- Notes provided by Summit Entertainment -
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
When I first read Will Fetter's script, REMEMBER ME (at that time entitled MEMOIRS), three of its many qualities struck a deep chord within me: first of all, it presented New York City at a particularly important time in its history. As a New Yorker, I reveled in the opportunity to accurately depict that time in a city that I know so well and have loved so long. Second, it presented an honest and unvarnished story of young love--a subject I'd been interested in dramatizing for many years. And third, from its opening scene, the script was imbued with a consistent and timely theme, namely: what happens when a bolt-from-the-blue collides with and shatters our well-ordered world? How does one survive these unexpected and inexplicable shocks? And how does it alter us as human beings?
Simply put, while REMEMBER ME was both an intimate story of the love that grows between two young people and a finely drawn portrait of how two different families are affected by their own particular version of a sudden and tragic event, the script ultimately became an exploration of the larger themes of love, loss and the evanescence of life.
--Allen Coulter
SYNOPSIS
In the romantic drama Remember Me, Robert Pattinson plays Tyler, a rebellious young man in New York City who has had a strained relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) ever since tragedy separated their family. Tyler didn't think anyone could possibly understand what he was going through, until the day he met Ally (Emilie de Ravin) through an unusual twist of fate. Love was the last thing on his mind, but as her spirit unexpectedly heals and inspires him, he begins to fall for her. Through their love, he begins to find happiness and meaning in his life. Soon, hidden secrets are revealed and tragedy lingers in the air, as the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart. Set in the summer of 2001, Remember Me is an unforgettable story about the power of love, the strength of family, and the importance of living passionately and treasuring every day of one's life.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
The summer preceding September 11, 2001 is looked upon as a time of innocence for all Americans. It is here where the romantic drama REMEMBER ME lives. Honest and gripping, the film stars Robert Pattinson (Tyler) as a rebellious NYU student wrestling with his beliefs about life and love and the realities and complexities of life itself. This becomes evident in his contentious relationship with his father (Pierce Brosnan) and the unexpected comfort he finds in love interest, Emilie de Ravin, (Ally) a girl he meets through a crass bet he makes with a friend.
Pattinson brings to the role a tough exterior, a sincere emotional depth and a spirit of defiance that comes when a young man tries to move out from under his father's shadow, while at the same time, trying to connect with him.
Soon after the film's opening, it is revealed that both Pattinson's and de Ravin's characters have each experienced a profound loss, a loss which draws them together. As the story develops, we are given a window into their family lives through stellar turns from Brosnan, Lena Olin, Ruby Jerins and Chris Cooper. In each family, it is clear that loss has changed the dynamic- bringing some members closer, while driving others apart. Throughout it all, REMEMBER ME remains an unforgettable story of the power of love, the strength of family, and the importance of treasuring every day of one's life.
Describing the film and its author, director Allen Coulter says: "Will Fetters wrote an incredibly touching script. In its simplest form, REMEMBER ME is the story of two young people, both with a tragedy in their past, and the love that grows between these two. He's from a wealthy family, she's from a blue-collar family and they both share this unspoken and unrecognized bond, which emerges as they get to know each other. It's filled with all kinds of humor and poignancy--such a rich tapestry. It's a very beautiful love story."
"The movie is about love and loss," offers producer Nick Osborne. "It's about trying to figure out one's life and why certain events occur and maybe not coming up with the answers, but approaching an answer."
"I think these are questions we all deal with till the end of our days but especially in our early twenties."
Robert Pattinson describes his character, Tyler Hawkins, who, in the aftermath of losing his brother is "a young guy who's a little bit lost. He has very wealthy parents, but he's very self-righteous, and a bit of a waster. He has an attitude, which a lot of twenty-one year old guys have, where they think they know better than everyone else, but don't feel the need to prove it in any way whatsoever. And he eventually meets this girl who shows him, in a roundabout kind of way, how to mature."
"It's not your typical love story," says Emilie de Ravin (Ally Craig). "These two characters, Tyler and Ally, meet each other in unusual circumstances and they've both had very traumatic pasts. Their relationship is so beautifully formed and so realistic, and the movie revolves around that. It goes deep into how people really feel about each other, and the reality of, not just the fluff of relationships, but really what goes on."
FINDING THE SCRIPT
Osborne recalls, "It was four years ago that Trevor Engelson read the script. Trevor said, 'I think there may be something here. You should read it.' And so I read it. Will Fetters' first draft blew me away. I was utterly moved by it and I called Trevor and I said, 'We have to make this movie.'
"We took it around to a lot of financiers," he says, "we took it to one actor who wanted to do it, who then fell out. And then at some point I got it to Allen Coulter. And Allen and I worked on it with Will for a while. Then Rob came on board, which really helped. It was just before Twilight though, so it was bizarre. He read the script before he really had any, I suppose, 'juice' or real name recognition within the industry."
Producer Nick Osborne describes what REMEMBER ME screenwriter Will Fetters meant to the production, saying, "Without Will, we have nothing. He thought of this story and where it was going, and when Allen, Rob and I read it initially, we all felt that this is something we're going to commit to and we're going to stick with. Because it's not easy getting movies made in Hollywood nowadays, and it's definitely not easy getting dramas made. Dramas are the hardest of all."
"What's interesting is that Will was Tyler when he wrote the script. He was this young, angry guy wanting to make something of himself in the world. But he didn't know how to do it and how to get there. And he had all these deep thoughts and all this kind of angst... I think what comes out of Tyler Hawkins is Will during that time. And that's why it feels authentic.
All the major preliminary aspects of the production fell together based on the strength of the script. Says Osborne, "What Will brought to this is a testament to the writing on this script. Because we got the actors we wanted, we got the director we wanted, and we've built off that. We have a phenomenal film."
Pierce Brosnan says the script provides a great role for an actor to play, and attests that, "Will Fetters created dimensional characters and emotional characters caught in the conflict of life. And when you get to the end of it, it really just punches you in the gut. I'm very grateful for this role. I'm at a place in my career now where I can go off and do anything I want. This is a really, really good role in the hands of a really fine director and an ensemble cast which is so well matched to their parts," he adds.
Allen Coulter reflects, "Everyone who read the script, virtually to a person, was moved by it and drawn to it. It's all because Will Fetters had this inspiration. When I signed on to do it, the only thing that I really wanted was to continue to push for the story to be as truthful as I knew how to make it."
"For instance, as a New Yorker I felt I needed to address the very small things that you have to be New Yorker to know, whether it has to do with character, location or just some kind of atmosphere. This was not something that Will could know because he's not from here," he points out.
A 'LOVE LETTER' TO NEW YORK
Both director Allen Coulter and producer Nick Osborne felt that filming on location in New York City would ensure that the city became a character in itself.
Coulter remarks, "As a person who lives here, I always feel very fortunate to find anything that takes place in New York. It's a running joke with my wife--if it says on the first page, 'We open in New York,' I say, 'I like this script,' even before I've read the rest of it.
"We really looked at the locations where we wanted to shoot. We didn't want to shoot at ridiculously iconic places, but at the same time we wanted to give it a real New York feel," Osborne says.
"Naturally, there are obstacles you have to navigate shooting in the city but it was particularly difficult this time because of the enormous popularity and notoriety of Rob.
"It's been a little crazy with the paparazzi following us around" says Coulter. "Some days we've had thirty paparazzi, some days we've had three, four hundred fans at our locations. But we got it done and I think it looks beautiful. Jonathan Freeman, the D.P., is phenomenal and I think it shows in what we've shot. But it's a New York story and something of a love letter to New York, so it's worth it because the city...there's no replacing it."
CASTING REMEMBER ME: AN 'AMAZING' ENSEMBLE
Allen Coulter and Nick Osborne were both intensely involved in the casting process from the very beginning. Says Coulter, "We had a meeting with Rob Pattinson after Summit expressed some interest. We had lunch with him about a year ago and liked him and were interested in him right away and he was interested too, so that sort of started the process."
