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Nate Pope (Forest Whitaker) is an Amateur Radio operator with the call sign WB6QLF. QLF is amateur shorthand for "I am sending with my left foot", a reference to someone whose Morse Code sending skill is very bad. This is normally sent as a question "QLF?" meaning "Are you sending with your left foot?" to an operator who is very difficult to understand in Morse.

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Assuming the man in Bob's question is from California, then the question is answered at 12:12pm on July 25th, 1996.

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Old town Auburn, CA was used for the scenes in town. Most of the businesses there are still in operation, and thrive off of the tourism generated by the movie to this day.

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Kyra Sedgwick has also acted alonside Sean O'Bryen and Tom Genaro in another film - Heart and Souls (1993)