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A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Allen Garfield
- Howard McDermott
- (as Allen Goorwitz)
Mike Bacarella
- Delaney
- (as Michael Bacarella)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Dan Aykroyd, most of the production crew on Neighbors (1981) was on cocaine throughout filming, with the inevitable result that John Belushi was sucked back into an addiction he had been trying to quit. Belushi had been completely clean and sober during the making of Continental Divide (1981) which he shot just before Neighbors (1981).
- GoofsWhen Souchak rides the Empire Builder back to Wyoming with Nell, the train takes a route the Empire Builder never takes. In the movie, the train goes through Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and then on to Victor, Wyoming, where they get off. The real Empire Builder goes north from Chicago to Milwaukee and then Minneapolis before heading northwest and crossing North Dakota, Montana and Idaho near the Canadian border. It goes nowhere near Iowa or Wyoming.
- Quotes
Ernie Souchak: It's so quiet up here, you could hear a mouse get a hard-on.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the credits, after some mountain shots, there's a sequence of a selection of some of the black-and-white photos of Ernie and/or Nell that Souchak had on his desk.
- SoundtracksTheme from Continental Divide (Never Say Goodbye)
Music by Michael Small
Lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager
Performed by Helen Reddy
Available on MCA Records
Record Produced by Joel Diamond
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John Belushi - who would have turned 58 today - is remembered as Bluto Blutarsky ("Animal House"), Wild Bill Kelso ("1941"), Jake Blues ("The Blues Brothers"), and various "SNL" characters; all totally wacky. In "Continental Divide", he got what was probably his one serious role. Although most people pooh-poohed it, I didn't find it that bad. As a Chicago reporter developing a relationship with an eagle researcher (Blair Brown) in the Rocky Mountains, Belushi got the chance to say that he had one serious role before his untimely death. If that is the movie's only real strength, then so be it. It may be worth seeing just for that.
And if I may add one thing: people need to give "1941" another chance.
And if I may add one thing: people need to give "1941" another chance.
- lee_eisenberg
- Jan 23, 2007
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,578,237
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,218,347
- Sep 20, 1981
- Gross worldwide
- $15,578,237
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