Idle Hands

Idle Hands (1999)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

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Photo 20

Actors and characters

Release date

1999-04-30

Country

United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Team Todd, TriStar Pictures, Licht/Mueller Film Corporation

Genre

Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

Budget

$25 000 000

Revenue

$4 152 230

Website

Director

Rodman Flender

Actors

Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Christopher Hart, Vivica A. Fox, Jack Noseworthy, Katie Wright, Sean Whalen, Nicholas Sadler
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Scenario

Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer

Producer

Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Jeffrey Sudzin, Andrew Licht

Operator

Christopher Baffa

Composer

Graeme Revell

Artist

Audition

John Papsidera

Editing

Stephen E. Rivkin
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• Filming took place in the same locations where John Carpenter filmed *Halloween* (1978).
• Jack Nowell, who played Randy, and Cathy Wright, who played Tanya, did not know they were related (through one of their biological parents) until they met on set.
• The same hand appears in Barry Sonnenfeld's black comedy *The Addams Family* (1991). This refers to Thing, played by Christopher Hart.
• Some scenes of the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2003) and the black comedy "Queen of the Damned" (Darren Stein, 1999) were filmed in the school gymnasium, which hosted dances for Halloween celebrations.
• The punk rock band The Offspring is performing on stage in the gymnasium.
• Thomas DeLonge, founder and guitarist of the punk rock band Blink-182, played an employee at a drive-in wearing a hat with the inscription "Alright!"
• Anton's dog, Duke (a Rhodesian Ridgeback), played a talking dog in Todd Phillips' comedy "Road Trip" (2000).
• Anton is watching George A. Romero's horror film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) on television.
• Mic and Pnab are watching the film "Dawn of the Dead" (George A. Romero, 1978).
• Randy's tattoo is exactly the same as the one worn by Woody Harrelson's character in the crime drama "Natural Born Killers" (1994).
• In one scene of the film, Anton, played by Devon Sawa, injects real dish soap into his mouth. The actor came up with this detail directly on the set.
• When Anton kills two police officers, Pnab shouts: "Buffalo, forward!" This is a reference to a scene that did not make it into the final cut of the film, in which Anton describes the police officers as "the head and rear of the Buffalo school mascot" (in a life-sized costume).
• When Anton, stunned by the murder of his friends, bumps into a support beam in the house, the audience clearly hears the sound of the impact. This sound was not subsequently added to the scene. The actor actually hit the beam hard.
• In the scene where Anton is vomiting in the bushes when Pnub and Mick appear, Molly, played by Jessica Alba, can be seen in the background. She is playing the bass guitar while standing on a balcony. This is the final shot of a scene that was cut during final editing.
• The trailer includes a scene of Mick and Pnub in football gear climbing a staircase to heaven. This is an alternative ending to the film, which can be seen in the DVD release.
• Filming took place in the same locations where John Carpenter filmed "Halloween" (1978).
• The same hand appears in Barry Sonnenfeld's black comedy "The Addams Family" (1991). We are talking about the so-called Thing, played by Christopher Hart.
• Some scenes from the television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2003) and the black comedy "Queen of the Damned" (Darren Stein, 1999) were filmed in the school gymnasium where the Halloween dance takes place.
• Anton's dog named Duke (a Rhodesian Ridgeback) played a talking dog in Todd Phillips' comedy "Road Trip" (2000).
• Anton is watching George A. Romero's horror film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) on television.
• Mic and Pnab are watching the film "Dawn of the Dead" (George A. Romero, 1978).
• Randy’s tattoo is exactly the same as the one on Woody Harrelson’s character in the crime drama "Natural Born Killers" (1994).