Vince Gilligan originally wrote the screenplay for this film in 1989, for a screenwriting class he was taking at New York University.
Robin Williams was originally going to play Red Jackson, but dropped out shortly before filming began.
When the Jake Busey character refers to a show where a woman kills her husband with a leg of lamb and then feeds it to the detectives, he's referring to an episode of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
This dark comedy of murderous mayhem has many scenes set at a fast food joint, much like Vince Gilligan's best known writing: Breaking Bad (2008).
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