One of a director's greatest advantages is a production well cast and it is in Coulter's nature to be involved in the casting process every step of the way. "I can't imagine working on a project where I was not as involved as I can be in the casting," Coulter remarks. "It was just me and Nick Osborne, working with Joanna Colbert and Rich Mento, and then Summit weighed in, but really only on two or three principal roles. We ended up with a cast that both Nick and I were thrilled with. I think you'd be hard pressed to say what kind of cast it is because it's so eclectic. It has elements that you might say were from a big-budget film and elements that you might think of as an independent film," he says.
"It's an interesting amalgam of people, from Pierce Brosnan, who we think of as an actor with a certain kind of reputation, to Chris Cooper, who's from a different kind of world of filmmaking altogether --but both are really fine actors. Add to those two Lena Olin and Rob Pattinson, and that's an eclectic mixture," Coulter notes.
ON ROBERT PATTINSON AS TYLER HAWKINS
Allen Coulter says ``Nick's and my feeling was that Robert could embody a young man who's filled with complexity --his anger, his guilt around the circumstances of the story, his frustration in his relationship with his father and his impotence to change his situation; a young man who feels lost and who ultimately doesn't know who he is."
Pattinson sees his character as a young guy who has some growing up to do, which in some ways mirrored his own real-life experience, saying that "a lot of the reasons I wanted to do the film were because Tyler's at that point where you stop being so, kind of existential, from your adolescence --your early twenties and he's just starting to not feel like an island. He can actually believe that his feelings are honest about things. And he can trust himself a little bit more. He's just maturing and I guess I think that what's happening to me, sort of. Or it was at the time."
Pattinson's character is afflicted with a sort of ennui, in a state of arrested emotional development: "Tyler has all these grudges and grievances which he's held for years and years and they've all just been --not even simmering; they're just old. He and Charles have had the same fights over and over and everyone else sees them as being old. Even Tyler, himself, is sick of having the same rages," he says.
Pierce Brosnan describes Pattinson as "a young man who's just catapulted into the stratosphere of fame and I think what I've seen he's acquitted himself grandly. You know he has a good heart to him. He has good humility and he's courageous to find a piece like this, knowing that he has the Twilight franchise breathing down his throat and you know it will be up to him to go out there and seek these films between these mega movies that he's about to do."
Brosnan continues, "He's got a great look and he's in touch with his own sensing and intuition and instincts. He's very fresh out the gate, which is great because he's malleable, but he's also very selective. I know he's been instrumental in making this movie happen and that's a great thing to see in a young man. You know, there's a protection there for someone like this. You want the best for him. You want to see him fly high and wide."
Emilie de Ravin says that Tyler is a complex character who has a dramatic past, as does her own character and that Robert brought to it "all these intricate details, to the point that I thought, 'How do you come up with these things?' He made the character of Tyler just so unique."
Osborne appreciated Pattinson's unusual loyalty to the project, saying, "Twilight had just come out and often once an actor becomes a known commodity, their agent calls you up and tells you, 'I'm sorry, he can't do it anymore.' But Rob stuck with it. He's been instrumental in helping us get the film made. He really has put himself out on a limb to play this character. I never thought he'd be as good as he was. He's incredibly selfless, incredibly undemanding. But he also thinks a lot. He's very curious. He took hold of that character and ran with it."
Osborne underscores Pattinson's commitment to the role: "When we were working on the script we would get on the phone with Rob and download his ideas. We'd be talking back and forth about what we were doing, so he was very involved in the film and he's been wonderful. He's in nearly every scene, he's been here every day --I know he's had to work his ass off. He came off one movie, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, straight into this one."
ON EMILIE DE RAVIN AS ALLY CRAIG
Osborne says that Tyler's relationship with Ally is different, Ally brings calm to his life: "She's the first person who walks into his life and doesn't buy his act. This is a guy who doesn't have trouble getting young women to fall for him or come home with him and she's the first that challenges him. She strips away the protective layers he's created for himself and gets to who the true 'Tyler' is."
"It's because of her, he adds ``that he is able to start mending these other relationships in his life and hopefully find a way to find some peace in his own life."
"Emilie encapsulates everything which I think Ally is," says Osborne, "a blue-collar girl who's dealt with this terrible tragedy in her life, who's somewhat married to her father in this bizarre way because they've clung to each other. She's never really had fun in her life. She's kept her head down, she's doing well in school, she'll get a good job... But then this guy comes into her life who's a ray of light and shows her a different side to the world and makes her think in a different way and Emilie really helps encapsulate all of those qualities."
The team underwent a long search for the perfect young woman to play the role of Ally Craig. "We really saw something like a hundred-and-eighty young women," Coulter said. "It was a very tricky thing. We wanted to find someone who could be a good match for Rob as far as the romantic entanglement, but we also needed somebody who could be tough and stand up to him.
Ally is the daughter of a cop from Queens and it was important to believe she had some of that Queens attitude.
Coulter explains, "She's going to NYU and already that takes her leaps and bounds beyond where her father was. At the same, her mother was a nurse, so she really comes from a blue-collar background and we needed to believe that. I thought Emilie could seem like she was from such a background.
De Ravin also exuded an enormous amount of charm, which proved irresistible. "We thought, that's good for this character --Tyler's got to notice her, but she also should have this toughness about her. And indeed, when we shot the scenes with Chris Cooper, where Ally stands up to her dad, you saw that she's not easily cowed," he says.
ON PIERCE BROSNAN AS CHARLES HAWKINS
Coulter was drawn to Pierce Brosnan because of the film, "Matador", where Brosnan showed he was willing to take chances as an actor. ``You know, I was thinking about that while I was also trying to imagine someone who could be the father of a guy this good looking, and I thought, 'Well, Pierce Brosnan could do it.' Nick liked the idea and when we pitched it to Summit they were also thrilled with the possibility."
Nick Osborne was looking for the right balance of stoicism, and perhaps some semblance of humanity in Charles Hawkins. As Osborne says, "I just felt that Charles was this powerful man who couldn't show emotion, who can't tell his son he loves him, who's pissed with his son because he couldn't get it together, as far as he's concerned. Pierce was everything I believe the character was from the get go."
For Robert Pattinson's part, he says, "Pierce did a really interesting performance. He's a really, really lovely guy as well. It's so strange having that sort of an iconic person playing your dad. I mean it --it was quite a strange experience."
He describes his characters relationship with his father, Charles, saying, "I think Tyler is very similar to his father and I don't think it's really about missing the love of his father. He wants his father to behave in a certain way, but he doesn't really know what way that is, and so he's never going to be satisfied with it. I think his father is just growing more and more despondent with his behavior towards him because he thinks he's behaving like a perfectly capable father."
He continues, "He's pretty supportive of him and he puts up with a lot of nonsense that Tyler gives him, but I don't think he's missing the love. I think he thinks almost everybody in his life should behave completely differently than the way they do behave, but Tyler never really has an answer to give anyone. He can never actually tell anyone what he wants, because he doesn't know what he wants, so I don't really think it's the lack of love."
ON CHRIS COOPER AS SGT. NEIL CRAIG
According to Nick Osborne, there's not much more you can say about Chris Cooper except that he's a "brilliant, brilliant actor..." "Everything he does in this film," he says, "from the opening scene where he's grieving for his wife... the way he's protective of Ally --he just brings it."
And Allen Coulter concurs, saying, "He's just an amazing actor and it we were lucky to get him. If he hadn't liked the script, it would have been the end of the discussion. Also, if his wife, Marianne, hadn't like the script, that also would have been the end of the discussion, but once he read the script it wasn't a struggle.
Before we started, I called a friend of mine, Billy Ray, who had directed Chris in the film ``Breach, and he just went on about him --'Greatest guy you'll ever work with,' and so on. It turned out to be true. It would be a big arm wrestling contest between Pierce and Chris to see who's the nicer guy, because they're both just the best to work with."
