Gateau (as Jacob Wood)

Ed Metzger- Teddy Roosevelt
Jason Flemyng- Thomas Button
Danny Vinson- Priest Giving Last Rites
David Jensen- Doctor at Benjamin's Birth

Joeanna Sayler- Caroline Button

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Plot: On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams nee Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being born an old man who was diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read, especially as it relates to the time past this reconnection between Benjamin and Daisy, when Daisy gets older and Benjamin grows younger into his childhood years.

Goofs: We know about 26 goofs. Here some of them:

• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene when Benjamin meets his daughter you can see a crew member's arm keeping the door to the studio closed.

• Factual errors: Early in the film, a mechanical clock is shown being installed at a newly built station in New Orleans. It is later shown being replaced by a digital clock in 2002. However, no such station exists in New Orleans. Union Station was built in 1892 and replaced by Union Passenger Terminal in 1954. (The station, however is Grand Central Terminal in New York City.)

• Continuity: In the hotel lobby, the cigarette pack Daisy put in her pocket was red, but the pack laid on the kitchen table was green.

• Anachronisms: A 1940s radio jingle for Pepsi-Cola can be heard in the background during a daylight porch scene which, based on the film's chronology, should take place in the mid 1920s.

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: As Benjamin watches Daisy in the ballet, he says via narration he'd never seen New York before that. Earlier in the film as he describes his tugboat route, the Statue of Liberty can clearly be seen in the background. However, this indicates he only saw New York in passing.

• Anachronisms: In the scene where Benjamin has been alive for 17 years (making the date 1935) he walks out onto the street pursued by young Daisy. A modern day fire hydrant (with the anti-turn valve on top) can be seen on the street..

• Continuity: When Benjamin first makes tea for the channel swimmer in the glass mugs, the level of liquid fluctuates with each camera shot.

• Anachronisms: In the wharf scene when Benjamin joins the tugboat crew, two bridges are visible in the background. This event is prior to World War II. The first of these bridges was constructed beginning in 1954 and opened in 1958. The second was begun in 1981 and opened in 1988. Neither was there prior to World War II.

• Continuity: When Benjamin first sees Daisy he comments on how blue her eyes are but when they age Daisy the young actress doesn't have blue eyes. They eventually revert to being blue when Cate Blanchett plays Daisy

• Factual errors: Oti is referred to as a pygmy and refers to madjembe (a pygmy word for intestinal worms) which places him as a native of The Congo or Central African Republic. However, he tells Benjamin that his country has been divided by the English and Dutch. The Congo and Central African Republic were only colonized by Belgium while the English and Dutch colonized South Africa.

• Factual errors: Oti is described as a pygmy but the newspaper article refers to him as a Bushman; However, this could just reflect the ignorance of the newspaper editor.

• Anachronisms: The film seems to ignore the prohibition of alcohol from 1920-1932. It was only after prohibition that bourbon was widely available; prior to giving world-wide distribution of rye whiskey to Canada, when whiskey cocktails were made it was normally with the rye whiskey made by US distilleries. The original "Sazerac" was created in New Orleans in 1859 and named by John Stiller who owned the Sazerac Coffee House.

• Anachronisms: In the scene where the analog clock is being taken down and replaced by a digital one, an ad for the U.S. Army National Guard is shown bearing the "Citizen/Soldier" advertisement. However, this ad was introduced in late 2007, which was a couple years after the end of the film, 2005.

• Anachronisms: During the sequence after Benjamin leaves Daisy and their young daughter and travels through India, Benjamin is shown in front of a building which prominently features the phrase "ISO 9002". Based on the time sequence of the movie, this would be in the very late 1970s or perhaps 1980. ISO 9002 is among the internationally-recognized quality management certifications that were first introduced in 1987.

Trivia:

• Filmmakers worked closely with Levi's to obtain clothing items from their Levi's Vintage Clothing collection to authenticate various time periods captured throughout the film.

• Once attached to Tom Cruise as the lead, Steven Spielberg as director in the 1990s.

• Rachel Weisz was considered for the role of Daisy, but turned down because of scheduling conflicts with the different filming dates of the film.

• The second Hollywood feature film, after Denzel Washington's Deja Vu (2006), to film in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

• Principal photography was targeted to last a total of 150 days, excluding the time it would take to create the visual effects for the metamorphosis of Brad Pitt's character to the infant stage.

• Brad Pitt stated it took 5 hours each day to complete the make-up required for the role.

• The musical in which Daisy performs and that Benjamin watches is Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's 'Carousel' The performance is the dream ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille. Daisy was talking to Benjamin about Agnes de Mille in their previous meeting.

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