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Author Lorenzo Carcaterra has claimed that his book, on which the movie is based, is a true story of [...]	D
Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro also appeared in Sesso & potere (1997), Mi presenti i tuoi? (2004) [...]	D
Roger Ebert criticized the movie as homophobic. In interesting contrast, many members of the gay com [...]	D
The truthfulness and factual accuracy of the film - and the book upon which it is based - were chall [...]	D
Jay-Z sampled the line, "You boys are soft like bread" for his song "Streets Is Watching" from his 1 [...]	D
Film debut of Billy Crudup (Tommy).	D
The bus carrying Father Bobby when he visits the boys at the Wilkinson Home is a Mack Model MV620. T [...]	D
The large gray book behind Shakes' right shoulder in Father Bobby's apartment is The Gulag Archipela [...]	D
In his review Roger Ebert wrote, "If you doubt that the movie depends on homophobia to justify its m [...]	D
Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro reunited with writer and director Barry Levinson in Sesso & potere [...]	D
Brad Pitt is not fond of his performance on the movie: "I think I was a disservice to it. This is th [...]	D
Kevin Bacon required seven squibs for his death scene (gunpowder blasts to spurt out blood). He wore [...]	D
Mancho says to Shakes that Father Bobby has done "a Claude Rains." This is a reference to Claude Rai [...]	D
Despite the tense relationship on-screen, Kevin Bacon recalled it was an absolute blast working with [...]	D
Robert De Niro previously played priests in L'assoluzione (1981), Non siamo angeli (1989) and in Mis [...]	D
A line in the opening narration, "This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood" [...]	D
At one time, Sandra Bullock was attached to play Carol.	D
Barry Levinson: [Ralph Tabakin] (Warden) has appeared in every Levinson picture from A cena con gli [...]	D
The film and the novel on which it was based returned to the news following the controversy regardin [...]	D
Joe Perrino, Brad Renfro,Geoffrey Wigdor and Jonathan Tucker were all born in 1982. (Edited Rigdor b [...]	D
The film's release reignited the debate over the accuracy of the book.	D
This is the second film Dustin Hoffman has starred in which features a character named Rizzo. In thi [...]	D
In the end of the movie, they sing the Four Seasons song "Walk Like a Man". When Shakes is in Carol' [...]	D
This marks the first time that writer and director Barry Levinson and composer John Williams worked [...]	D
Devon Sawa was offered the role of Young Michael Sullivan, but passed because he was in production w [...]	D
At the end of the movie, Carol has a son in a photograph. The son is the same actor who played young [...]	D
Billy Crudup and John Slattery appeared in Il caso Spotlight (2015), which also revolves on similar [...]	D
Robert De Niro and Bruno Kirby appeared in Il padrino - Parte II (1974).	D
One typewritten page in the file given to the Internal Affairs policeman states: "Styler works as a [...]	D
According to Brad Renfro in a 1997 interview for Seventeen, the cafeteria scene where the character [...]	D
Epilogue: "The New York State Division of Youth Corrections states that the conditions depicted in t [...]	D
In the VHS release, a disclaimer at the end states that no court records were found of the alleged m [...]	D
One of three films that writer and director Barry Levinson did with Bruno Kirby, the others being Go [...]	D
Willem Dafoe, Ray Liotta, Gary Sinise, John Travolta, and J.T. Walsh were all considered for the rol [...]	D
"You would hope that this doesn't overwhelm what we've done," Barry Levinson, who also wrote the scr [...]	D
Robert De Niro and Billy Crudup would work together again 10 years later in The Good Shepherd (2006) [...]	D
Jonathan Tucker will go on to work with Kevin Bacon again in A City On A Hill, for Showtime in 2019.	D
The code name "Edmund" that is used in the paper to notify Michael that he needed to contact Shakes [...]	D
During filming, Brad Renfro and Joe Perrino wore colored contact lenses so they would have the same [...]	D
Strong challenges to the book's story were raised by the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church and School on [...]	D
The movie was filmed at Fairfield Hills, a former psychiatric hospital in Newtown, Connecticut, righ [...]	D
The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Brad Pitt; and one Os [...]	D
