Trivia / Every Time We Say Goodbye

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• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $3.7 million. Box office, $278,623.
• Creator Backlash: Surprisingly averted. Tom Hanks loved working on the film because it was less stressful and demanding than the Hollywood films he previously worked on (since there was no concern about studio parking, Executive Meddling, and big sets), and he found the Israeli culture and locations fascinating.
  • In a 1989 interview with ''Playboy'', Tom was asked to give brief critiques on all the films he starred in up to that point, and when the interviewer got to Hanks’ film Every Time We Say Goodbye, Tom had this to say:
  “Disappeared without a trace, even though it’s probably the most visually beautiful movie I’ve made.”
• Dawson Casting: A 22-year-old Cristina Marsillach plays 18-year-old Sarah.
  • A 27-year-old Anat Atzmon plays a 21-year-old Victoria.
  • A 34-year-old Moni Moshonov plays a 28-year-old Nessim.
• Fake Nationality:
  • Although Nessim, Victoria, and Sarah’s parents are Sephardi Jews, they are all played by Israeli actors of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Moni Moshonov (Nessim) and Avner Hizkiyahu (Sarah’s father) are of Bulgarian Jewish ancestry (the latter was born in Bulgaria before immigrating to Israel in 1949); Anat Atzmon (Victoria) is of Polish Jewish ancestry; and Gila Almagor (Sarah’s mother) is of Polish Jewish and German Jewish ancestry.
  • Subverted for Cristina Marsillach in that she is Spanish, but not Jewish like her character Sarah is.
• Tom Hanks Syndrome: Another early example from the Trope Namer (which was released four months after Hanks’ first dramatic film Nothing in Common).
• Working Title: Love Is Ever Young, and Love Hurts.