Trivia
In the scene where
Teller is being held down with ropes by audience members, the one closest to
Penn Jillette is
James Randi, aka "The Amazing Randi". A close friend and mentor, Randi wrote the book "The Faith Healers" and exposed psychic doctors to the public, a driving plot point in the film.
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Quotes
[
after Penn gets shot]
Woman in Parking Lot:
In the shoulder, huh? Well, at that range you were lucky.
Penn:
No! I just got shot, that's not lucky. Lucky is winning the lottery.
Woman in Parking Lot:
Hey, aren't you that guy who goes on TV and asks people to kill him?
Penn:
I didn't ask people to kill me, I said I wished someone were trying to kill me.
Woman in Parking Lot:
You said that on national TV? There's a lot of nuts out there! You're lucky I don't have a gun or I'd blow your fucking brains out.
Penn:
Yeah, I'm the luckiest guy in the world. Mr. Lucky just got shot in ...
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The first time I watched this movie, I was disappointed. The laughs, it seemed, had been few and far between. After watching it again, however, some of the more subtle jokes caught my attention (in a word, Teller's facial expressions), and I found myself watching it yet a third time, and actually enjoying it. In other words, it "grew" on me.