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Henry & June (1990) More at IMDbPro »

• Philip Kaufman actually met Anaïs Nin in 1962.
  
  
• Director Kaufman first came into contact with Miller's works in the '50s while at the University of Chicago. He recalled that [i]Tropic of Cancer[/i] (mentioned in the film as the book Henry is in the process of writing) "was the ultimate secret book everybody was reading".
  
  
• The movie was shot in 15 weeks in the autumn of 1989.
  
  
• This movie precipitated the creation of the NC-17 MPAA rating, which it earned in place of an "X". The two to three second shot of Anais looking at an explicit illustrated postcard involving a Japanese woman and a squid, less than three minutes into the opening credits of the film, was the cause of the NC-17 rating.
  
  
• The film that Henry and Anais go to see is Un chien andalou (1929), a film by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel . Bunuel's son, Juan Luis Buñuel, plays the publisher/editor in the film's opening scene.
  
  
• Fred Ward wore blue contact lenses over his brown eyes to better resemble Henry Miller.
  
  
• Alec Baldwin was originally cast as Henry Miller but pulled out two weeks prior to filming.
  
  

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