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Continental Divide

Year:

1981

Duration:

103 min

Genres:

Comedy | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.1

Director:

Michael Apted

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1981-09-18

Filming Locations: Cedar Falls, Washington, USA

Earnings

Opening Weekend: $3,218,347 (USA) (20 September 1981)

Gross: $10,430,647 (USA) (18 October 1981)

Cast

Actor

Character

Tony Ganios

John Belushi

Ernie Souchak

Blair Brown

Nell Porter

Allen Garfield

Howard McDermott (as Allen Goorwitz)

Carlin Glynn

Sylvia

Val Avery

Yablonowitz

Liam Russell

Deke Lewis

Everett Smith

Fiddle

Bill Henderson

Train Conductor

Bruce Jarchow

Hellinger

Eddie Schwartz

Jimmy

Harold Holmes

Mr. Feeney

Elizabeth Young

Mrs. Feeney

Ron Dean

Plesko

Frankie Hill

Agatha

Mike Bacarella

Delaney (as Michael Bacarella)

Marji Bank

Mrs. Yablonowitz

Christopher Lowell

Poacher

Frank Noel

Poacher (as Frank Noel Jr.)

Zaid Farid

Mugger

Rai Rogers

Mugger

Jack Decker

Police Thug

Ben Rawnsley

Police Thug

Dave Adams

Alderman

Dallas Alinder

Alderman

Ronald W. McLeish

Station Master (as Ron McLeish)

Chuck Bailey

Station Master

Yana Nirvana

Blonde

Joe Wright

Newsboy

Tim Kazurinsky

Reporter

Robert Biggs

Reporter

Frank Heinrich

Cab Driver

Paul Mathews

Moderator

John Larson

Henchman

Norm Tobin

Layout Man

Brent Dunsford

Parent (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This picture was conceived as being a modern version of the Katharine Hepburn - Spencer Tracy romantic comedies of old.

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The film is dedicated to Andy Goodman.

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Steven Spielberg was the executive producer of the film, the first to be made by his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Lead actor John Belushi and Spielberg previously collaborated on 1941 (1979).

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Goofs

Nell is chopping wood as Ernie approaches. As they begin to talk Nell piles wood in her cradled left arm. The next shot is closer and at a different angle. As this shot begins Nell has no wood and begins to pile it once again in her cradled left arm.

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When the apartment blows up the headline on Souchak's column is "Room Wanted - Quiet Tenant," while later, when Nell is looking through Ernie's Rolodex of saved columns the headline is "Apartment Wanted - Quiet Tenant."

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When Souchak rides the Empire Builder back to Wyoming with Nell, the train takes a route the Empire Builder never takes. In the movie, the train goes through Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and then on to Victor, Wyoming, where they get off. The real Empire Builder goes north from Chicago to Milwaukee and then Minneapolis before heading northwest and crossing North Dakota, Montana and Idaho near the Canadian border. It goes nowhere near Iowa or Wyoming.

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Quotes

Ernie Souchak: I've never seen such big balls - and I'm from Chicago.

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Ernie Souchak: But why ornithology?

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Ernie Souchak: It's so quiet up here, you could hear a mouse get a hard on.

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