Kevin Bacon never met Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman during the production, because of the logist [...]	D
Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro appeared in Telling Lies in America (1997).	D
In the book, after Father Bobby testifies and lies on the stand, he is given a standing ovation when [...]	D
Terry Kinney also worked in a prison on the HBO series Oz (1997). That character worked hard to refo [...]	D

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When Michael talks to Carol on the subway, Michael strokes Carol's hair in some shots, but not in ot [...]	D
During the lunchroom scene at the Home for Boys, Nokes breaks up the fight, and the boys stand in fr [...]	D
The narrator reports the summer of 1968 as "the Summer of Love." This was actually a hippie-referenc [...]	D
Pen disappears from someone's pocket during the courtroom scene.	D
When the boys are lying on the roof right before they steal the hot dog cart, the One Penn Plaza sky [...]	D
Brad Renfro plays "Michael" as a teenager. He had brown eyes. As an adult, he is played by Brad Pitt [...]	D
When King Benny is speaking with Little Caesar, he incorrectly says "My clear is debt" instead of "M [...]	D
The Yahoo bottles in the film are the modern (1996) design and not the proper 1981 design.	D
The Knicks game on at the 1981 bar is a more modern mid 1990's game and not the accurate 1981 game.	D
When Father Bobby visits young Shakes at Wilkinson.	D
When the boys are in a shop after losing the stickball game, the song "Alone Again Or" by Love is pl [...]	D
When the adult Shakes and Mike meet in Queens, a train of "Redbird" subway pass above them on the "7 [...]	D
No judge would allow a prosecutor to call a "character witness" for a murder victim, a man whose cha [...]	D
During the trial, the outside scenes are shot at the Manhattan Municipal Building, which house city [...]	D
Shakes said John was found dead in a hallway with a bottle of gin next to him which killed him, but [...]	D
Michael's cigarette swaps sides when hugging at the end.	D
When Shakes meets adult Carol at her apartment and they go inside, Carol unlaces and takes off her a [...]	D
At the end of the movie, the outside of the courthouse says "United States Courthouse," making it a [...]	D
When the boys are being driven to the detention center, the road has double yellow road stripes and [...]	D
When the hot dog wagon starts to fall down the subway, the umbrella stays on the stairs. In the next [...]	D
The R33/R36 cars on the IRT #7 line that approach 45 Road station in Long Island City, Queens were n [...]	D
Defense Attorney Danny Snyder should have moved for a "motion for judgment of acquittal" after the s [...]	D
The Michelob box at the bar is the 1996 version and not the proper 1981 logo.	D
Father Bobby is seen smoking when visiting the boys at the prison. Catholic priests are forbidden to [...]	D
Shakes says he will meet Mike at 45th Street in Queens. He gets off the IRT subway at 45th Road in L [...]	D
John offers Tommy a cigarette from a Marlboro pack in the bar. Tommy clearly puts a Camel cigarette [...]	D
For the alibi to be believable, the priest would have had to have already said before the trial that [...]	D
The priest says that it took Michelangelo 9 years to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling. It took 4 yea [...]	D
Jerry the bartender would have been called as a witness at the trial.	D
A train of R40M/R42 subway cars travels on the Williamsburg Bridge, in their post-1988 rebuild confi [...]	D
When John Riley tells the bar tender to give the two men drinks at the end of the bar, the camera an [...]	D
Near the end of the film, when Father Bobby hands the ticket stubs to Michael in court, Michael reac [...]	D
When John and Tommy enter McHale's as adults, an elderly couple are entering the dining room portion [...]	D
In the mid 1960s, New York streetlight bulbs would have been mercury, not yellow sodium. Many street [...]	D
When John and Tommy kill Sean Nokes in the dining room of McHale's, they use semi-automatic hand gun [...]	D
When the young boys are looking into the Ice Capades' dressing room, the windows are covered by a wi [...]	D
When the boys sit around a table and decide to keep quiet after Wilkinson, the camera's shadow is vi [...]	D
The amount of blood on Michael's face during the scene in the Wilkinson lunchroom.	D
The DA would have easily been identified as one of the imprisoned boys and a friend of the accused.	D
