Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest's commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures
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In an interview he gave during the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival, Robert Redford talked about this comedic film being a good note to end on, since the actor wanted his "last acting job to be fun."
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Robert Redford's final role before retiring from acting.
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The film cast includes four Oscar winners: Casey Affleck, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Keith Carradine; and one Oscar nominee: Tom Waits.
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There are several "Easter egg" references to Robert Redford's earlier films, including the opening legend, which is nearly identical to the one that opens "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" ("Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true") and the scene between Redford and Casey Affleck, where Affleck runs a finger over the side of his nose, which was the signal in "The Sting" between the con men that they were fellow-travelers.
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The script is based on David Grann's 2003 article in The New Yorker titled "The Old Man and the Gun", which was later collected in Grann's book The Devil and Sherlock Holmes.
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Although he receives fourth billing, Keith Carradine's role was almost completely dropped; he appears for literally three or four seconds with a single line of dialogue. (Director David Lowery has stated the cut footage will be included on the DVD.)
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Filmed in Hamilton, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Waco, Texas; Ft. Worth, Texas. Filmed in Bethel, Ohio on April 4, 2017 at the Midway Theater and Wichard Oil gas station.
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Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford won an Oscar in the same year. Spacek won as Best Actress in a Leading Role for Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) and Redford won as Best Director for Ordinary People (1980).
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The opening credits are also written in the same font as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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David Lowery tried to write the true crime version of this movie and the journalistic version of what really happened, and Robert Redford never felt like he fit into that. In other words, according to Lowery himself, his idea of who Robert Redford was as an actor never really fit into the true story of Forrest Tucker. So after many, many drafts, he realized that what he needed to write was the movie that Forrest Tucker would have wanted to see. He needed to write the version of Forrest Tucker that he saw in his own head as opposed to the one that really showed all the things he did. There was a thin line between two, but it was a very important line and that line allowed him to write a movie that was the version that Robert Redford could excel playing.
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Reunites director David Lowery and actor Casey Affleck. Their prior collaborations are Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013) and A Ghost Story (2017).
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In the hospital scene, John Hunt (Casey Affleck) as he leaves the room of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) swipes the side of his nose with his left index finger. The same gesture occurs several times in Robert Redford's "The Sting" by Redford's, Paul Newman's, Harold Gould's characters, and others as an nonverbal acknowledgment that "I see you and I'm here and ready for the sting."
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Shot on Super 16.
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Real life main character is not related to the late, great character actor Forrest Tucker (1919-1986).
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The other members of the Over-The-Hill Gang were John Waller (played by Tom Waits), who'd escaped maximum-security San Quentin with Tucker in 1979; another man with whom they'd built a boat from smuggled supplies and nearly made it past the guard tower before high waves capsized them; a guard who saw their hand-painted outfits and overturned kayak was won over by a joke Tucker made, and let them go on their way; and Teddy Green (played by Danny Glover), an escape artist and fellow bank robber Tucker met during his 1950s stint in Alcatraz.
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At a certain point while he was writing the script, David Lowery decided that he has no business telling (A) a true story, (B) a story about cops and robbers, and (C) a story about people who have lived a great deal of life.
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When she is dropped off at her home by Robert Redford's character Forrest, Sissy Spacek's face is momentarily illuminated by a bright red light, supposedly the brake light of Forrest's car as he turns the ignition. This image is a clear reference to the climax of Spacek's earlier film Carrie.
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Decision to quit acting on Robert Redford's part was taken when he decided to take The Old Man & the Gun on.
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John David Washington & Isiah Whitlock Jr. previously appeared together as Southern police officers in BlacKkKlansman (2018).
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It was Robert Redford who was interested in talking to David Lowery about adapting David Grann's article that Redford had been wanting to make since he read it when it first came out in 2003.
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According to David Lowery, he wasn't excited necessarily about making a bank robber movie or a cops and robbers movie. Making the Robert Redford movie was really exciting to him.
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The title of the movie is obviously a play on Hemingway's book, The Old Man and the Sea.
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David Lowery met with Disney about Pete's Dragon the same day that he met Robert Redford about The Old Man & the Gun.
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The Old Man & the Gun was the first time that Sissy Spacek and Robert Redford had worked together. However they both did movies with Michael Ritchie: Redford did Downhill Racer (1969) and The Candidate (1972) and Spacek did Prime Cut (1972).
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The prison break montage features a clip from "The Chase" - starring a young Robert Redford.
