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Best Leading Voice Actor | 2007
Best Voice Actor | 2007
Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldnt | 2006
Budget 55,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 9,450,897 USD
The movie was a major flop and, despite its strong cast and production team, grossed only $9.4 million worldwide on a budget of $55 million. Forbes Magazine voted it the biggest flop in the years spanning 2005-2009. Few critics endorsed it, despite its having garnered strong Oscar buzz before its premiere. Director Steven Zaillian described the experience as "like getting hit by a truck".
According to Jackie Earle Haley, writer, producer, and director Steven Zaillian had wanted to cast him for the role of Sugar Boy, and had him at the top of his short list. Haley said that when he met with Zaillian, Steven remembered his work from years ago, and wanted to see how Haley had aged. Zaillian had mentioned that he spoke to Sean Penn (Willie Stark), who had also thought of Haley for the role.
Writer, producer, and director Steven Zaillian never saw All the King's Men (1949), and adapted the screenplay solely from Robert Penn Warren's novel.
Meryl Streep was originally cast as Sadie Burke, but had to back out due to schedule conflicts.
The last movie featuring Frederic Forrest (Willie's Father), who retired from acting after this movie.
"Jack Burden: [to Anne, explaining what happened to his marriage] A lot of tangled bedclothes and unspoken loathing, then spoken loathing and no tangled bedclothes."
"Jack Burden: The friend of your youth is the only friend you'll ever have. For he doesn't really see you. He sees in his mind a face which doesn't exist anymore, speaks a name... Spike, Bud, Red, Rusty... Jack... that belongs to that now nonexistent face. He's still the young idealist you used to be, still sees good and bad in black and white and men as sinners or saints but never both and feels superior in the knowledge that you no longer can distinguish the two. That's what drives you to it. To try to stick the knife in. There is a kind of snobbery in failure like the twist to the mouth of a drunk."
