Now and Then (film)

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Now and Then

Now and Then Movie Poster
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
Produced by Demi Moore
Written by I. Marlene King
Starring Christina Ricci
Demi Moore
Melanie Griffith
Rosie O'Donnell
Music by Cliff Eidelman
Cinematography Ueli Steiger
Editing by Jacqueline Cambas
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) Flag of United States October 20, 1995
Running time 100 min.
Country USA
Language English
Budget 12 Million
IMDb profile

Now and Then is a 1995 film directed by Lesli Linka Glatter and starring Demi Moore, Melanie Griffith, Rosie O'Donnell and Rita Wilson, which tells the story of four friends that have been busy with their lives until an important event reunites them in their home town of Shelby, Indiana. Most of the film, however, is a flashback to the summer of 1970, in which the 12-year-old girls (played by Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffmann and Ashleigh Aston Moore) divide their time between gathering money to buy a treehouse in search for "independence" and investigating a local mystery. Both happy and unfortunate events occur, which help them realize they're growing up. Once they achieve their goal and buy the treehouse they make a promise to be there for one another. The film was released on October 20, 1995 and was not a big hit at the time, but did moderately well and has gone on to become a cult favorite, hailed as a "Stand by Me for girls". This film is based on the town of Winchester, Indiana and mentions many sights and sounds around this Midwestern city. The city council and many city leaders suppressed the inclusion of the name of Winchester in the film for fear it may have an adverse impact on the city.

Tagline: A summer when four friends made a promise to return anytime they needed each other. Twenty years later, that time has come.

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[edit] Cast

A summer when four friends made a promise to return anytime they needed each other. Twenty years later, that time has come.
A summer when four friends made a promise to return anytime they needed each other. Twenty years later, that time has come.

[edit] Trivia

  • Scenes in which the girls ran a carnival to raise money for their clubhouse were cut from the film. Also dropped was a sequence where the girls actually buy the clubhouse and a scene where Teeny receives the David Cassidy necklace she ordered through the mail. (The necklace she later breaks and gives half of to Sam.)
  • The little girl that plays Samantha's sister, Angela, is Demi Moore and Bruce Willis daughter Rumer Willis.
  • The original name of the movie was going to be "The Gaslight Addition".
  • Kirsten Dunst was originally offered the role of Chrissy but turned it down because she did not want to gain weight for the film. The part was eventually taken by Canadian actress Ashleigh Aston Moore (No relation to Demi). It was her first American film role, but she was very busy at the time in Canadian television and movies.
  • Demi Moore co-produced the movie.
  • Rita Wilson, who played the adult Chrissy, is the wife of actor Tom Hanks. She and Rosie O'Donnell, who plays Chrissy's best friend Roberta, were actually close friends in real life as well.
  • Melanie Griffith is the daughter of actress Tippi Hedren, best known for starring in Alfred Hitchcock films THE BIRDS and MARNIE. It was Hedren who suggested Thora Birch for the role of young Teeny, having worked with her in an earlier picture.
  • A sincere effort was made in assembling the creative team to fill as many positions as they could with qualified women. The film has a female writer, female director, female producer, female stars, even as many crew-members as possible were women.
  • Rosie O'Donnell's character was originally a lesbian, but scenes which implied this were edited out of the film. There's also a line that gave Roberta a boyfriend that was added in later.
  • Demi called in a lot of favors to bring in some well-known Hollywood actors for cameo roles. Aside from the main cast, there are also cameo roles by Cloris Leachman, Bonnie Hunt, Janeane Garafalo, Brendan Fraser, Hank Azaria, and Lolita Davidovich.
  • There were two 'soundtrack albums' released in connection with the film. The first featured mostly 70's pop hits used in the film such as the Archies 'Sugar Sugar' and 'Knock Three Times' by Tony Orlando and Dawn, along with the original theme song performed by Suzanna Hoffs, formerly of The Bangles. The second was orchestral incidental music by Cliff Eidelman that played in the background during many of the more serious scenes.
  • The film is set in a small Indiana town during the summer of 1970, so it was of course filmed in Savannah, Georgia in mid-winter in 1994. (Actually, that was the only time everyone's schedules matched up.)
  • Rosie O'Donnell contracted food poisoning while making the movie and had to be taken to the hospital. Unfortunately, the hospital workers, excited to have a 'movie star' in their midst, pestered her incessantly for autographs (she joked they kept mistaking her for Kathy Bates) and such to the point where she ended up having to check out and go back to the hotel to recuperate in private. She later worked this incident and the experience of filming the movie into a stand-up routine she performed on her HBO Special.
  • The 70's wardrobe met with mixed reactions from the girls. Christina Ricci (Roberta) reportedly was so repulsed by her character's outfits, she actually burst into tears. While she eventually got used to the fashions, and even did a later 70's period piece with similar outfits (The Ice Storm), she was still dumfounded by the way people dressed in the 70's. Gaby Hoffman later complained about the clothes being 'too tight' and 'not fitting right' and grew to hate the crocheted poncho she wore in several scenes. Thora Birch, on the other hand, loved fashion-conscious Teeny's emsembles.
  • This is the second movie in which Christina Ricci and Devon Sawa kissed. The first was Casper, made a year or so earlier. However, they were never a couple in real life.
  • Brandon Kleyla, who has a small role as nose-picking nerd Bobby Fricker, later went on to direct a video for the band Insane Clown Posse.
  • 70's Pop Culture References: Many old science fiction and occult books are scattered around Sam's room, including A World Gone Mad and The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov. (Younger moviegoers sometimes mistake this for a Baby-Sitters Club paperback because of similar lettering on the cover.) Two pictures of Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins from the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows are on her wall. Roberta has a copy of the bubblegum classic Meet The Brady Bunch on her bureau. Teeny's walls are covered with boy band icons cut from old teen magazines. She has framed photos of James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Jayne Mansfield, and Marilyn Monroe and we see her pretending to be interviewed by gossip maven Rona Barrett. Chrissy has a close and play record player and a vintage Barbie playset. The girls take a "What's Your Sexual IQ?" quiz from Cosmopoliton Magazine. Sam complains in voiceover her mother "dresses like Nancy Sinatra as she's glimpsed passing in front of a movie marquee featuring Beyond The Valley of the Dolls. Teeny sits on the roof of her house watching the film Love Story at a nearby drive in movie with binoculars, and repeats the tagline "Love means never having to say you're sorry." Later, Teeny rattles off a number of TV show families with orphans and widowed parents, including Family Affair, The Partridge Family, and The Brady Bunch.

[edit] Alternate version

  • The version shown on ABC in late 2002 (as well as the versions shown on the Superstation and TNT) omits the scene where Samantha's mother makes them all hide under table while Cloris Leachman's character bangs on the door. A scene where the girls spy on skinny-dipping boys is also re-edited with less revealling shots of the boys.

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