The Comeback Trail
Hollywood has never pulled a stunt like this!
Country
Production
Budget
$25 000 000
Box office
$2 407 255
Director
Actors
Scenario
George Gallo, Josh Posner
Producer
Julie Lott, David E. Ornston, Richard Salvatore, Patrick Hibler, Phil Kim, Joy Sirott Hurwitz, Ryan R. Johnson, Joel Michaely, Vito Di Donato, Andrea Chung
Camera operator
Łukasz Bielan
Composer
Aldo Shllaku
Artist
Stephen J. Lineweaver, Joe Lemmon
Audition
Donald Paul Pemrick, Dean E. Fronk
Editing
Short description
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.
What's left behind the scenes
- The fictional film company Miracle Pictures, with the slogan “If a film is good, it’s a Miracle Picture” (the word translating to “miracle”), first appeared in Allan Arkush and Joe Dante’s comedic thriller “Hollywood Boulevard” (1976), where its owner was played by Dick Miller. It also appeared in the 1987 science fiction comedy “Amazon Women on the Moon” (Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss). Dante, who worked on both films, also directed “Matinee,” about the fictional horror film “Mant,” about a creature that was half-man, half-ant. This film features a poster for the fictional film “Mantula,” about a creature that is half-man, half-tarantula.
- The film was shot in 2019 for release in 2020, and it was indeed released in many countries in 2020, but in the US – only in early 2025.
- The film contains numerous humorous references to Hollywood films in general and Westerns in particular, but special emphasis is placed on “The Searchers” (1956) by John Ford. Duke Montana, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is to a certain extent Cherokee, which is a reference to the character in “The Searchers” played by Jeffrey Hunter, who was also to the same extent Cherokee. Native Americans are played by actors of German origin, which is likely another reference to “The Searchers,” where the tribe’s chief was played by Henry Brandon, who was born in Germany and played many Native Americans throughout his film career. At the end of the film, in the scene where a car passes by a church, there is the famous final shot from “The Searchers” (a sunlit doorway, shot from inside a dark room).
- The fictional film company Miracle Pictures, with the slogan "If the movie is good, it's a Miracle movie," first appeared in the comedy-thriller "Hollywood Boulevard" (1976) by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante, where it was owned by a character played by Dick Miller. It also appeared in the 1987 sci-fi comedy "Amazon Women on the Moon" (Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton, John Landis, Robert K. Weiss). Dante, who worked on both films, also directed "Matinee," a movie about a fictional horror film called "Mant" featuring a creature that was half-human, half-ant. This film shows a poster for another fictional movie, "Mantula," about a creature that was half-human, half-tarantula.
- The film contains numerous humorous references to Hollywood movies in general and Westerns in particular, but special emphasis is placed on John Ford's 'The Searchers' (1956). Duke Montana, played by Tommy Lee Jones, is partially Cherokee, which is a reference to Jeffrey Hunter's character in 'The Searchers', who was also Cherokee to the same extent. The Native Americans are played by actors of German descent, which is likely another nod to 'The Searchers', where the tribal chief was played by Henry Brandon, who was born in Germany and played many Native Americans over his cinematic career. At the end of the film, in the scene where the car drives past a church, there is a recreation of the famous final shot from 'The Searchers' (a sunlit doorway filmed from inside a dark room).
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