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Awards season approaches, and while there are films of pure frivolity this week, many of the studios are turning their attention to films that will draw great critical acclaim and, hopefully, awards gold. There were films with good intentions early in the century that didn’t make the grade, but 1962 saw a Western epic that needed three directors to put the pieces together, earning eight Oscar nominations in the process including Best Picture. ’62 also had another seafaring epic that was a critical and commercial bomb but still got some love from the Oscars, including Best Picture. 2002 saw a rapper make his film debut and win an Oscar for Original Song, and 2012 put Denzel Washington in the pilot’s seat, earning himself a nomination. Disney also earned an Oscar nomination for its 52nd animated film but lost to its sibling company Pixar, and Helen Hunt went ‘the full monty’ and scored herself a nomination as well. Many more films made their debuts this week, so check out the list and tell us if your favorite has an anniversary this week!
1922
November 5 – The Headless Horseman (USA)
- Cast: Will Rogers, Lois Meredith, Ben Hendricks Jr., Charles E. Graham, Mary Foy, Bernard A. Reinold
- Director: Edward D. Venturini
- Production Company: Sleepy Hollow Corporation, distributed by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation
- Trivia: Adaption of Washington Irving’s 1820 short story ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. The first panchromatic black-and-white feature film, which kept the color blue from looking white, and lipstick from looking black as orthochromatic film did. The only one of three silent versions of the story that survives today, as well as the longest at 68 minutes. For authenticity, filming took place in the Hudson River Valley around Tarrytown, New York, the setting of Washington Irving’s story.
1932
November 3 – Air Mail (USA)
- Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart, Pat O’Brien, Slim Summerville, Lilian Bond, Russell Hopton, David Landau, Leslie Fenton, Frank Albertson, Hans Fuerberg, Thomas Carrigan, William Daly
- Director: John Ford
- Production Company: Universal Pictures
- Trivia: A copy of the film is preserved in the Library of Congress.
November 4 – Payment Deferred (UK)
- Cast: Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan, Dorothy Peterson, Verree Teasdale, Ray Milland, Billy Bevan, Halliwell Hobbes, William Stack
- Director: Lothar Mendes
- Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Trivia: Based on the 1931 play of the same name by Jeffrey Dell, which was in turn based on the 1926 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. Charles Laughton was also the lead in the play. Turner Classic Movies has aired a version of the film that restored the five cuts made to the film’s 1939 re-release to satisfy the Production Code.
November 6 – Sherlock Holmes (USA)
- Cast: Clive Brook, Miriam Jordan, Ernest Torrence, Herbert Mundin, Reginald Owen, Howard Leeds, Alan Mowbray, C. Montague Shaw, Frank Atkinson, Ivan F. Simpson, Stanley Fields
- Director: William K. Howard
- Production Company: Fox Film Corporation
- Trivia: Also known as Conan Doyle’s Master Detective Sherlock Holmes. Based on the successful stage play Sherlock Holmes by William Gillette, in turn based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Clive Brook had previously played Holmes in 1929’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes, and in the ‘Murder Will Out’ segment of 1930’s Paramount On Parade. Reginald Owen, who plays Watson, would play Holmes in 1933’s A Study in Scarlet.
1942
November 6 – Springtime in the Rockies (USA)
- Cast: Betty Grable, John Payne, Carmen Miranda, Cesar Romero, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Harry James, Chick Chandler, Iron Eyes Cody, Dick Elliott, Bess Flowers
- Director: Irving Cummings
- Production Company: 20th Century Fox
- Trivia: Based on the short story ‘Second Honeymoon’ by Philip Wylie, but purchased by Fox under the title ‘Worship the Sun’. Fox had filmed the story previously as Second Honeymoon in 1936. Jackie Gleason appears uncredited as ‘The Commissioner’. Fox paid Republic Pictures $1,160 for the rights to the title which the studio had earmarked for a Roy Rogers film, which went on to be titled Romance on the Range.
November 6 – Who Done It? (USA)
- Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan, Louise Allbritton, Thomas Gomez, William Bendix, Don Porter, Jerome Cowan, Mary Wickes, Ludwig Stössel
- Director: Erle C. Kenton
- Production Company: Universal Pictures
- Trivia: The film first opened in London on October 30, 1942. The first Abbott & Costello feature film to have no musical numbers. The film was re-released in 1949 on a double bill with Keep ‘Em Flying, and again in 1954 with Ride ‘Em Cowboy.
