Where to watch The English Patient (1996)

Trivia & production notes

• 20th Century Fox pulled out of the production just three weeks before filming began, prompting Harvey Weinstein to acquire worldwide rights for Miramax Films for $27.5 million.
• Cast and crew agreed to salary deferrals totalling $10 million to help the film get made, but more than three years after release, many were still waiting to receive their deferred payments.
• Producer Saul Zaentz sued Miramax Films in 2006 claiming $20 million related to the film's finances, but the case remained unresolved at the time of his death in 2014.
• Anthony Minghella was brought onto the project after producer Saul Zaentz saw his film Truly, Madly, Deeply and wanted to work with him.
• Walter Murch, editor of the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now, initially dreaded editing The English Patient due to its multiple flashbacks and time frames, but discovered the editing possibilities once he began working on the project.
• The final cut of the film features over 40 temporal transitions, with editor Walter Murch working closely with author Michael Ondaatje to develop an approach to the complex editing.
• The camp crash scene was created using a half-size scale model rather than full-scale filming.
• The film was shot on location in Tunisia and Italy.
• The English Patient became the highest-grossing film in Miramax's history with a worldwide gross of $232 million.
• The Seinfeld episode The English Patient satirized the film by depicting the character Elaine being shunned by friends and coworkers for disliking it.

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