Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Trivia
The film is something of a family affair with John Cassavetes directing his wife Gena Rowlands, his mother Katherine Cassavetes, his brother-in-law David Rowlands, his mother-in-law Lady Rowlands and his children Xan Cassavetes and Zoe R. Cassavetes.
One of eleven movies that John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands made together. The other films are A Child Is Waiting (1963), Faces (1968), Machine Gun McCain (1969), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Two-Minute Warning (1976), Opening Night (1977), Shadows (1958), Gloria (1980), Tempest (1982) and Love Streams (1984).
Reportedly, after the movie had originally launched, the Universal Pictures studio cut a sequence at the start of the picture. This allegedly breached their contract with writer-director John Cassavetes. No video release on either DVD or video-cassette has ever featured the edited out scene.
The movie was green-lit by the Universal Pictures studio during the early 1970s in an attempt apparently to replicate the success of Easy Rider (1969).
One of seven cinema movie collaborations of Seymour Cassel as an actor and John Cassavetes as a writer-director. The films are Faces (1968), Shadows (1958), Love Streams (1984), Opening Night (1977), Too Late Blues (1961), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976).
The director John Cassavetes appeared in the film in a role that was uncredited in the cast list.
Both of the mothers of Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes appeared in the film in acting roles. These were Lady Rowlands, who played her real life daughter's mother, and Katherine Cassavetes respectively. Both also appeared in the Rowlands-Cassavetes collaborations of Opening Night (1977) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974).
Actress Gena Rowlands and writer-director John Cassavetes in real life were married.
In the last scene, the baby Minnie (Gena) is holding is her youngest daughter in real life, Zoe Cassavetes.
In 1964, Seymour Cassel appeared as a parking attendant on a segment of the series Burke's Law: Who Killed Annie Foran? (1964), which co-starred John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands
Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
Seymour Cassel portrayed a character, Seymour Moskowitz, who had the same first name as his own.
The sixth feature film directed by John Cassavetes.
The name of the place that Minnie (Gena Rowlands) worked as a museum curator at was "The Los Angeles County Museum".