1952
November 3 – Kvinnors väntan (Sweden)
- Cast: Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Gunnar Björnstrand, Karl-Arne Holmsten
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Production Company: Svensk Filmindustri
- Trivia: Released in the US on July 11, 1961 as Secrets of Women. Also known as Waiting Women.
November 6 – Son of Geronimo: Apache Avenger (USA, serial)
- Cast: Clayton Moore, Bud Osborne, Tommy Farrell, Rodd Redwing, Marshall Reed, Eileen Rowe, John Crawford, Zon Murray, Rick Vallin, Lyle Talbot, Chief Yowlachie
- Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet
- Production Company: Sam Katzman Productions, distributed by Columbia Pictures
- Trivia: The serial was presented in 15 chapters.
November 7 – Beware, My Lovely (Canada)
- Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes, Barbara Whiting, James Willmas, O. Z. Whitehead
- Director: Harry Horner
- Production Company: The Filmakers, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
- Trivia: Based on the 1950 play The Man by Mel Dinelli, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie was shot in 18 days.
1962
November 2 – La commare secca (Italy)
- Cast: Marisa Solinas, Allen Midgette, Giancarlo De Rosa, Alfredo Leggi
- Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
- Production Company: Cinematografica Cervi, Cineriz, distributed by DLS Film
- Trivia: Based on a short story by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Italian title translates to ‘The skinny gossip’. Released in the US in 1982 as The Grim Reaper. Bernardo Bertolucci’s directorial debut at age 21.
November 2 – How the West Was Won (UK)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Carroll Baker, Debbie Reynolds, Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead, Walter Brennan, Brigid Bazlen, Andy Devine, Harry Morgan, John Wayne, Russ Tamblyn, Raymond Massey, Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark, Gregory Peck, Robert Preston, Thelma Ritter, David Brian, Lee J. Cobb, Eli Wallach, Carolyn Jones, Mickey Shaughnessy, George Peppard
- Director: Henry Hathaway, John Ford, George Marshall
- Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Cinerama, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Trivia: Actors appearing in uncredited roles include Lee Van Cleef, Ken Curtis, and Harry Dean Stanton. The last appearance by 66-year-old Raymond Massey as Abraham Lincoln. Originally filmed in three-lens Cinerama to be projected on a curved screen, one of only two dramatic films to use the process. Earned eight Oscar nominations including Best Picture, winning for Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1997. The Cinerama process required actors to be artificially positioned and out of sync with each other so when the three film elements were projected on the curved screen everything appeared synchronized. When projected on a flat screen, the actos appear to make no eye contact.
November 7 – The Legend of Lobo (USA)
- Cast: Lobo, Émile Genest, Walter Pidgeon, Rex Allen, Sons of the Pioneers
- Director: James Algar, Jack Couffer
- Production Company: Walt Disney Productions, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution
- Trivia: Based upon ‘Lobo the King of Currumpaw’ by Ernest Thompson Seton from the author’s 1898 book titled Wild Animals I Have Known.
November 8 – Mutiny on the Bounty (USA)
- Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Richard Haydn, Tarita Teriipaia, Matahiarii Tama, Percy Herbert, Duncan Lamont, Gordon Jackson, Chips Rafferty, Noel Purcell
- Director: Lewis Milestone
- Production Company: Arcola Pictures, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Trivia: Based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. First motion picture to be filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It was panned by critics and was a flop, losing more than $6 million. Brando agreed to make the film for a $500,000 salary and 10% of the profits. Brando claimed he has been offered the lead in Lawrence of Arabia but chose Bounty because he preferred to film in Tahiti rather than spend six months in the desert. A replica of the Bounty was built in Nova Scotia and sailed to Tahiti, where it arrived after filming had commenced after taking three more months to construct than scheduled. Carol Reed was the film’s original director, but left the production after three months due to an ‘undisclosed ailment’. The rainy season had started in Tahiti and production moved back to Hollywood where MGM gave Reed 100 days to finish the picture. He said he needed 139 and was fired, replaced with Lewis Milestone in his last theatrical film. Milestone assumed it would be easy to finish a mostly completed film, and discovered only a single seven-minute segment had been completed. Filming resumed in Tahiti in April 1961. The film went $10 million over budget. The studio was unhappy with the film’s ending. Several were pitched, including one by Brando, but the one in the film was suggested by Billy Wilder, which Milestone refused to direct so George Seaton shot the scene. The film did earn seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Special Effects. It also earned three Golden Globe nominations including Best Supporting Actress for newcomer Tarita, whom Brando had personally selected for the role, and married in 1962 (they divorced in 1972).