Robert Pattinson says that what's most surprising about Chris is how strong he is, physically:"I mean, it's unbelievable. You really don't see it, even when you're kind of going through the motions. He looked quite a lot smaller than me when I was standing next to him. And then we got to the parts where he's beating me up --he could pretty easily beat me up in reality... Which was a shocking thing!"
ON LENA OLIN AS DIANE HIRSCH
Nick Osborne and Allen Coulter talk about what Lena Olin brings to the role of Tyler's mother.
Osborne remarks, "I really felt for Lena as I was watching the dailies. This is a woman who's still grieving her son who committed suicide six years earlier. Yet as the movie progresses, you feel life start to flow back into her --that there's a certain level of enjoyment of life, so you don't want her to be hurt anymore."
"I had just seen Lena's performance in ``The Reader," he says, "and I was so impressed with her --her humanity and her naturalism and unpretentiousness, that I immediately said, 'She would be a great parent for this beautiful boy... and with Pierce Brosnan and Lena Olin? 'Nobody will question where he came from.' She just leapt out at me."
Pierce Brosnan says, "Lena left an indelible impression on me years ago with The Unbearable Lightness of Being and has done so in every role that she's ever done since. Our characters have very little time together on the screen, but nevertheless, she is a very beautiful seductive player. The opening sequence with the family, when they're all introduced in this ice cream parlor after the memorial service, just blew me away. Blew me away. Just the life, the emotion that she brought to it. The simplicity of playing and her own beauty."
Or as Emilie de Ravin puts it, " When you have families in films, sometimes there's this disconnect. You just don't believe it. But Lena brought such a reality to the family element, playing Tyler's mom."
ON RUBY JERINS AS CAROLINE HAWKINS
Pierce Brosnan has called her "a button of a beauty," and Nick Osborne too was wowed by Ruby Jerins' talents. He says, "She's amazing: you truly think that she and Rob are brother and sister in this film. He just fell in love with her on the set and he was just amazed at how much she could give, how she could improvise...
"I think she's what makes Tyler a better person," he continues, "because he's so wound up in his own neuroses and Caroline is the one person who Tyler is totally and utterly devoted to, in a kind of selfless way."
Robert Pattinson's takeaway in working with Ruby was that, "Ruby has something about her which is really easy to play off. It's quite nice being in a scene where you can just watch someone and be completely unaware that you're in a scene," he says.
ON TATE ELLINGTON AS AIDAN HALL
Tate Ellington provides some comic relief in contrast to Robert Pattinson's character, Tyler Hawkins.
Says Coulter, "Tate was a little bit of a leap of faith because he's not quite what we pictured --neither myself nor Nick nor Summit. But Nick was very encouraging of my instincts to go with Tate. When I was talking to Tate the last time, when we were finally committing to him, I said, 'Don't you know anybody like this?' And he said, 'Yeah, actually, a good friend of mine,' so we talked about that and he described his friend and I said, 'That's the guy.' Well, Tate brought all of that to the role --and he turned out to be an incredible improviser as well. He added lines here and there throughout the script that were really charming and just right."
ENGAGING THE AUDIENCE
One of the filmmaker's primary goals is to engage the viewers to identify with conflict of the characters.
"Everyone has felt loss in their life," says Osborne, " at some point or other. Everyone has felt frustration; most people have had that incredibly passionate first love affair, which I think this invokes. We've all been frustrated by our parents and I think what's wonderful is that, to a certain extent, our characters work out those issues through the course of the film."
And Allen Coulter agrees, "I think people will relate very much for that reason. And presumably it will help the audience understand these characters, each of whom has something in their past that has caused them great personal and emotional agony. "
Osborne sees an opportunity for the audience to reflect on the big questions in their own lives, after seeing the film: "You go away from it and you think about what's important and the barriers you might have with the certain people and why those barriers are there? Are they there out of genuine reasons or are they there because you're too angry or too bitter or too upset or jealous ... And are those things really important in the end? If you could actually strip those things away, maybe you could rebuild some of the relationships you've lost in your life.."
In this regard, Osborne and Coulter are very much of the same mind. Says Coulter, "I hope they feel it's a very accurate picture of falling in love. I hope that they enjoy the twists and turns and the surprises and that they enjoy the wild ride of the story. And, of course, I hope that they're moved in the end and that they leave the theater filled with questions and thoughts about their own lives."
GETTING THE LOOK DOWN
Director Allen Coulter talks about working with director of photography, Jonathan Freeman, and other department heads and how they came up with the look and color palate of the film.
``I worked very closely with Jonathan Freeman, who shot Hollywoodland and "Rubicon," a pilot I did for AMC. We've worked together numerous times. Jonathan and I are very close friends as well as collaborators, so we talked about it a lot and ultimately came up with the idea that it should just simply feel real, which is kind of strangely bland sounding, but we just didn't want it to look affected.
We didn't want to tweak the color too much, or make it look too mannered or too stylized. ``Hollywoodland was fairly stylized, but that seemed appropriate for that material But we did decide to give the palate a slight patina, to suggest the recent past, which is very subtle. I think one could conceivably watch this movie and presume it's the present because the differences are not vast. It's not like the difference between, say, the fifties and the sixties, where you really get a sudden shift in the culture that's obvious in terms of all the period and the visual detail.
So we decided to play it very simply, visually, and then with Scott Murphy, the production designer, and Susan Lyall, the costume designer, basically what we said was, let's keep everything kind of muted. Let's just give it a slight dusting of the past so it just feels like one step removed, but in ways that I don't think people will really notice. I think it'll just be a subtle, ambient feeling that comes off of the movie.
DIALECT: GETTING IT DOWN
Rob, Emilie and Pierce all have there own indigenous accents in real life, and this is a New York movie, in a New York voice... Was there a worry about making sure everyone could play the New York characters?
Osborne replies, "We never had to worry with Rob. He does an American accent brilliantly."
"But Pierce had never been asked to do one, interestingly," he says, "or as far as we could tell. He decided to go with this Brooklyn accent, a Mike Bloomberg type of thing. A guy who'd grown up in Brooklyn, but had now made a lot of money and it was still there. I think he nailed it."
And Coulter adds, ``I liked the idea that the guy came up from the streets. It made him seem tougher, made him seem like a guy who wouldn't take any shit from anybody and Pierce embraced it. He loved the idea and we had a really good dialect coach with Pierce on that."
"And then, Emilie's accent as well," says Osborne.
"Emilie and I spoke about whether she should have a Queens accent," says Coulter. "But we met a cop from Queens, who was our advisor. He had two daughters who were similar in age to Ally and neither of them had a Queens accent, so we decided, 'you're father still has the Queens accent, but you've sort of left that behind', as people will do."
"Also of course," Coulter recalls, "we had the Queens accent from Chris Cooper, who's really more Midwestern. So, in the end we have this American story played by all kinds of actors from other places. It's just like New York, a real melting pot."
"If you don't have accents." Osborne says, "if you don't have actors that can do it, you're in trouble. But these guys could do it, and we had a great dialogue coach."
ALLEN COULTER'S FAVORITE SCENES
REMEMBER ME offered some unique challenges and unexpected pleasures for the director. Allen Coulter describes a few moments in detail:
There's a very serious physical confrontation between Tyler (Pattinson) and Neil Craig (Cooper) that I enjoyed and they were both really good. There's another very strong scene between Tyler and Charles, a powerfully dramatic confrontation. There's also a scene of Tyler waking up one particular morning--he's in love and he's feeling good about the world --and because for that one day in the year, the sunlight comes in the window, he's making a bird shadow with his hands. I think that's a very haunting image -this young man making bird shadows, because, for one moment he's regained his innocence,
Any scene with Ruby Jerins (Caroline). I had never worked with a young girl like Ruby before, and so I have to say that anything we did with Ruby, for all of us, the actors too, was a real delight. For that matter, the same was true for Emilie de Ravin. But I liked all the scenes with Lena as well, so it's hard to pick one.
