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Memorable Movie Quotes
James Coughlin: If we get jammed up, we're holding court on the street.
Fergus 'Fergie' Colm: Do I hear you got a sweet new girlfriend?
Trivia
Every Boston Police cruiser shown in the film comes from the fictional district A-8, which also existed in Boston's Finest (2010).
Shipped to theaters under the code name "Criminal Intent".
The Charlestown ice arena was filmed at the Harvard's Bright Hockey Center in Allston, MA.
Originally set to be directed by Adrian Lyne, but he had a falling out with Warner Bros., so they asked Ben Affleck to step in.
The film's premiere was held at Fenway Park. The cast walked a red carpet along the first baseline.
The Studio heads initially wanted the novel's ending, which was a darker ending for the film in which Doug (Ben Affleck) is mortally wounded during his shootout with Fergie (Pete Postlethwaite) and ends up dying in Claire's (Rebecca Hall) apartment in her arms, like in the novel. The ending was filmed but test audiences approved the theatrical version of the ending in which Doug survives.
Goofs
While the gang prepares to rob Fenway Park after the Red Sox-Yankees series, the TV shows a game between the Red Sox and Toronto.
After the second heist when the thieves are swapping cars, when they pull up on the side of the road, you can clearly see that there isn't a police car or digger on the other side of the road, but as soon as they get out their car, the police car and digger appears.
In the beginning of the movie during the bank robbery Claire is told to put in the combination for the Vault. The bank manager only has one half of the combination not the full combination.
Frawley tells Christina that the Department of Social Services has her daughter. In Massachusetts, this agency is actually called The Department of Children and Families.
The bag Doug has left for Claire in her garden contains money, a note, and a tangerine, hinting that he has gone to Tangerine, Florida, the hometown of his missing mother. The last scene of Doug shows him in a stilt house on a coastal waterway. The real Tangerine is a rural community in Central Florida, far from the kind of waterway pictured in the shot.
Box Office Info In USA
Budget: $37,000,000
Gross $92,173,235
Filming Locations
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Fenway Park - 4 Yawkey Way, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Melrose, Massachusetts, USA (exterior)
Mohegan Sun Casino - 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd., Uncasville, Connecticut, USA
Somerville, Massachusetts, USA