In Big Fish (2003), Billy Crudup played the estranged son of a storytelling travelling salesman. In Hello, Tomorrow, he plays a storytelling travelling salesman who is trying to build a relationship with his estranged son.
Billy Crudup and Hank Azaria both starred in a Michael Mann movie, Crudup was in Enemigos públicos (2009) and Azaria was in Fuego contra fuego (1995).