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An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
- Nominated for 6 Oscars
- 29 wins & 169 nominations total
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- TriviaAlexander Payne's first experience shooting in black and white, with digital cameras and anamorphic lenses. Paramount initially balked at Payne's choice to shoot in black and white, but relented when previews yielded positive feedback.
- GoofsDavid's Subaru Outback has its gas tank on the passenger side. When his father disappears to get a beer, David fills up the tank on the driver side.
- Quotes
Receptionist: Does he have Alzheimer's?
David Grant: No, he just believes what people tell him.
Receptionist: That's too bad.
- Crazy creditsThe film opens with the 1960s Paramount widescreen logo.
- Alternate versionsAlexander Payne claimed a color version was created in an effort to appease Paramount Vantage studio executives over releasing a black and white film. Although he had no plans or intentions of ever releasing it to the public, it was shown on premium movie channel Epix as a "World Color Premiere" at 10:00 pm EST on August 10, 2014, immediately following the 8:00 pm premiere of the black and white version.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Cannes Film Festival 2013 (2013)
- SoundtracksTheir Pie
(Originally from the motion picture Sweet Land (2005))
Written by Mark Orton
Performed by Mark Orton and Megan Orton
Courtesy of Ali Selim
Featured review
Bruce Dern gives the performance of his life. He is wonderful. He maintains the quality of tuning in and out of reality throughout the film. Typical of someone with dementia, you are never really sure if he's there or not. There is a moment in the film when he drives and you can just see him glow and come alive.
This is not a film for everyone because it moves slow, but true movie buffs will love it.
Filmed in black and white and bleak (if that were a color) it's a son that takes his father on a road trip
It's quietly poignant, with a lot of very funny moments in it. When the mother is in the scene, she steals every one.
The cousins are a riot and the family members are a cast of characters. This is the sort of film that you leave but doesn't leave you.
This is not a film for everyone because it moves slow, but true movie buffs will love it.
Filmed in black and white and bleak (if that were a color) it's a son that takes his father on a road trip
It's quietly poignant, with a lot of very funny moments in it. When the mother is in the scene, she steals every one.
The cousins are a riot and the family members are a cast of characters. This is the sort of film that you leave but doesn't leave you.
- lpatterson83
- Nov 10, 2013
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- Also known as
- Небраска
- Filming locations
- Lincoln, Nebraska, USA(O street bridge)
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Box office
- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $17,654,912
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $140,401
- Nov 17, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $27,682,872
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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