When Bernard is talking to his son on the payphone, his son is watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Mariah Carey originally recorded her #1 hit single, "Hero," for this movie but the filmmakers did not think the power ballad was a good fit. The word "fuck" and its derivatives are said 11 times, highly unusual for a non-R-rated theatrical release, post-1984. The original working title was "Hero and a Half" which had to be changed because of the con ...[Read Story ]