Rob Roy

Rob Roy (1995)

Timing: 2:19 (139 min)

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Release date

1995-04-13

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

United Artists, Talisman Productions, Talisman Films

Genre

Adventure, History, Drama, Action, War

Budget

$28 000 000

Revenue

$58 696 911

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Director

Michael Caton-Jones

Actors

Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Brian Cox, Jason Flemyng, Andrew Keir, Shirley Henderson, Brian McCardie
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Scenario

Producer

Richard Jackson, Peter Broughan, Michael Caton-Jones

Operator

Karl Walter Lindenlaub

Composer

Carter Burwell

Artist

Audition

Editing

Peter Honess
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• Tim Roth believed he would be fired, as his character turned out to be quite eccentric. He even instructed his agent to start looking for new roles for him. However, director Michael Caton-Jones asked him to make the character as vulgar, pretentious, and eccentric as possible, and Roth was subsequently nominated for an Oscar for his role in the film.
• The entire film was shot on location in Scotland, mostly in such remote places that the only way to reach them was by helicopter.
• Jason Fleming appeared in a cameo role in the film, against the advice of his own agent. Fleming was determined to star in a film with his idol, Tim Roth.
• In one scene, John Hurt's character (1940-2017) laments the Queen's lack of an heir. This is a reference to her 17 pregnancies, which resulted in six miscarriages, six stillbirths, two cases where the baby lived only minutes after birth, the birth of a daughter who lived less than a year, and another who did not live to two years old, and the birth of her son William, Duke of Gloucester, who died a few days after his eleventh birthday and two years before Anne's accession to the throne.
• Filming in Scotland was difficult due to the constant rain and swarms of midges.