1972
November 3 – The Valachi Papers (USA)
- Cast: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Guido Leontini, Amedeo Nazzari, Fausto Tozzi
- Director: Terence Young
- Production Company: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Euro-France Films, distributed by Columbia Pictures
- Trivia: An adaptation of the 1968 non-fiction book of the same name by Peter Maas. Joe Don Baker appears in an uncredited role. Charles Bronson turned down the lead twice before accepting it when he found the character got to age from his teens to early 60s. Bronson also received a three-picture deal at $1 million per film plus a percentage of the films’ gross. The film was originally to debut in February 1973, but was moved up to capitalize on the success of The Godfather.
1982
November 4 – We of the Never Never (Australia)
- Cast: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, John Jarratt, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Tony Barry, Tommy Lewis
- Director: Igor Auzins
- Production Company: Adam Packer Film Productions, Film Corporation of Western Australia, General Television Corporation, distributed by Hoyts Distribution
- Trivia: Based on the 1908 autobiographical novel We of the Never Never by Jeannie Gunn. Nominated for five AFI awards, winning one for Best Cinematography.
November 5 – The Missionary (USA)
- Cast: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern, Graham Crowden, David Suchet, Phoebe Nicholls, Roland Culver, Rosamund Greenwood, Timothy Spall, Neil Innes
- Director: Richard Loncraine
- Production Company: HandMade Films, distributed by HandMade Films (UK), Columbia Pictures (USA)
- Trivia: Sir John Gielgud turned down the role of Lord Ames. Sir Laurence Olivier was then offered the part, but proved to be too expensive. In the end, the character was cast with Trevor Howard. Michael Palin’s first solo film outside of Monty Python. Palin had originally conceived the film with the title The Missionary Position. David Suchet’s theatrical film debut. Peter Vaughan filmed scenes as Mr. MacKintosh but they were cut from the film.
1992
November 4 – C’est arrivé près de chez vous (France)
- Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Valérie Parent, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Jean-Marc Chenut, Alain Oppezzi, Vincent Tavier
- Director: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
- Production Company: Les Artistes Anonymes, distributed by Acteurs Auteurs Associés
- Trivia: Released in the US as Man Bites Dog with an NC-17 rating. The French title translates to ‘It Happened Near Your Home’. Shot on black-and-white 16mm film. An R-rated version, that removes the killing of a child and tones down some nudity and violence, was produced for home video as NC-17 films could not be stocked at Blockbuster Video. The film was banned in Sweden, and the video was banned in Ireland in 2003.
November 6 – Jennifer 8 (USA)
- Cast: Andy García, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Graham Beckel, Kathy Baker, Kevin Conway, John Malkovich, Perry Lang, Bob Gunton, Lenny Von Dohlen
- Director: Bruce Robinson
- Production Company: Paramount Pictures
- Trivia: Though Bruce Robinson liked Andy Garcia, he felt his casting ruined the film because the role was not written for a handsome lead, rather for a ‘shagged out older cop’ with Gene Hackman or Al Pacino in mind.
November 6 – Passenger 57 (USA)
Warner Bros. Pictures
- Cast: Wesley Snipes, Bruce Payne, Tom Sizemore, Alex Datcher, Bruce Greenwood, Robert Hooks, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael Horse, Marc Macaulay, Ernie Lively
- Director: Kevin Hooks
- Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Trivia: The film was originally written with a Clint Eastwood-type in mind for the lead. Writer Stewart Raffill could not think of a title, and saw a bottle of Heinz 57 ketchup on a table and used Passenger 57 as his title. Though set at a small Louisiana airport, it was filmed at Orlando-Sanford International Airport, using the Naval Air Station’s hangar and control tower before their demolition.
2002
November 7 – Crackerjack (Australia)
- Cast: Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Samuel Johnson, Judith Lucy, John Clarke, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, Lois Ramsey, Cliff Ellen, Bob Hornery, John Flaus
- Director: Paul Moloney
- Production Company: Macquarie Film Corporation, Molloy Boy Productions, distributed by Roadshow Entertainment
- Trivia: The main bowling scenes were filmed at Melbourne Bowling Club in Windsor, Victoria. Earned two AFI nominations for Direction and Screenplay.
