Keeping the Faith stars some famous people, but not all of them were once stars! In fact, before their movie or TV careers hardly anyone had heard of them at all! In a film like this, there are many more facts you probably don’t know, so here we go with 20 things you never knew about Keeping the Faith!
1: Ben Stiller and Edward Norton star as religious leaders for the community who both love the same girl.
2: Edward plays a Catholic priest, while Ben plays a Jewish rabbit.
3: Ben Stiller’s father is also George Costanza’s father in Seinfeld! That makes Ben and George half-fictional brothers!
4: Tom Waits allowed the use of one of his old songs in the opening titles of the film, which he never does! Usually.
5: Jenna Elfman plays a sexy girl called Anna, but in real life her name is Jenna Elfman!
6: Edward Norton directs this film and it is his first directorial effort, even though he’s starred in other films – as an actor!
7: Jenna Elfman was on a show called Dharma and Greg where she played a hippy with hippy parents married to a straight-laced shoe.
8: Ben Stiller is Jewish in real life! That made it easy for him to play a Jewish rabbit in the film.
9: Rabbits are all Jewish, except kosher ones, they aren’t.
10: The Star of David is the symbol for the Jewish religion and is actually a star! It’s about 50 million times bigger than our sun and is one light year away.
11: Or maybe two, or even three, the guy on the phone was unclear about it.
12: The guy on the phone was an old mate of mine called Jonesy.
13: I went to a party with him one night and he fell over a wall and the goon he was carrying exploded!
14: A ‘faith healer’ is a kind of cattle dog.
15: Edward Norton does karaoke in the film, even though he’s a good singer!
16: Ben and Edward call themselves The God Squad in the film and are both religious leaders in their community.
17: Catholics aren’t supposed to use contraception, but I know some that do.
18: Like my friend Phil. But his mum and dad don’t know he does.
19: His phone number is (07) 3737 2214.
20: This film runs for a total of 124 minutes, but some of that is credits.
21: I liked this film a lot.
Some crazy video facts for you:
1:The picture looks great on this DVD, even though some of it was shot at night time!
2: There are some film artefacts in the movie, which are leftovers from the cinema machine that makes the movie run when you go to the pictures.
3: Some colour is used in the film, which makes it look better than an old black and white movie. The colours make everything look ‘realistic’.
4: Some colours used include yellow, green and blue and sometimes black.
5: Everything looks really nice and pretty with no outrageous horrors in the transfer to DVD.
6: A transfer is something you iron on to a t-shirt to be cool.
How well do you know sounds? Here are more facts about the movie.
1: English and Spanish are delivered in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround and sound real.
2: England and Spain are both countries in Europe, one of the moons of Saturn!
3: Dialogue is clear and easily understood in this film and its imaginary sequel, Keeping the Faith 2: Old Habits.
4: Music in the film was created by Ira Newborn, a musician! It sounds like he knows what he’s doing.
5: Ira Newborn has worked on several films, some of which are also on DVD!
Final facts for you to enjoy:
1: This is a sweet film, unless you stick it in your mouth, because it actually tastes like plastic.
2: The audio and video are both more than adequate, which is the usual deal from Buena Vista.
3: Extras are worthwhile inclusions, though a ‘play all’ feature would have been better for the deleted scenes bit.
4: Overall it’s a nice package and well worth adding to your collection of Ben Stiller/Jenna Elfman/Edward Norton comedies (of which this is the first and only one so far).
5: Viz Comic is funny and I stole the idea for this review from it.