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A Good Year (2006) More at IMDbPro »

• Max Skinner's wardrobe is largely influenced by Russell Crowe's own uncle, David William Crowe.
  
  
• Director Ridley Scott came up with the basic story that author Peter Mayle wrote in the book on which this film's based upon. When the book was published, Mayle's ideas were actually very different from Scott's original premise. Scott then decided to film the story as he envisioned it from the very beginning.
  
  
• Aaron Eckhart originally had a role in this film, but dropped out.
  
  
• The car that Max Skinner drives is the smart fortwo cabriolet in the pulse trim. The colour is stream green with the black tridion safety cell.
  
  
• The book Christie borrows from Max is "Death in Venice" by German writer Thomas Mann.
  
  
• According to director/producer Ridley Scott, every scene of the film was shot within eight minutes of his home in Provence, where he has been living for 15 years.
  
  
• Duflot's dog is named Tati, presumably after the great French clown and actor-director Jacques Tati. Scenes from some of Tati's films are in the montage shown during the romantic "Boum" sequence.
  
  
• Max Skinner, while driving in France, twice taunts road cyclists by shouting "Lance Armstrong", the name of the American racing cyclist who won the Tour de France from 1999 to 2005.
  
  

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