November 8 – 8 Mile (USA/Canada)
- Cast: Eminem, Kim Basinger, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Evan Jones, Omar Benson Miller, De’Angelo Wilson, Eugene Byrd, Taryn Manning, Michael Shannon, Anthony Mackie, Xzibit
- Director: Curtis Hanson
- Production Company: Imagine Entertainment, Mikona Productions GmbH & Co. KG, distributed by Universal Pictures
- Trivia: Eminem’s film debut. The film won its sole Oscar nomination for Best Original Song (‘Lose Yourself’).
November 8 – Real Women Have Curves (USA)
- Cast: America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Jorge Cervera Jr., Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez, Brian Sites
- Director: Patricia Cardoso
- Production Company: HBO Films, Newmarket Films, LaVoo Productions, distributed by Newmarket Films
- Trivia: Based on the play of the same name by Josefina López. Winner of the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award for acting at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. The first Latina-directed film to be selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2019.
November 8 – Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Denmark)
- Cast: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen, Julia Davis
- Director: Lone Scherfig
- Production Company: Zentropa Entertainments, Wilbur Ltd., Scottish Screen, Sigma Films, TV2 Danmark, Glasgow Film Office, Sveriges Television, distributed by Nordisk Film Biografdistribution
- Trivia: Lone Scherfig considers it her most complete film.
2012
November 2 – A Late Quartet (USA, limited)
- Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir, Imogen Poots, Anne Sofie von Otter, Madhur Jaffrey, Liraz Charhi, Wallace Shawn
- Director: Yaron Zilberman
- Production Company: Opening Night Productions, RKO Pictures, distributed by Entertainment One
- Trivia: Released in Australia as Performance. Actors had their own instructors to learn how to play their instruments. The Brentano String Quartet was filmed with five cameras, which was then edited into a ‘video-board’ to help the actors with the performances. The first production to be granted permission to film inside the Frick Collection.
November 2 – A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman (USA, limited)
- Cast: Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Cameron Diaz, Philip Bulcock, Justin McDonald, André Jacquemin, Margarita Doyle
- Director: Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett
- Production Company: Bill and Ben Productions, distributed by Brainstorm Media
- Trivia: Loosely based on A Liar’s Autobiography: Volume VI, a book written by Chapman and David Sherlock. Palin, Jones, Cleese, Carol Cleveland and Stephen Fry voice various characters. Eric Idle was the only member of Monty Python not involved in the film. Fourteen animation companies were employed, each working on a chapter of the film that ranged from 3 to 12 minutes. The film’s official trailer ‘quoted’ Chapman as saying, ‘This is the best film I’ve been in since I died.’
November 2 – Amber Alert (USA)
- Cast: Summer Bellessa, Chris Hill, Jasen Wade, Caleb Thompson, Brooke Thompson, Tom Murray
- Director: Kerry Bellessa
- Production Company: Bluefields Entertainment, Underground, distributed by Wrekin Hill Entertainment
November 2 – Flight (USA/Canada)
Paramount Pictures
- Cast: Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, John Goodman, Melissa Leo, Tamara Tunie, Nadine Velazquez, Brian Geraghty, Peter Gerety, Garcelle Beauvais, James Badge Dale
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Production Company: Parkes & McDonald Image Nation, ImageMovers, distributed by Paramount Pictures
- Trivia: Loosely inspired by the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. The film was Oscar nominated for Best Actor (Washington) and Best Original Screenplay. Washington also received a Golden Globe nomination. Hal Williams was the voice of Whip’s father. Washington and Zemeckis waived their usual fees, keeping the budget to a slim $31 million (also helped by Georgia tax rebates).
November 2 – Midnight’s Children (Canada, limited)
- Cast: Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth Narayan, Darsheel Safary, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Neha Mahajan, Seema Biswas, Charles Dance, Samrat Chakrabarti, Rajat Kapoor
- Director: Deepa Mehta
- Production Company: David Hamilton Productions, Hamilton-Mehta Productions, Number 9 Films, distributed by GEM Entertainment
- Trivia: Adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel of the same name. Shooting was kept a secret as Deepa Mehta feared protests by Islamic fundamentalist groups. Cast members had secrecy clauses added to their contracts to help keep the production quiet. Rushdie condensed his 600 page novel into a 130 page screenplay, and sold the rights to the novel for $1.00. The film’s working title was Winds of Change.
November 2 – North Sea Texas (USA)
- Cast: Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht, Mathias Vergels, Nina Marie Kortekaas, Katelijne Damen, Luk Wyns, Thomas Coumans
- Director: Bavo Defurne
- Production Company: Indeed Films, Mollywood, Eén, The Flanders Audiovisual Fund, distributed by Strand Releasing
- Trivia: Based on André Sollie’s Nooit gaat dit over. The film had previously been released in Belgium on March 16, 2011, the Netherlands on March 7, 2012, and Germany on May 10, 2012. Bavo Defurne’s feature directorial debut.
