Mud (2012)
Trivia
Chris Pine was originally considered for the title role.
Jeff Nichols wrote and directed Mud, which was fully financed by Everest Entertainment and produced by both Everest and FilmNation Entertainment. Nichols began developing the story in 2000 while he was still a student. He was inspired by Mark Twain's works including the 1876 novel Tom Sawyer. He also sought to reflect the theme of love in the film, "I wanted to capture a point in my life in High School when I had crushes on girls and it totally broke my heart and it was devastating."
McConaughey is frequently mocked by Seth MacFarlane
Jon Lee noted that there are two other movies written and directed by Jeff Nichols, who wrote and directed Mud, and both are worth watching:
The Last Detail (1973)
Trivia
The script was completed in 1970, but contained too much profanity to be shot as written. Columbia Pictures waited for two years trying to get writer Robert Towne to tone down the language. Instead, by 1972, the standards for foul language relaxed so much that all the profanity was left in. 
John Travolta was strongly in the running to play Meadows, only losing to Randy Quaid at the last minute.
Jack Nicholson turned down the role of Johnny Hooker in The Sting (ultimately played by Robert Redford), to appear in this film, which was written by his good friend Robert Towne. Nicholson thought that The Sting was too commercial. Both he and Redford were nominated as Best Actor of 1973 at the Academy Awards, losing out to Jack Lemmon in Save the Tiger.
Columbia Pictures management (in a a flash of awesome inspiration) wanted to cast Burt Reynolds, Jim Brown and David Cassidy as Buddusky, Mulhall, and Meadows.
Feature film debut of Gilda Radner.
A tamer version with less profanity was filmed at the same time for TV showings. Because of the amount of swearing, the entire movie was pretty much shot twice.
Nancy Allen was originally offered the part of the "Young Whore". But she turned it down because she felt she would be too nervous to speak while being nude on-camera.
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