Joe Dirt
He Came. He Cleaned. He Conquered.
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Country
Production
Budget
$34 000 000
Box office
$30 987 695
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Robert Simonds, Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo
Camera operator
Composer
Waddy Wachtel
Artist
Perry Andelin Blake
Audition
Roger Mussenden
Editing
Peck Prior
Whole Team (85)
Whole Team (85)
Short description
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
What's left behind the scenes
- Rosanne Barr and Gary Busey were initially cast as the main character's parents. However, Barr chose to leave the project before filming was completed. Consequently, director Danny Gordon reshot all the parental scenes with Caroline Aaron and Fred Ward as Joe Dirt's mother and father.
- Joe Dirt (played by David Spade) reads a list of names on a tour bus that is the same as the one appearing in John Hughes' comedy 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (1986).
- The character of Joe Dirt is to some extent based on a certain Ryan Taylor, who was a childhood friend of the lead actor, David Spade.
- The prop alligator was created by Amalgamated Dynamics (a company specializing in animatronics and special makeup effects for film, television, and commercials) based on the reptile from Joe Johnston's adventure comedy "Jumanji" (1995). When director Danny Gordon complained that the alligator looked unrealistic, CGI was used to make the reptile blink.
- Screenwriters David Spade and Fred Wolf wanted Christopher Walken to play the role of Clem so badly that, upon learning there was a budget shortfall for his fee, they covered the remaining amount out of their own pockets. Shortly thereafter, Amy Pascal from Columbia Pictures reimbursed them.
- A hot air balloon descends near an oil derrick labeled 'Scotch Oil.' This was the name of the oil company owned by the family of Chris Farley (a friend of the main character) in Wisconsin.
- According to David Spade, when sewage from a septic tank hit him, he asked, "Is that all? Is there more?" This line wasn't in the script, but the actor actually asked director Danny Gordon how much longer it would last, and it lasted for a full minute.
- In one scene, the main character rams through a barrier with his car, but in the next moment, the barrier is shown completely intact.
- Originally, the scene where hot dogs are thrown at the main character was significantly longer. It was decided to cut it because test audiences liked David Spade's character and didn't want to see him treated that way.
- In one of the scenes featuring the main character and the alligator, a cable is momentarily visible on screen.
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