Reign Over Me

Reign Over Me (2007)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2007-03-22

Country

United States

Production

Happy Madison Productions, Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Madison 23, Sunlight Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

$20 000 000

Revenue

$22 222 308

Website

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/reignoverme

Director

Mike Binder

Actors

Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows, Donald Sutherland, Robert Klein, Melinda Dillon, Mike Binder, Jonathan Banks
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Jack Binder, Michael Rotenberg, Jack Giarraputo, Lynwood Spinks

Operator

Russ T. Alsobrook

Composer

Rolfe Kent

Artist

Audition

Sharon Bialy

Editing

Steve Edwards, Jeremy Roush
All team (25)

• The film's original title, "Reign over me," is taken from the title of The Who's song "Love, reign over me" (from the album "Quadrophenia").
• The video game that Charlie plays is "Shadow of the Colossus," released in October 2005 for the PlayStation-2 platform.
• The role of the main character was written for Tom Cruise by Mike Binder, but he declined to participate in the project.
• At one point, Javier Bardem was considered for the role of Alan, which was eventually played by Don Cheadle, but he was busy with other projects at the time, and the role went to Cheadle. However, Bardem deserves credit for Adam Sandler being in the film. He recommended Sandler to writer and director Mike Binder after seeing the actor in the romantic comedy 'Punch-Drunk Love'.
• Initially, Adam Sandler turned down the offer to star in the film, although he really liked the character. About a month later, he reread the script and agreed to participate in the filming.
• The Manhattan Criminal Court scenes were filmed at Baruch College in New York.
• The film's original title, “Reign over me,” is taken from the title of The Who’s song “Love, reign over me” (from the album “Quadrophenia”).
• The video game Charlie is playing is “Shadow of the Colossus,” released in October 2005 for the PlayStation-2 platform.
• At one point, Javier Bardem was considered for the role of Alan, which was eventually played by Don Cheadle, but he was busy with other projects at the time, and the role went to Cheadle. However, Bardem deserves credit for Adam Sandler being cast in the film. He recommended Sandler to screenwriter and director Mike Binder after seeing him in the romantic comedy “Rebound.”