There's a really arresting scene, I should say, on the subway platform that happens at the beginning of the movie and we had to coordinate the trains coming in and out and we had Joe Reidy, the assistant director, who was masterful or we would not have finished, there is no question about it.
Literally, the first shot of the movie, we got in one take and it had to do with a train coming in at just the right moment and I remember the camera started out of focus and we wanted to slowly rack focus on a particular image just as the train passed through and I remember praying, because we could see the end of the train and we could see the camera focusing and focusing and we saw the end of the train getting closer and we're like, ``Please get to the focus, get to the focus, and just at the moment when it needed to, it found focus and the train roared through the station and we had the image we wanted.
But I remember Jonathan and I were both thinking, 'Oh, God,' because we only had one take. It was not even our train, we weren't controlling it, it was just an express train that happened to be going through and we saw it coming and we said, 'Let's get this shot!' Needless to say, that night was really hair-raising.
ALLEN ON NICK
On Coulter's experience in working with Nick, he says:
``Well, it's just been the most difficult, difficult situation. No (Laughs), Nick has been great from the beginning. I mean he's really the most even-tempered guy. There are times when you're in the early stages of these things, before they're a reality, when you start thinking, 'Well, is this the right film for me to do?' You begin to fill yourself with doubt because you're questioning everything. On this project I had a few of them and Nick was cool as can be.
``There was just this very simpatico feel and I really attribute that, in large measure, to Nick because he put the players together.
Robert Pattinson says that, "the best thing about Nick is that he's so very concerned not to look like the cliché of a producer, which is great. He's always apologizing whenever he asks us for a time estimate or something. 'I hate to do this, I hate it, I don't want to do this at all, but, can you just tell me how long? Twenty minutes. Like, twenty minutes, great --that's amazing.' which is surprising in a producer."
NICK ON ALLEN
``Well, I've always loved ``Hollywoodland, I thought it was a fantastic film and I sent the script to his agent. It's the usual thing you do in Hollywood. Typically, you send it to their agents and you never hear back. His agent read the script first and gave it to Allen and said he loved it and Allen reads the first scene and it says, ``Alleyway --Exterior Alleyway. That's what it was to begin with and Allen was like, ``I'm not going to read this script, this is bullshit, there's no alleyways in New York.
``But he kept on reading and he loved it and he and I worked the script after that with Will for a couple of years. We nearly got it financed a year earlier. It didn't quite happen, but he stuck with it and he has brought a level of honesty and realism to this film which we wouldn't have had with many other directors.
``He knows New York, he is a New Yorker. He's brilliant with the actors on set, he's a very considerate guy, he runs a wonderful set where everyone feels welcome and everyone feels appreciated. He and I believe in the same movie, we want to tell the same story and he's just a delight to work with.
``I have a desire to make good projects, of course and I think more and more, as I've been in the business, I've decided I don't want to do certain things I've done in the past. I really want to do movies about characters now. I really want to do movies that move people, which make people think and which are honest.
Osborne continues, ``I think one of the things which Allen Coulter always came back to on this film, was that he wanted this movie to be as honest as possible, an honest portrayal of young love --not teen love, that's different, but young love, early twenty-something love, your first real love affair. That's what I'm really searching for now, to find those projects which have a very honest, very real sensibility...and this is what REMEMBER ME has.
``The challenge in this movie is to stay honest, to stay real, to not go to the overly melodramatic and to believe in the story which Will Fetters originally created. That's not been too hard because of Allen. That's what Allen has always wanted with this picture, he says.
Robert Pattinson chimes in on Allen, saying, "He's so open to how a scene plays out, which was great for this, because I had no idea what I was doing for the majority of the time. But it's really worked out. Every time I talked to him in pre-production, we were always on the same page. When we got to the shoot, the best thing to do would be just to observe stuff and see really what happens, which is what he did and it worked out beautifully."
Continues Nick, ``Allen and I get on great, which is wonderful. We agree ninety-nine percent of the time, which is really helpful and the studio has been utterly supportive the whole way through the project. You wonder at times whether a studio wants to take you in a different direction, but Summit has always stood behind the movie we wanted to make.
ABOUT THE CAST
ROBERT PATTINSON (Tyler Hawkins) is best known for his portrayal of the vampire Edward Cullen in ``Twilight and ``The Twilight Saga: New Moon. He gained industry notice at 19 years of age when he joined the Harry Potter franchise in Mike Newell's ``Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, playing Cedric Diggory, Hogwarts' official representative in the Triwizard Tournament. Pattinson went on to appear in ``Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, reprising his role in a flashback. He began his professional career with a role in Uli Edel's ``Sword of Xanten, opposite Sam West and Benno Furmann. He also appeared in director Oliver Irving's ``How to Be, winner of the Slamdance Film Festival's Special Honorable Mention for Narrative Feature. Pattinson played the lead role of Salvador Dali in ``Little Ashes, directed by Paul Morrison. His television credits include ``The Haunted Airman for the BBC. As a member of the Barnes Theatre Group, Pattinson played the lead role in Thornton Wilder's ``Our Town. Other stage credits include Cole Porter's ``Anything Goes, ``Tess of the D'Urbevilles and ``Macbeth at the OSO Arts Centre.
EMILIE de RAVIN (Ally Craig) was recently seen in the Michael Mann-directed, ``Public Enemies and will be a featured voice in the animated, ``Guardians of Ga'Hoole for Warner Bros. She recently completed filming, ``Chameleon with Ellen Barkin and Famke Janssen. She returns for the sixth and final season as a series regular on ABC's Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning drama, ``Lost. de Ravin starred in the Fox Searchlight remake of the 1977 Wes Craven cult classic, ``The Hills Have Eyes. Her independent film, ``Brick, which played in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2005, was picked up by Focus Features at the festival, and was released in 2009. Other film credits include, ``The Perfect Game, alongside Clifton Collins, Jr. as well as, ``Ball Don't Lie, and opposite Ludacris.
Also in television, de Ravin recurred on the CBS show, ``The Handler opposite Joe Pantoliano. She first garnered the attention of international audiences with her performances on the popular television series, ``Beastmaster: The Legend Continues for Alliance Atlantis and Tribune Entertainment. Within one month of moving to Los Angeles from her home in South Melbourne, Australia, Emilie landed the series regular role of 'Tess Harding' on The WB's, ``Roswell. Soon after Emilie starred in the
MGM/NBC remake of Stephen King's classic horror film, ``Carrie.
de Ravin has studied ballet since the age of 9. At the age of 15, she was accepted into the prestigious and highly selective Australian Ballet School, and once there she performed in several productions of the Australian Ballet Company as well as Danceworld 301.
PIERCE BROSNAN (Charles Hawkins) is recognized internationally as one of the most dashing and skilled dramatic actors in Hollywood today, Golden Globe Award nominee Pierce Brosnan will be seen in no less than four films this year.
First, Brosnan stars in ``Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief based upon the best-selling novel by Richard Riordan. The film will open in theatres worldwide on February 12. Following, Brosnan stars with Ewan McGregor in Roman Polanski's film ``The Ghost Writer which will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in mid-February and will open domestically on February 19. On March 12 audiences will see Brosnan costar with Robert Pattinson in ``Remember Me and on March 26 he stars with Susan Sarandon in ``The Greatest which premiered to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
Most recently starred opposite Meryl Streep in the smash hit film adaptation of the Broadway hit Mamma Mia!
His film credits include Married Life (2007) in which he starred with Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson and Chris Cooper for director Ira Sachs, the Civil War drama Seraphim Falls (2007) in which he starred opposite Liam Neeson, The Matador (2005) for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture and a nomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role from the Irish Film & Television Academy, John Boorman's critically acclaimed film from the novel by John LeCarre, The Tailor of Panama (2001), Sir Richard Attenborough's Grey Owl (1999), Mars Attacks (1996), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) alongside Barbra Streisand, Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) with Robin Williams and Bruce Beresford's Mr. Johnson (1990).
