Mississippi Grind or California Split
Coincidence?
shareCame here to ask the same thing. Haven't seen California Split, but I was wondering over the movies here when I saw the poster for it, which is practically identical, (in most aspects), to MG. Is it a remake, homage, coincidence? Legal?
The filmmakers were certainly influenced by Altman's movie, they talk about it in interviews. Part of what they wanted to evoke by setting the film in these small midwestern cities is that in some sense the 1970s still exists in such places. The name "Mississippi Grind" was presumably chosen, at least in part, as a parallel of "California Split", and I don't know if the filmmakers would have had any hand in the poster but undoubtedly it is an homage.
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