Cultural References
- Lawrence Durrell—song by Mick Thomas
- California Split—Gwen Welles' character is shown reading the book, the movie has several parallels to the novel
- Stranger than Fiction—The Alexandria Quartet is briefly referred to in a scene between Dustin Hoffman and Will Ferrell in the movie Stranger Than Fiction (2006), the following is written on the chalkboard behind them: "Mountolive's ear aches, Liza's blindness, Clea's amputated hand, Leila's smallpox, Justine's stroke, Pombal's gout," this is juxtaposed against Harold Crick's (Farrell) impending, "literary" doom
- Flirting—A paperback copy of Durrell's Justine sits on her vanity while Thandi Newton smokes at her mirror, echoing a scene in Justine
- Wonder Boys —In the novel by Michael Chabon, one of the characters is said to carry a photo of Lawrence Durrell in her wallet
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