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Saved! (2004)

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• Won the Audience Favorite award at the Nashville Film Festival.
  
  
• According to director Brian Dannelly, before production, several fundamentalists working on the film quit. A church, a Christian rock band and the homeowner whose house was to be used for important scenes pulled out of productions because of objections over the film's unflattering content.
  
  
• As Pastor Skip enters the school library to talk to Hilary Faye and the Christian Jewels about Mary, there is a READ poster featuring R.E.M. visible over his shoulder. Michael Stipe is the lead singer of R.E.M. and also co-produced the film.
  
  

• The role of Hilary Faye was originally given to 'Anne Hathaway' , but funding fell through and Hathaway was due to start Ella Enchanted (2004). This lead to Hathaway being replaced by Mandy Moore.
  
  
• According to producer Sandy Stern, the film had gone through "about 200 rewrites". The original script had Hilary Faye, played by Mandy Moore, shooting up the school.
  
  
• In the original script, Hilary Faye and Cassandra were supposed speak in tongues to each other.
  
  
• The woman who coached Mandy Moore and Eva Amurri on speaking in tongues gave them several phrases that they could repeat, including "she bought a Hyundai" and "untie my bow tie."
  
  
• All the prom songs performed by the Christian rock band were actually by The Replacements, a rock band from the 1980s.
  
  
• The porn magazine that Dean hides under his mattress features Chris Steele on the cover.
  
  
• The producers went through normal channels to try to obtain the rights to include a piece of the title song from the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar", but all their requests were denied. Finally, a friend gave them Tim Rice's personal phone number, and after seeing and loving the movie, Rice agreed to grant them the right to use the song.
  
  
• The Hebrew on Cassandra's necklace (visible during the Christmas food court scene) says "Cassandra".
  
  
• The gun that Hillary Faye uses at the target range is an IMI Jericho
  
  
• Hilary Faye's License says JC Girl
  
  
• When Mary is walking down the street, right before Hillary Faye and her friends try to exorcise her, The Exorcist (1973) theme music is playing.
  
  

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