Taste of Cinema's list description: One of the great tricks of cinema is making the impossible seem not only possible, but effortless and incidental, "as if by magic." Little do we know, as average movie goers, what great toils and sacrifices go into the production of a given film.
Whether it's a big-budget adventure film like The Lord of the Rings or a small independent feature like Annie Hall, the tale of how the film traveled from idea to script to shooting and finally onto the silver screen remains, more often than not, a mystery. Every once in a while, however, a film experiences such hardship, difficulty, or even just enough bad press to overshadow the move entirely.
