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Release year: 1991

Storyline

The tumultuous relationship between the co-hosts of a morning news segment is explored from the point of view of both the man and the woman.

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Directors

Writers

Brian Hohlfeld

Cast

Kevin Bacon — Dan Hanson
Elizabeth Perkins — Lorie Bryer
Nathan Lane — Wally Thurman
Anthony LaPaglia — Mark

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Did you know

• The genesis of this film was generated from a night out in Paris, France where the film's two directors, Marisa Silver and Ken Kwapis, were both telling the story of how the pair had gotten together. They noticed that their stories were different in perspective, so they decided to make a movie based on this high concept, and shortly afterwards, contacted the film's Screenwriter Brian Hohlfeld to develop the movie, then pitched the picture to Paramount, who gave them the go-ahead.

• Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver, who filmed "He Said", and "She Said", respectively, each watched each other's segments being filmed, so they would be cogniscent of how to vary each's own segments from the other. However, each when watching the other's segment being shot, were not allowed to talk to the actors during it.

• The framing story which has Lorie (Elizabeth Perkins) throw a coffee cup at Dan (Kevin Bacon) functions to differentiate the "present" time-frame of the picture from the "past" time-frame as it results in him having a sore requiring a bandage, thereby acting as a visual signifier to the audience that whenever he appears with this, that it is the present and not the past.