But he is perhaps best known worldwide as James Bond. Brosnan reinvigorated the popularity of the Bond legacy in box-office blockbusters such as Goldeneye (1995), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The World Is Not Enough (1999) and Die Another Day (2002). Brosnan's first three Bond films earned over a billion dollars at the international box-office and Die Another Day alone garnered almost a half-billion dollars worldwide.
In addition to his four Bond films, three other Brosnan films-The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Dante's Peak (1997) and The Lawnmower Man (1992) combined have earned hundreds of millions of dollars internationally, cementing him as one of the world's most bankable stars.
Brosnan will next star with Greg Kinnear, Ed Harris and Jennifer Garner in Salvation Boulevard. Filming will begin this spring.
In addition to his work in front of the camera, Brosnan has always had an interest in the art of filmmaking. Having achieved international stardom as an actor, Brosnan expanded the range of his film work by launching his own production company, Irish DreamTime in 1996, along with producing partner Beau St. Clair.
Irish DreamTime has produced seven films to date: The Nephew (1998), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Evelyn (2002), Laws of Attraction (2004), The Matador (2005), Shattered (2007) and The Greatest (2010). The company's first studio project, The Thomas Crown Affair, was a critical and box-office success and one of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing romantic thrillers in years. Evelyn, directed by Bruce Beresford, opened to critical acclaim at the Toronto and Chicago Film Festivals and also garnered rave reviews. Laws of Attraction, a romantic comedy, starring Brosnan and Julianne Moore, as dueling divorce attorneys who fall in love. The Matador co-starring Greg Kinnear earned Brosnan critical success and a nomination for a Golden Globe Award, Shattered, starred Brosnan with Maria Bello and Gerard Butler and The Greatest with Susan Sarandon and Carey Mulligan.
Upcoming projects for Irish DreamTime include the second installment of The Thomas Crown Affair.
Some of Brosnan's many accolades include the 2007 Goldene Kamera Award for his environmental work, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chicago Film Festival, the International Star of the Year at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam, an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the Dublin Institute of Technology, an Honorary Doctorate from the University College Cork and an Order of the British Empire bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen.
Brosnan was born in County Meath, Ireland and moved to London at age 11. At 20, he enrolled in drama school and while in London, performed in several West End stage productions including Franco Zeffirelli's Fulimena and Tennessee Williams' The Red Devil Battery Sign at the York Theater Royal. Brosnan relocated to Los Angeles in 1982 and immediately landed the role of private investigator Remington Steele on the popular ABC television series of the same name.
CHRIS COOPER (Sgt. Neil Craig) is one of the most respected character actors of our time, recognized in 2003 with an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of 'John Laroche' in Columbia Pictures ``Adaptation. Cooper was also recognized for his performance in this film by numerous critics associations including the Broadcast Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and Toronto Film Critics Association.
Most recently, Cooper had a part in ``New York, I Love You, a collaboration of vignettes, created by some of today's most imaginative filmmakers including Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Brett Ratner and Allen Hughes. Next, Cooper will star alongside Djimon Hounsou and Helen Mirren in Julie Taymor's version of ``The Tempest.
In 2007 Cooper starred in ``The Kingdom, ``Married Life and ``Breach. In 2006, Cooper also had strong supporting roles in Sony Classics' ``Capote, Universal's ``Jarhead, for director Sam Mendes, and Warner Bros.' ``Syriana, for writer and director Stephen Gaghan. In 2005, Cooper re-teamed with director and friend John Sayles in New Market Film's ``Silver City, a political drama and murder mystery which chronicled the story of a small town in Colorado and the events leading up to a local election.
In 2003, Cooper starred in the Universal Pictures film, ``Seabiscuit based on the bestselling novel. Cooper was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award for his portrayal of ``Seabiscuit's trainer, 'Tom Smith.' In the same year, Cooper was nominated for an Emmy Award for his supporting performance in the HBO film ``My House In Umbria starring Maggie Smith. In 2002, Cooper was seen in ``The Bourne Identity for Universal Pictures in the strong supporting role as the mastermind of the CIA's controversial clandestine operation, Treadstone. In 2004, he appeared in the flashback scenes in the second installment, ``The Bourne Supremacy.
In 2000 Cooper portrayed 'Colonel Burwell' opposite Mel Gibson in Sony Pictures ``The Patriot, a Revolutionary War epic directed by Roland Emmerich. In the same year, Cooper appeared with Jim Carrey in the comedy ``Me, Myself and Irene, for directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly. In 1999 Cooper received a Screen Actor's Guild Award for his supporting performance alongside Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening in Dreamworks' Academy Award winning film, ``American Beauty. In a stunning and dramatic display, Cooper portrayed a stern ex-Marine Colonel who persistently monitored his son's every move.
In 1999 Cooper starred as the father of an amateur rocket enthusiast in the acclaimed coming-of-age drama ``October Sky, which was screened at the 1999 Venice and Deauville Film Festivals with great notice. He had previously earned a Best Actor nomination in 1997 from the Independent Spirit Awards for his work in John Sayles' ``Lone Star. Nearly a decade earlier, Cooper made his feature film debut in Sayles' ``Matewan. Among his film credits are Robert Redford's ``The Horse Whisperer, ``Great Expectations, ``A Time to Kill, ``Money Train, ``This Boy's Life, ``Guilty by Suspicion and ``City of Hope.
LENA OLIN (Diane Hirsch) is an internationally acclaimed actress who was last seen on screen in the 2009 Academy Award nominated Weinstein Company feature release ``The Reader, starring with Ralph Fiennes and Kate Winslet. Olin and husband Lasse Hallström collaborated on the 2000 film ``Chocolat, which received five Academy Award nominations, and on ``Casanova (2005). She then starred opposite Jennifer Garner in her first American television role ever; on the second season of ``Alias, earning an Emmy Award Nomination. Olin returned to ``Alias again in the fourth season, and was invited back for the series' finale episode. Olin garnered international acclaim opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in her first English speaking film, ``The Unbearable Lightness of Being. In 1989, she earned an Academy Award nomination for her work in ``Enemies: A Love Story. Olin then starred in ``Romeo Is Bleeding playing the outrageous hit woman Mona Demarkov. She also starred in Awake opposite Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba, directed by Joby Harold. The former Miss Scandanavia began her career at the National Stage in Stockholm in Ingmar Bergman's production of ``King Lear, in ``A Dream Play, and the title role in Bergman's rendition of Strindberg's Miss Julie among many other theatre appearances. It was then that Ingmar Bergman cast her in ``Face to Face and soon after in the award winning ``Fanny and Alexander. Olin's debut in a lead role on film was in ``After the Rehearsal, also directed by Bergman.
TATE ELLINGTON (Aidan Hall) most recently starred opposite Matthew Broderick and Steven Weber in the Broadway play ``The Philanthropist. He also starred in the ``The Elephant King which was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival, and for which he won Best Actor at the Brooklyn International Film Festival. His theatre credits include ``The Shape of Things for the Rising Sun Performance Company, and the 2004 Fringe Festival winning ``Dog Sees God at the SoHo Playhouse. Other film and TV credits include ABC's ``The Unusuals, Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson's ``Invention of Lying, HBO Film's ``Taking Chance, and the independent film ``Red opposite Brian Cox.