In the streets of New York in 1981, many extras are wearing current (mid 90's) Knicks jerseys and ja [...]	D
After the trial, Mike enters the subway at the BMT Chambers Street station (under the Municipal Buil [...]	D
The bottles of Budweiser at Wilkinson's and at the 1981 bars are of the modern (1996) version and no [...]	D
Shakes' eye color changes from brown in the late 1960s to blue in 1981.	D

Frase

Father Bobby: I'm telling you as a witness... and [...]	D
Lorenzo: Do you love him? Carol: I don't think ab [...]	D
Lorenzo: [after handing Detective Davenport survei [...]	D
Lorenzo: [narrating] Hell's Kitchen was a place of [...]	D
Rizzo: Why is Saturday any different? Young Micha [...]	D
Shakes' Father: [to Shakes' mother] I buried one f [...]	D
Sean Nokes: [to Inmates after breaking up fight] Y [...]	D
Danny Snyder: I can't do this now. You gotta know [...]	D
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: I could run... [...]	D
Father Bobby: I stopped off at Attica today on my [...]	D
Fred Carlson: [about The Count of Monte Cristo] We [...]	D
[voice over] Lorenzo: Most priests like to preach [...]	D
Lorenzo: In truth we were all surprised in Michael [...]	D
Father Bobby: Listen, I got a story I want to tell [...]	D
Father Bobby: [about sermons, before the boys are [...]	D
Shakes' Father: He should not have to do time. Nob [...]	D
Lorenzo: Mike, are you sure you wanna go this way? [...]	D
Michael: Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. Now it's [...]	D
Lorenzo: The temperature topped out at ninety-eigh [...]	D
Carol: Mug me or marry me, Shakes. I'm too tired f [...]	D
Lorenzo: I couldn't look at him. He might look rig [...]	D
Michael: You read the Count of Monte Cristo lately [...]	D
Danny Snyder: Did you observe these experiences? [...]	D
Fat Mancho: The street is the only thing that matt [...]	D
Lorenzo: Michael was the most sexually experienced [...]	D
Nokes: So what do you want? John Reilly: What I'v [...]	D
[Nokes is escorting Shakes, Mike, John, and Tommy [...]	D
[last lines] Lorenzo: The future lay sparkling ah [...]	D
Michael: I just wish I could shut my eyes, and not [...]	D
Lorenzo: I didn't know you like pigeons so much. [...]	D
Lorenzo: [narrating about Father Bobby] I told him [...]	D
Carol: The man I know is not the boy you remember. [...]	D
Priest: You will be defenders of the faith. You wi [...]	D
Tommy: [after John shot Nokes in the groin] Did th [...]	D
John: One down, Shakes, one down. Lorenzo: One wh [...]	D
Fat Mancho: You want a Rolls-Royce, you don't come [...]	D
King Benny: Father Bobby would have made a good hi [...]	D
Fat Mancho: That street is the dish of life, and y [...]	D
[Shakes is about to see Father Bobby] Lorenzo: [n [...]	D
Michael: It's payback time.	D
Lorenzo: The plan, as it turned out, was as simple [...]	D
Michael: Do you still sleep with the lights on?	D
Tommy: This is amazing! John Reilly: Hello! It's [...]	D
Young Lorenzo: They killed him? Young Michael: Th [...]	D
Young John Reilly: I could die now, and I wouldn't [...]	D
Judge #1: John Reilly, the Court hereby sentences [...]	D
Nokes: [after breaking up fight] So you Hell's Kit [...]	D
Nokes: What do you want? John: What I've always w [...]	D
[voice over] Lorenzo: Young protesters spoke abou [...]	D
Lorenzo: A number of the inmates, as tough as they [...]	D
King Benny: Father Bobby would have made a good hi [...]	D
Young Michael: We haven't hit the hot dog vendor i [...]	D
Young John Reilly: Hey, uh, Father. How long did i [...]	D
Rizzo: [about why he won't play football] Guards s [...]	D
Young John Reilly: [Sadly] I want to be able to sl [...]	D
Lorenzo: There are no clear pictures of the sexual [...]	D
Father Bobby: And you won't need a doctor when I'm [...]	D
Father Bobby: It was the Sistine Chapel he painted [...]	D
Nokes: [Watching Shakes undress and sees he's wear [...]	D
[first lines] Lorenzo: This is a true story about [...]	D
Woman at Subway Station: Sweet Jesus! What have yo [...]	D
Lorenzo: [after handing Detective Davenport survei [...]	D
Detective: Where'd you get this evidence? Lorenzo [...]	D
Young Michael: What do you want? Nokes: A blowjob [...]	D
Carol: Don't you guys have to go shoot somebody? [...]	D
Michael: You gotta get me one for our side. Loren [...]	D
Young Michael: We can eat hot dogs, or we can eat [...]	D
Father Bobby: What about the life that was taken, [...]	D
Father Bobby: [about Shakes' prank in the church] [...]	D

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