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Cast: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle,Jada Pinkett Smith,Liv Tyler.
Director: Mike Binder.
Writers: Mike Binder.
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Reign over me is about Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) who lives in his own little world after loosing his family in one of the planes in 9/11 and Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) who lives the perfect live with his beautiful wife and two daughter but still feels like there is something missing from his life.

Charlie and Alan were roommates in colleage but have not seen eachother for years. One day Alan spots charlie and even though Charlie seems not to remember Alan at first they grow a great friendship and since Alan never knew charlies family he does not ask alot of questions about them so he becomes the only one charlie lets into his world where he collects records and is constantly remodeling his kitchen.

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Trivia Provided by The Internet Movie Database.

• Exterior of Manhattan Criminal Courthouse is actually Baruch College located in NYC. Production paid a little under $7,000 (as well as clean up costs) to the school for the use of their exterior.
• Mike Binder wrote the lead role with Tom Cruise in mind, who turned it down.
• Some interior scenes were filmed in Del Rio Diner on Kings Highway in Brooklyn, New York. The diner shut down for two weeks and installed flat screen TV’s for the production.
• Brad Pitt was considered for the role of Charlie Fineman.
• During the scenes in the hospital, Charlie is wearing a Tamakwa t-shirt, an obvious reference to Mike Binder and his previous film Indian Summer.
• The video game that Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle play is Wanda to kyozô (2005) (VG) (Shadow of the Colossus). It’s a game about a man who slays colossi in an attempt to bring a woman back to life. Early scripts had Sandler play a simple, 1980s-style game, until editor Jeremy Roush recalled that his own father watched the movie Aliens (1986) obsessively as a “thinly veiled kind of Vietnam veteran kind of story”. Seeing the imagery of the colossi falling, he realized “someone who was dealing with 9/11 would be engrossed by a giant that keeps collapsing over and over again,” so he demonstrated it to the director and actors. With the approval of the game’s director Fumito Ueda, it was included in the movie.
• During the scenes in which Adam Sandler is hospitalized, he is wearing a shirt featuring a beaver insignia; the shirt is from Camp Tamakwa, the childhood summer camp of Mike Binder, as well as Sam Raimi.
• When Alan first enters Charlie’s apartment, seen on the table next to his projector for his TV / Playstation 2 is the case for the Playstation 2 game God of War (2005) (VG).
• Jennifer Garner was attached to play the role of “Angela” but left the project a few weeks before filming began.
• In the left bottom corner of the receptionist’s desk is a glimpse of a postcard size sticker that has the numbers 01.20.09 which is President George W. Bush’s last day in office.
• The Playstation 2 game ‘God of War’ is seen beside Charlie’s projector. The game is about a man who seeks revenge on the god of war for tricking him into slaughtering his wife and daughter.
• The scooter itself is just powerful enough to make it technically illegal in New York City, which permits electric scooters but has banned engine-powered ones like Charlie’s. He’s a bit of an outlaw.
• At first Adam Sandler declined his part because he was terrified of it, although he thought the character was incredible after he read the script. A month later, he reread the script and decided that he wanted to do it.
• Every song that’s played in the background is either played on Charlie’s iPod or has its album mentioned by Charlie.
• At one point Javier Bardem was going to play Don Cheadle’s role of Alan Johnson. Scheduling conflicts led to Cheadle being cast in the role instead.