GREGORY JBARA (Les Hirsch) received the 2009 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance as 'Jackie Elliot' in ``Billy Elliot the musical on Broadway. Mr. Jbara also originated the roles of 'André Thibault' in ``Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Drama Desk Nomination), 'Squash Bernstein' in Victor/Victoria and 'Sohovik' in the 1994 revival of ``Damn Yankees! In 1997 Mr. Jbara was the second actor to star as 'Billy Flynn' in the Tony Award winning revival of ``Chicago. LA Theatre credits include: ``Little Fish, ``Precious Sons (Garland Award), ``...House That Jack Built and ``First Lady Suite at The Blank Theatre and ``Felix & Oscar at The Geffen. Film credits include ``Out Of Step, ``Exit Speed, ``Project 96b (48 Hour Film Project-LA Winner '07), ``Enchanted, ``Ira & Abby, ``In & Out, ``Jeffrey, ``A Midsummer Night's Dream, ``The First 20 Million..., ``World Trade Center, ``Out-Of-Towners. TV recurring roles on ``Grounded For Life, ``That's Life, ``The Drew Carey Show, and ``All My Children. TV guest starring roles include "Monk", ``The Unit, ``Twenty Good Years, ``Conviction, ``Friends, ``Century City, ``The West Wing, ``Without A Trace, ``Touched By An Angel, ``Crossing Jordan, ``Providence, ``Ally McBeal, ``Malcolm In The Middle, ``Frasier, ``Family Guy, ``American Dad, ``Rocket Power, ``Come On Over and the webseries ``the Other Hef. Juilliard graduate. Resides in Los Angeles with wife Julie and sons Zachary and Aidan.
KATE BURTON (Janine) recently appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award wining musical ``Spring Awakening. She received raves for the Williamston production of ``The Corn is Green directed by Nicholas Martin, starring opposite her son, Morgan Ritchie, and completed the City Center revival of Applause with Christine Ebersole. Kate was Tony nominated as the title character in The Constant Wife for the Roundabout Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw and appeared in The Water's Edge opposite Tony Goldwyn at the Second Stage Theatre. She appeared as Olga in the critically acclaimed West End production of Three Sisters with Kristen Scott Thomas, directed by Michael Blakemoore. Kate received 2 Tony nominations in 2002 on Broadway for her title role in Hedda Gabler, directed by Nicholas Martin, and for the role of Mrs. Kendall in The Elephant Man, directed by Sean Mathias. Kate has also starred on Broadway in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (also UK/Ireland tour), An American Daughter, Jake's Women, Some Americans Abroad (Drama Desk nomination) and Present Laughter (Theater World Award). She has appeared for thirteen seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her film roles include; ``Max Payne (John Moore), ``What Just Happened (Barry Levinson), ``Celebrity (Woody Allen), ``The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), First Wives' Club (Hugh Wilson), August (Anthony Hopkins), Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter), ``Unfaithful (Adrian Lynne), ``Swimfan (John Polson), ``Stay (Marc Forester), ``Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer), ``Quid Pro Quo (Carlos Brooks), ``The Kings of Appleton (Bobby Moresco) and the indie, ``Consent. Kate recently wrapped the HBO pilot, ``The Washingtonienne, the as yet to be named Dave Hemingson pilot for ABC, and had recurring roles on both ``Grey's Anatomy (2 Emmy Nominations) and ``Rescue Me. Recent television includes guest star roles on, ``Eleventh Hour Justice, ``The West Wing, ``The Practice, ``Law & Order, ``Law & Order: Criminal Intent, ``100 Centre St., and ``Notes For My Daughter (Emmy award). Kate appeared in HBO's, ``Empire Falls, the Lifetime feature, ``Obsessed (John Badham) with Jenna Elfman and ``The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer for ABC.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
ALLEN COULTER, DIRECTOR
Born and raised in Texas, Mr. Coulter started in the film business as a messenger for a small New York production company. While supporting himself doing virtually every job in the motion picture industry, he wrote and directed ``The Hobb Case, a short that served as his entree into full-time directing. The byzantine path of his career eventually lead to "The Sopranos," "Sex & the City," "Six Feet Under" and "Rome." His first feature, ``Hollywoodland, starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane and Ben Affleck, opened in September 2006 to critical acclaim. More recently he has directed the pilots of "Nurse Jackie" starring Edie Falco for Showtime, the FX Network pilot, "Sons of Anarchy" and the upcoming series "Rubicon" for AMC. He also received his fifth Emmy nomination for the pilot of FX Network's "Damages," starring Glenn Close.
WILL FETTERS, WRITER
Will Fetters was studying Political Science and Finance at the University of Delaware in 2003 with every intention of attending law school, when a misunderstanding with local law enforcement dovetailed with an idea for a film. He finished school, started writing and that misunderstanding eventually inspired the narrative foundation for his first original screenplay, Memoirs, which became the film, Remember Me. He has since adapted the Nicholas Sparks novel ``The Lucky One and drafted a remake of ``A Star is Born for Warner Bros. Scott Hicks (Shine) is in line to direct ``The Lucky One, while Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) is in talks to direct ``A Star Is Born. Will is currently adapting Norman Ollestad's survival memoir ``Crazy for the Storm, also for Warner Bros., and he recently signed a deal to develop a TV pilot with Gossip Girl co-creator Stephanie Savage.
Will currently has no plans to attend law school.
NICK OSBORNE, PRODUCER
Nick Osborne is a founding partner of Underground Films, a production company based in Los Angeles. Nick was a producer on the 2007 summer comedy, ``License to Wed for Warner Bros., co-produced with Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer and Robert Simonds. Alongside his partner, Trevor Engelson, Nick was an executive producer on Sony's summer comedy, ``Zoom. He has had an executive role in producing a diverse slate of pictures, among them: ``Apt Pupil, ``U-Turn, ``The Thin Red Line, ``and ``Urban Legend. Osborne is a graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California and has a B.A in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. A native of Scotland, he also writes and just completed his second novel.
TREVOR ENGELSON, PRODUCER
Trevor Engelson runs Underground Management, a management company based in Los Angeles. Trevor was a co-producer on ``License to Wed. Alongside his partner, Nick Osborne, he was also an Executive Producer on ``Zoom for Sony and a Co-Executive Producer on ABC Family's Christmas comedy ``Mary Christmas. Engelson grew up in Great Neck, New York and graduated from USC in 1998.
SCOTT P. MURPHY, PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Scott P. Murphy's career as a production designer and art director has spanned nearly 20 years. As a Production Designer, Murphy has designed pilots for critically acclaimed television series such as ``The Sarah Connor Chronicles and ``The Sons of Anarchy. He was the series Production Designer of the American Film Institute Award winning series ``Life, as well as other popular network series including ``Surface and ``Knights of Prosperity. His art direction and set design work can be seen in blockbuster feature films including ``Spiderman, ``Spiderman II, ``The Sixth Sense, ``Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ``Men In Black, ``Lolita, and ``Dead Presidents. Murphy's work on ``The Sopranos earned him three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Art Direction. Architecturally trained, Murphy began his career working for noted architects Frank O. Gehry and Richard Meier in Los Angeles before shifted his focus to set design and art direction. Murphy attended the graduate program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) and undergraduate program at Iowa State University.
SUSAN LYALL, COSTUME DESIGNER
Susan Lyall most recently designed the critically acclaimed "Rachel Getting Married" for director Jonathan Demme, an HBO pilot, "The Washingtonienne", produced by Sarah Jessica Parker and the Killer Films picture, ``Motherhood, starring Uma Thurman and directed by Katherine Dieckmann opening in October. Other recent credits include the romantic comedy "Music & Lyrics" starring Hugh Grant, the inspiring true-life football drama ``Invincible, starring Mark Wahlberg, and the thriller ``Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster. Lyall had earlier collaborated with Foster on the films ``Little Man Tate and ``Home for the Holidays, which Foster directed and starred in, and Michael Apted's ``Nell, starring Foster in the title role. For Apted, Lyall also designed the costumes for ``Extreme Measures, ``Blink and ``Thunderheart. Other film credits include David Mamet's ``State and Main and ``The Spanish Prisoner; Mark Pellington's ``The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere; Edward Burns' ``She's the One; Barry Sonnenfeld's ``For Love or Money; and Steven Soderbergh's ``King of the Hill. She is incredibly thrilled to have finally worked with Allen Coulter.
JONATHAN FREEMAN, DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Jonathan Freeman and Allen Coulter have collaborated on a number of projects over the years, including Hollywoodland and the pilots of ``Rubicon, ``Sons of Anarchy and
``Damages. Jonathan was Director of Photography on Fifty Dead Men Walking, The Rebound, The Edge of Love and The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio.