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The shot of Robert Redford on the horse with a line of cop cars speeding in the distance was David Lowery's idea. For at a certain point while writing the chase scene, Lowery felt like he needed to take this pursuit further, leave reality behind, enter the symbolic realm and once again let Robert Redford status as a legend take precedence in the sequence. Also according to Lowery, it was one of those rare moments on set where you just feel like you're watching a little bit of history happen in front of you.
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According to David Lowery, the final montage of Forrest Tucker is like a summary of Robert Redford's career. It is as if "all those escapes almost feel like it's like you're listing the movies he's made".
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Police caught Forrest Tucker for the last time in 1999.
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It was a suggestion on Tom Waits' part that perhaps his character could have a monologue. When Waits brought the idea to the table, David Lowery asked him if he had any stories in mind that he'd like to tell and he told Lowery the Christmas story. Which as far as Lowery is concerned, is completely 100% true.
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In 1980, the Over-The-Hill Gang robbed as many as 60 banks in just one year.
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The real Forrest Tucker eventually found out that he had children even though the movie never addresses to the matter.
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The real Forrest Tucker died in prison on May 29, 2004.
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When Forrest Tucker settled into a happy life with third wife Jewell Centers in 1993, she -unlike her movie counterpart (played by Sissy Spacek)- had no idea of her husband's criminal career until his 80s arrest in 1999, thinking he was a stock broker named Bob Callahan.
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According to David Lowery, the clip from Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) was used because he saw similarities between Forrest Tucker and Warren Oates' character.
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Shooting the chase scene with the '55 chevy was David Lowery's way of paying homage to Two-Lane Blacktop (1971).
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Tall Downtown Dallas Building with green outline (Currently the Bank of America Building 901 Main Street) wasn't started until 1983, nor finished until 1985.
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When Forrest leaves the bank after trying to pay off Jewel's mortgage, he is seen in an overhead shot. Truncated domes are visible on the sidewalk near the street crossing (the 2 yellow panels) The movie takes place in the early 1980s, and truncated domes were not required in the United States until the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991. They were practically non existent in the U.S. before then.
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Downtown Dallas was a ghost town in 1981. No downtown homes had been built since the 1940s, office vacancy rates were high, most stores had closed in favor of suburban malls.
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When Casey Affleck's character, John Hunt, takes a Budweiser from his refrigerator, he twists off the cap from the bottle; Budweiser bottle tops in 1981 were pop off, not twist off. It wasn't til 2016 that Budweiser changed to twist off caps.
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Forrest straightens and tightens John Hunt's necktie, the but next scene shows the tie hanging loose.
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Forrest is arrested in 1981 at the age of 74, which puts his birth year at 1907. But a flashback shows him as a tween breaking out of a juvenile center in 1936--when he would have been 29.
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During the research scene prior to the bank heist on the roof the armoured car is number #5102. Years later after his prison sentence an armoured car goes past as Forrest and Jewel walk down the street. The exact same armoured car is used ..... also numbered #5102.
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During the ride with Spacek after picking her up from her broken truck, the door lock is in the locked position, then unlocked, then locked, and is unlocked every time we see her at the end of that driving scene.
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At the beginning of the movie when Jewel leaves the banknotes on the table, they are half folded but in the next shot the bills are perfectly plane.
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Round "American Bank" building identified as Bellmead, Texas may in fact be in nearby Waco, Tx.
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During the St. Louis bank heist the date shown on the banking table is Wed November 11th. Veterans Day has been a federal bank holiday since 1938, and the bank would have been closed. Also, this scene was bracketed by ones from September and October, so it appears out-of-order. At least 11/11/81 was a Wed.
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Besides using the usual movie convention of not using local TV channel numbers for newscasts, the news stories displayed were typical of smaller town station packages and looked more like early seventies news. Dallas TV news departments KDFW, KXAS, KTVT and especially WFAA-TV were high quality operations and WFAA's 1981 operation included many specialized "beat" reporters focusing on detailed investigation of business, crime, medicine, politics and sports.
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A pensive Jewel (Sissy Spacek) almost overfills a kettle with water. She then pours some water out and puts the kettle on the stove. She walks around for a bit, and mere seconds later, in the same take, the kettle starts whistling off screen. The amount of water in it would have taken several minutes to even warm up, let alone boil.
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When Forrest drives off the highway into a field to elude Montana police, Numerous tire tracks, presumably from previous takes, are visible.
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