Trivia / The Book of Henry

• Box Office Bomb: Made just $4.4 million against a $10 million budget.
• The Cast Showoff: Maddie Ziegler is a well-known dancer and her character Christina dances for the school talent show.
• Playing with Character Type: Naomi Watts often plays a lot of Mama Bear types or else competent, independent women. Here she starts out as a ditzy slacker who eventually matures into her usual type.
• Saved from Development Hell: The screenplay was written twenty years before the film was made, which does account for the lack of modern technology in the plot.
• Star-Derailing Role: The film's huge failure incredibly derailed Naomi Watts's film career, who has now since then did low budget direct-to-DVD flicks and television roles after her film career start going down the drain in the early 2010s, with Dream House, Diana, The Prodigies, Top Cat: The Movie, Movie 43, The Sea of Trees, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, its sequel Allegiant, and Shut In becoming huge critical and commercial failures for Watts's film career during the 2010s, despite her acclaimed performances in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), J. Edgar and The Impossible were both critical and commercial successes, making her in recent years one of the 2000s actors who flopped in the 2010s as a laughing stock.
• What Could Have Been: An earlier version of the script was a straight Black Comedy, which Trevorrow did not wish to make.

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