He won an ASC award for Homeland Security in 2005 and has been nominated three other times for ASC Awards.
He was born in Toronto, and currently lives in New York City.
Directed byALLEN COULTER
Written byWILL FETTERS
Produced byNICHOLAS OSBORNETREVOR ENGELSON
Executive ProducersCAROL CUDDYROBERT PATTINSON
Director of PhotographyJONATHAN FREEMAN
Production DesignerSCOTT P. MURPHY
Edited byANDREW MONDSHEIN, A.C.E.
Costume DesignerSUSAN LYALL
Music ByMARCELO ZARVOS
Music SupervisorALEXANDRA PATSAVAS
Casting byJOANNA COLBERT AND RICHARD MENTO
ROBERT PATTINSONEMILIE DE RAVINCHRIS COOPERLENA OLINTATE ELLINGTON
RUBY JERINS
and PIERCE BROSNAN
KATE BURTONGREGORY JBARAAN UNDERGROUND FILMS PRODUCTIONSUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS
``REMEMBER ME
Unit Production Manager Carol Cuddy
First Assistant Director Joseph Reidy
Second Assistant Director John Silvestri
Cast(In order of appearance)
Alyssa Craig (11 yrs) Muggers
Police Chief Sgt. Neil Craig Tyler Hawkins Toothbrush Girl Diane Hirsch Les Hirsch Caroline Hawkins Charles Hawkins Diner Waitress Aidan Hall NYU Professor Ally Craig Uptight Mommy Megan Miami Blonde Miami Brunette Musicians
Queens Guys
Leo Escorting Officer Receptionist Janine
Caitlyn Paige Rund Moises Acevedo Noel Rodriguez Kevin McCarthy Chris Cooper Robert Pattinson Athena Currey Lena Olin Gregory Jbara Ruby Jerins Pierce Brosnan Angela Pietropinto Tate Ellington David Deblinger Emilie de Ravin Lee Brock Meghan Markle Emily Wickersham Kelli Barrett Jon Trotsky Drew Leary Bob Colletti Scott Burik William Cote Kruschwitz Doug Crosby Chris McKinney Scott Nicholson Tricia Paoluccio Kate Burton
Taunting Class Mates
Aidan's Professor Indian Restaurant Waiter Carny Game Attendant Cab Driver Rookie Cop Oak Room Waiter Business Associate Birthday Girl's Mom Birthday Girl Caroline's Teacher Bailiff Michael Hawkins
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Stunt Coordinators
Stunt Performers
Helicopter Pilot Stand-Ins
Production Supervisor Associate Producer
Camera Operator 1st Assistant Camera 2nd Assistant Camera Camera Loader Digital Imaging Technician Still Photographer
Script Supervisor
Sound Mixer Boom Operator Sound Utility
Post Production Supervisor Associate Editor Apprentice Editor
Gaffer Best Boy Electricians
Peyton Roi List Morgan Turner Olga Merediz Ebrahim Abe Jaffer David Anzuelo Sandor Tecsy Justin Grace Michael Hobbs David Wilson Barnes Jane Harnick Emily Godshall Andrea Navedo Bill Burns Christopher Clawson
George Aguilar Stephen Pope Paul Darnell Samantha McIvor William Richards Kristin Galligan Christopher Clauson Devin Sanchez
Patty Willett Michael Lannan
Eric Moynier Aurelia Winborn John Romer Eve Strickman Abby Levine Myles Aronowitz
Christine Gee
Ken Ishii Anguibe Guindo Joe Origlieri
Susan Lazarus Jordan Lindblad Spencer Mondshein
Michael Delaney Michael Delaney Jr. Joe Ori Kane Delaney
Generator Operator Basecamp Generator Operator Rigger Gaffer Best Boy Rigging Electric Shop Electric
Key Grip Best Boy Grip Dolly Grip Grips
Rigging Grip Best Boy Rigging Grip
Location Manager Assistant Location Manager Location Coordinator Location Scouts
Location Assistants
Unit Production Assistant Parking Coordinator
Property Master Assistant Property Master Props
Set Decorator Assistant Set Decorator Leadperson Foreperson On Set Dresser Set Dresser
Art Director Art Department Coordinator Art Department Production Assistant Researcher
Assistant Costume Designer Costume Supervisor Key Set Costumer
Maggie Delaney Joe Baccari Chris Scarfi Bobby McGavin Michael McDonald Nicholas McGavin Scott Gregoire
Jim Pollard Damien Donohue Casey Jirgal Jim Bokor Demetri Kibrik Chris Donohue Brad Goss Gerard Fiore
Gayle Vangrofsky Justin Kron Elizabeth Garett Steven Weisberg Rob Coleman Jesse Hove Scott Waring Julie Sage Ricky Camilleri Rodney Tait
Joel Barkow Mandie DeMeskey Mark Harrington
Diane Lederman Lisa Nilsson Jim Stern Barbara Kastner Courtney Schmidt Jim Ansboro Keith Kastner Maddy Lederman Katya DeBear Alanna Nevada Levy Eric Hohf
Lauren Buckley
Amy Ritchings Pashelle L. Clayton Deirdra E. Govan-Legrand
Set Costumer Ngina Bowen
Tailor Minerva Diann Savoy
Costume Production Assistant Caitlin Doukas
Makeup Department Head Patricia Regan
Key Makeup Artist Margot Boccia
Makeup Artist Rita Ogden
Hair Department Head Suzy Mazzarese Allison
Key Hair Sherry Heart
Production Accountant Steve Guilbaud
First Assistant Accountant Brennan Shroff
Second Assistant Accountant Jamie Horowitz
Payroll Accountant Anna Bosco
Accounting Clerk Molly McMillen
Production Coordinator Lindsay Feldman
Assistant Production Coordinator Charlie Dibe
Production Secretary Jodi Arneson
Assistant to Mr. Osborne Brandon Dermer
Assistant to Mr. Engelson Katy Cundall
Assistant to Mr. Pattinson Nick Fabiano
Office Production Assistants Ainsley Bartholomew
Matthew Branin
Second Second Assistant Director Matt Lake
DGA Trainee Stephanetta Bingley
Set Production Assistants Catherine Feeny
Erica Fishman
Logan Wolfe Elder
Ramona Adair
Greg Wason
Construction Coordinator Gary Grill
Key Carpenter Lou Miller
Construction Foreperson Greg Criscuolo
Carpenter Bill Gregory
Key Construction Grip Stephen Baker
Construction Grip Foreperson Rolf Bortner
Shop Production Assistant Hannah Grill
Scenic Charge Alex Gorodetsky
Camera Scenic Glen Aldous
Scenics Chris Weiser
Victor Morales
Maria Suter
Charlie Suter
Douglas Anderson
Katherine Rondeau
Scenic Shopperson Shop Scenic Caroline's Artwork Tattoo Artist
Transportation Captain Co-captain
Special Effects Coordinator On Set Special Effects
Casting Assistant NY Casting Assistant
Extras Casting by Extras Casting Associate
Extras Casting Assistant Dialect Coach
Unit Publicist Set Medic Catering Provided by Craft Service
NYPD Technical Adviser Security Service Provided by Head of Security Security
Security Production Assistants
Editorial Production Assistant Post Production Assistants
Post Production Accountant
Post Production Services Provided by
Post Production Sound Services by
Supervising Sound Editor Jordan Lovelace Vincent Perrella Margaret Henry Joseph Aloi
Eddie Iacobelli Jim Popper
Steve Kirshoff Bobby Scupp
Christine Colvin Bobby Scupp
Grant Wilfley Casting
J. Sabel
Erin Hughes Diego Daniel Pardo
Brooke Ensign Bruce Bell Gormet to U Wilson Rivas
Kevin McCarthy Screen International Security Services Mike Costello Paul Zoccolillo Frank Piccullio Dean McManus Jack Carroll Daryl Sledge Luke Pendley Chad Hursa
Victoria Stewart Kate Gimbel Goldman Ginger Marley
Liz Modena Trevanna Post, Inc.
