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• Mark Wahlberg stayed in Bobby Shatford's room above the Crow's Nest bar and even checked ID's at the door one night.
  
  
• Three days of exterior shots were filmed on the edge of Hurricane Floyd for the early portions of the storm.
  
  
• Though the Crow's Nest is a real bar in Gloucester, it is not located on the dock as is depicted in the movie. The exterior was simply a facade erected by the filmmakers.
  
  

• Towards the end of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio's emotional speech in the church at Gloucester, her microphone picked up her pounding heartbeat. Director Wolfgang Petersen liked the effect, so it remains audible on the soundtrack.
  
  
• Michael Ironside, who plays Bob Brown, the "Andrea Gail"'s owner, was apparently mistaken for the character he plays by one of the town locals.
  
  
• Nicolas Cage was originally named as the lead to play local fisherman Bobby Shatford but was forced to back out because of other commitments.
  
  
• Legal Sea Foods, a Boston-based restaurant, purchased the Lady Grace, the ship used as the Andrea Gail in the film. It is now in Gloucester, Massachusetts as a floating memorial to fishermen who have lost their lives at sea.
  
  
• The storm in the movie was formed by the remnants of Hurricane Grace in late October and early November 1991.
  
  
• Although not listed in the official Writer's Guild of America information, Bo Goldman received an on-screen-credit for having co-written the script.
  
  
• The family members of Billy Tyne and Dale Murphy did not like the movie. In 2000, they sued Time Warner and the other production companies in federal district court in Florida. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants in 2002. The plaintiffs appealed. In turn, the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit could not make up its mind on how to interpret a key Florida statute. The case was sent or "certified" to the Florida Supreme Court to resolve that limited question.
  
  
• The font used on the side of the sailing ship Mistral as well as on the life preservers is "Mistral," designed by Roger Excoffon in 1953. The font is also sold as "Aeolus," which is the name of the tanker shown losing cargo in the storm.
  
  
• The first movie the crew of the Andrea Gail watches right before Bobby confronts Billy, is Pale Rider (1985).
  
  

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