FILM 2279: KEEPING THE FAITH (2000)

TRIVIA: Edward Norton's directorial debut.

Dedicated to star Edward Norton's late mother Robin Norton.

When Jake and Anna go to the cinema they say they're going to see "García's film", they're talking about Andy Garcia and the movie is When a Man Loves a Woman (1994).

While Father Brian (Edward Norton) is commiserating with Paulie the bartender (Brian George), Brian clarifies: "You're a Sikh, Catholic Muslim with Jewish in-laws?" And Paulie responds, "Yes. Yes. It gets very complicated. I'm reading Dianetics." In fact, Brian George has a different but equally varied background: he was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents of Indian, Lebanese, and Iraqi descent who had emigrated to Israel from India. While George was still a baby, his family moved to London, and then, when George was a teenager, they moved again, this time to Toronto, Canada.

Edward Norton was previously directed by Milos Forman in The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996). In return, Forman appears as an actor in this film directed by Norton.