Orbit Digital
Sound One Corp.
Dave Paterson
Re-Recording Mixers
Supervising Dialogue/ ADR Editor Additional Dialogue Editor Sound Effects Editor Additional Effects Editor Foley Editor First Assistant Sound Editor
Foley Mixer Foley Walker
ADR Mixers
ADR Recorders
Sound Re-Recorded at Sound Re-Recordist Dolby Sound Consultant
ADR Voice Casting
Background Voices Greg Baglia
Reilly Steele Dave Paterson
Nicholas Renbeck Daniel Korintus Mary Ellen Porto Damian Volpe Rachel Chancey Igor Nikoli
Ryan Collison Jay Peck
David Boulton, Sound One Mark Appleby, Goldcrest Post Tim West, POP Sound Howard London, Sony Brian Gallager Phil Young Brett Rothfeld Sound One Corp. Dror Gescheit James Nichols
Sondra James
McCaleb Burnett Eileen Galindo Kathy Gerber Jason Harris Vanessa Lemonides Mimi Lieber Christie Moreau Taylor Noto Dennis Pressey Peter Pamela Rose Seth Barrish Bridget Megan Clark Mehan Gallagher Mitch Greenberg Sondra James Selenis Leyva Zoe Lister-Jones Lindsey Noto Sean Oliver Gina Rose Reyna Shaskan
Bill Timoney
Digital Visual Effects by Mr. X Inc.
Visual Effects Supervisor Aaron Weintraub
Visual Effects Producer Sarah McMurdo
Supervising VFX Producer Dennis Berardi
Texture and Lighting Artists Mai-Ling Lee
Ayo Burgess
Digital Compositors Andy Chan
Mandy Au
Mike Kwan
Jerry Seguin
Tamara Stone
3D Artists Dan Carnegie
Matt Ralph
Maxime Ducharme
Digital Matte Painting Tracey McLean
Shader Developer Jim Goodman
Visual Effects Coordinators Sarah Barber
Eric Robinson
Operations Wilson Cameron
Ben Mossman
Diana Pazzano
Linda Rose
Additional Visual Effects by Brainstorm Digital
Visual Effects Supervisor Glenn Allen
Digital Compositors J. John Corbett
Jun Zhang
Chris Wesselman
John Mangia
Senior Matte Artist Matthew Conner
Digital Intermediate by Deluxe New York
Digital Intermediate Colorist Joseph Gawler
Digital Intermediate Manager Marcus Alexander
Digital Intermediate Coordinator Darrell R. Smith
Digital Intermediate Assistants Jonathan Sanden
Jack Lewars
Digital Conform and Opticals Chris Mackenzie
Dailies Colorist Anthony Raffaele
Video Mastering John Potter
Engineering Tim Mullen
Film Timer Cathy Rait
Music Editor E. Gedney Webb
Score Produced by Marcelo Zarvos
Orchestrators Mark Bachle
Sonny Kompanek
Philip Rothman
Assistant to Mr. Zavos Daniel Coe
Music Contractors Antoine Silverman
Paul Talkington
Music Preparation Dominik Mack
Music Recorded and Mixed by Richard King
Gary Chester
String Orchestra Recorded by Peter Fox
Music Studio Assitants Fernancy Lodeira
Hyomin Kang
Assitant Music Editor Tim Starnes
Tragedia De SaguayoWritten by Xocoyotzin HerreraPerformed by Banda SinaloenseAzpericueta Featuring Xocoyotzin HerreraCourtesy of LMS Records
One NationWritten by Geoff Siegel and Nik FrostPerformed by StabbedCourtesy of Fundamental Music
UselessWritten by Donnie Owens and James GrayPerformed by Donnie OwnsCourtesy of John P. Dixon for RamcoRecords and Fervor Records
Have MercyWritten by Sherry FraserPerformed by Two Ton BoaCourtesy of Kill Rock StarsBy arrangement with Terrorbird Media
SquaresWritten by Stephen Mason, Richard Greentree,John Maclean, Robin Jones, David Mckay,Sylver Van Holmes and Raymond VincentPerformed by The Beta BandCourtesy of EMI Records Ltd./ AstralwerksUnder license from Universal Music EnterprisesCertain portions of ``DaydreamPerformed by Gunter Kallmann ChorusCourtesy of Universal Music GmbHUnder License from Universal MusicEnterprises
Why Did Ever We MeetWritten by Daniel Didier, Davey von Bohlen,Jason Gnewikow and Scott SchoenbeckPerformed by The Promise RingCourtesy of Jade Tree
AndvariWritten by jon Birgisson, Orri Dyrason, GeorgHolm and Kjartan SveinssonPerformed by Sigur RósCourtesy of Geffen RecordsUnder license from Universal Music Enterprises
SamboleroWritten and performed by Luiz BonfráCourtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The Sun Keeps Shining On MeWritten by Dave Newton, Emily Cook andDavid KlotzPerformed by FondaCourtesy of Parasol RecordsBy arrangement with Sugaroo!
Songs
Nuestra CulpaWritten by Neiver A. Alverez, Daniel Indart,Danny Osuna and Jesus A. Perez-AvarezPerformed by Proyecto TQCourtesy of LMS Records
Play OnWritten by Brad Xavier, Dustin Miller, StevenThronson, Edwin Adre Williams and KeithLamar WilliamsPerformed by Kottonmouth KingsCourtesy of Capitol RecordsUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
KandlesWritten by Jeff Dimpsey and Jeff GarberPerformed by National SkylineCourtesy of Parasol RecordsBy arrangement with Sugaroo!
Sanson Ki Mala Peh SimroonWritten by Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn / Farukh AliKhanCourtesy of Real World / Oriental Star Agencies
GoneWritten by Stephen Mason, Richard Greentree,John Maclean and Robin JonesPerformed by The Beta BandCourtesy of EMI Records Ltd. / AstralwerksUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
You Can See MeWritten by Daniel Goffey, Gareth Coombes,Michael Quinn and Robery CoombesPerformed by SupergrassCourtesy of EMI Records Ltd.Under license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
ParasolWritten by Archer Prewitt, John McEntire, SamPrekop and Eric ClaridgePerformed by The Sea and CakeCourtesy of Thrill Jockey RecordsBy arrangement with Bank Robber Music
Soul BrotherWritten by Geoffrey Wilkinson, Jim Hawkins,Bradley Armstead and Lonnie SmithPerformed by US3Courtesy of Blue Note RecordsUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
Until You Can'tWritten by Alana Da Fonseca, Vincent Alfieri andAli Theodore
Performed by Alana DCourtesy of DeeTown Entertainment
Alien LoverWritten by Jill CunniffPerformed by Luscious JacksonCourtesy of Captiol RecordsUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
DamagedWritten by Nik Frost, Greg Coates and BrianMurphyPerformed by Bangkok FiveCourtesy of Fundamental Music
Soft ShoulderWritten and performed by Ani DiFrancoCourtesy of Righteous Babe RecordsBy arrangement with Sugaroo!
Hanging With The Wrong CrowdWritten and performed by Ed HarcourtCourtesy of Heavenly RecordsUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
TornadoWritten by Douglas Erickson, Shirley Manson,Steve Marker and Bryan VigPerformed by GarbageCourtesy of Almo SoundsBy arrangement with Natural Energy Lab
Sea of TeethWritten LinkousPerformed by SparklehorseCourtesy of Capitol RecordUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
Sentimental LadyWritten by Robert WelchPerformed by Bob WelchCourtesy of Capitol RecordUnder license from EMI Film & TelevisionMusic
Open WideWritten by Greg Allen and Vern RumseyPerformed by Long Hind LegsCourtesy of Kill Rock StarsBy arrangement with Terrorbird Media
``Goodbye Sex from the Motion Picture``American Pie 2Composed by David LawrenceCourtesy of Universal Studios
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