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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) More at IMDbPro »

• Title taken from the Irish toast: "May you have food and raiment, a soft pillow for your head; may you be 40 years in heaven, before the devil knows you're dead."
  
  
• In the original script, Andrew and Hank Hanson were not brothers. Sidney Lumet made this change to increase the drama of the movie.
  
  
• In the original script, Gina and Andrew Hanson had a child. Sidney Lumet removed this character from the final script.
  
  
• The speech that Sarah Livingston (Hank's Daughter, Danielle) says in her school play is the final lines of the Shakespeare play, The Tragedy of King Lear, spoken by Edgar. There are a few similarities between the play and the movie.
  
  
• A Scrabble board appears on a table in one of the first scenes with the father. The word "Doubt" is prominently displayed on the board. The film Doubt (2008/I) also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, was released a year after this film.
  
  
• The high-heeled shoes that Marisa Tomei wears in her nude scene with Ethan Hawke are her own shoes.
  
  
• One of two films released in the same year co-starring Philip Seymour Hoffman which center around sibling relationships. The other is The Savages (2007)
  
  

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