A History of Violence Trivias

When William Orser drives the car in front of the office at the beginning of the movie, the boom and some crewmembers are reflected in the front fender.

Early in the movie, Tom and his family are sitting to breakfast. Tom pours some orange juice into his glass and sets the pitcher down. The view cuts away, but when it comes back the glass is much fuller than it was before.

For the sex scene on the stairs, David Cronenberg was concerned about the two actors getting hurt on the hard wooden steps. He asked his stunt man whether or not he had any stunt pads to soften up the stairs. The stunt man laughed, saying that in the twenty years he had been working as a stunt man, no director had ever asked him for stunt pads for a sex scene. Pads were not used for most of the scene however, and in the shot when Edie is naked on the bed with bruises visible on her back, make-up was used to hide the amount of bruises the actress received from the scene.

The scene in the restaurant where Tom foils the robbery was cut to some extent. The original cut had the younger shooter being shot over seven times and having the older shooter being shot in the head twice. It was cut, not because of the MPAA, but because of Cronenberg himself. Cronenberg thought the scene was way too much and thought it glorified violence, which he was against.

When Tom is on his way to Philadelphia, he passes a road sign that indicates the maximum speed limit is 90. This stretch of highway is clearly located in Canada.

When the camera cranes down on the black car as it's being pulled over, the camera is reflected in the driver's window.

The surnames given to the bad guys at the beginning of the film (Leland and Orser) are a reference to character actor Leland Orser (perpetrator of "Lust" in Se7en (1995)).

The fictitious town that the film is set in (Millbrook, Indiana) is named after the town where the film was actually shot (Millbrook, Ontario, Canada). The scenes set in Philadelphia were actually shot in Toronto, Canada.

At the end when they are sitting down at the table the corn and peas switch places on Sarah's plate between shots.

When Tom defends himself from being garroted in his brother's house, his hand is clearly injured and bleeding. When he washes himself next morning, there is no mark on his hand.