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Hero (1992/I) More at IMDbPro »

• 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 concurrently released _Cop and 1/2 (1993)_.
  
  
• Bernie saved 54 people
  
  
• In her acceptance speech of the Silver Microphone, Gale Gayley takes out an onion and starts peeling it off. This is a direct reference to Henrik Ibsen's play "Peer Gynt".
  
  

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