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The film is based on Detective Chuck Adamson's pursuit of serial criminal Neil McCauley in the 1960s.

According to the featurettes Pacino, DeNiro and the Conversation and The Making of Heat: True Crime, included in the special edition DVD, which includes a taped interview with Adamson, the scene of McCauley and Hanna in the restaurant was also based on a real life event.

Adamson met the real McCauley in a coffee shop and openly discussed the possible course of future events.

The scene in which McCauley abandons the precious metal heist after hearing a noise was also based on a real event.

McCauley abandoned the score after one of Adamson's officers, positioned on the top floor of a building McCauley and his crew were breaking into, broke protocol to go to the toilet.

McCauley heard, and withdrew.