November 2 – The Bay (USA, limited)
- Cast: Kether Donohue, Kristen Connolly, Will Rogers, Stephen Kunken, Robert Treveiler, Nansi Aluka, Christopher Denham, Frank Deal, Michael Beasley, Jody Thompson, Andrew Stahl, Jane McNeill
- Director: Barry Levinson
- Production Company: Baltimore Pictures, Haunted Movies, Alliance Films, IM Global, Hydraulx Entertainment, Automatik Entertainment, distributed by Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions
- Trivia: The film was developed out of a documentary Levinson was asked to produce about problems facing the Chesapeake Bay. The doc was abandoned after Frontline had covered the topic already, so Levinson’s research was put into a horror film. Using the ‘found footage’ format, about one-third of the film was shot by the actors. While the film is set in Maryland, it was shot in North and South Carolina.
November 2 – The Details (USA, limited)
- Cast: Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Kerry Washington, Ray Liotta, Laura Linney, Dennis Haysbert
- Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
- Production Company: LD Entertainment, distributed by RADiUS-TWC
- Trivia: James McAvoy was originally set to star but had to drop out due to schedule conflicts and was replaced with Tobey Maguire.
November 2 – The Man with the Iron Fists (USA/Canada)
- Cast: RZA, Rick Yune, Russell Crowe, Lucy Liu, David Bautista, Jamie Chung, Cung Le, Byron Mann, Pam Grier
- Director: RZA
- Production Company: Strike Entertainment, Arcade Pictures, distributed by Universal Pictures
- Trivia: Writer Eli Roth appears in a cameo. Due to a tight schedule, some scenes were filmed in a single take. RZA pushed the crew to work faster which resulted in injuries to stuntmen. Some stunt sequences had to be completed with CGI because of the injuries. The first cut of the film was four hours long, and RZA suggested splitting it into two films. Roth disagreed and it was cut to 96 minutes with graphic content removed to meet the studio’s criteria for a less restrictive rating. RZA quit the editing process for two weeks, upset over having to make the cuts. An unrated cut of the film incorporating about 12 minutes of extra footage was released on home video.
November 2 – This Must Be the Place (USA, limited)
- Cast: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Kerry Condon, Grant Goodman, Harry Dean Stanton, Joyce Van Patten, David Byrne, Shea Whigham
- Director: Paolo Sorrentino
- Production Company: Lucky Red, Medusa Film, Indigo Film, Eurimages, Pathé, distributed by Element Pictures
- Trivia: Fritz Weaver provided the voice of Cheyenne’s deceased father. Paolo Sorrentino wrote the movie for Sean Penn. Sorrentino’s first film shot in English. David Byrne wrote original music for the film, and the film’s title was taken from Talking Heads’ ‘This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)’.
November 2 – Wreck-It Ralph (USA/Canada)
- Cast: John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Mindy Kaling, Joe Lo Truglio, Ed O’Neill, Dennis Haysbert, Adam Carolla, Horatio Sanz, Rich Moore, Edie McClurg, Skylar Astin, John DiMaggio
- Director: Rich Moore
- Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- Trivia: Disney’s 52nd animated film. Oscar and Golden Globe nominated for Best Animated Feature Film but lost both to Pixar’s Brave. The film introduced Disney’s new bidirectional reflectance distribution functions, with more realistic reflections on surfaces, and new virtual cinematography Camera Capture system, which makes it possible to go through scenes in real time. To research the Sugar Rush segment of the film, the visual development group traveled to trade fair ISM Cologne, a See’s Candy factory, and other manufacturing facilities. The film’s working title was High Score as it was being developed in the late 1980s. It was redeveloped in the 1990s with the title Joe Jump, and again in the mid-2000s as Reboot Ralph. Existing video game characters were incorporated into the story without rights consideration, then producers sought permission to include the characters.
November 8 – The Sessions (Australia)
- Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks, Adam Arkin, Rhea Perlman, W. Earl Brown, Robin Weigert, Blake Lindsley, Ming Lo, Rusty Schwimmer
- Director: Ben Lewin
- Production Company: Such Much Films, Rhino Films, distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Trivia: Based on the 1990 article “On Seeing a Sex Surrogate” by Mark O’Brien. The film debuted under its original title The Surrogate at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award (U.S. Dramatic) and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting. Helen Hunt received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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