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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget - $40 million. Box Office - $33.4 million.
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* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/JohnCusack took the role because he wanted to work with Creator/AlPacino.
* CaliforniaDoubling: While most of the New York City scenes were filmed on location, the interior scenes of New York City's City Hall were filmed in a mansion in Teaneck, New Jersey.
* MethodActing: Creator/AlPacino spent time with former New York City mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins, as well as then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, to prepare for the role.
* MissingTrailerScene: There's a few of them:
** Leo, an advisor to Mayor Pappas, telling someone how the city is on edge because of the shooting.
** A scene implying a romance between Calhoun and Cogan.
** When Mayor Pappas is delivering his RousingSpeech at the boy's funeral, the trailer has a more subdued take of a couple of scenes.
** There's a scene of Calhoun playing basketball in the park.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MarlonBrando was considered for Mayor Pappas.
** Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/TomCruise, and Creator/BradPitt turned down the role of Kevin Calhoun.
** Creator/PaulSchrader, one of the credited screenwriters on the film, was originally going to direct it.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Ken Lipper, another one of the credited screenwriters on the film, worked as the deputy mayor of finance and economic development under then-mayor Ed Koch.
* CaliforniaDoubling: While most of the New York City scenes were filmed on location, the interior scenes of New York City's City Hall were filmed in a mansion in Teaneck, New Jersey.
* MethodActing: Creator/AlPacino spent time with former New York City mayors Ed Koch and David Dinkins, as well as then-mayor Rudy Giuliani, to prepare for the role.
* MissingTrailerScene: There's a few of them:
** Leo, an advisor to Mayor Pappas, telling someone how the city is on edge because of the shooting.
** A scene implying a romance between Calhoun and Cogan.
** When Mayor Pappas is delivering his RousingSpeech at the boy's funeral, the trailer has a more subdued take of a couple of scenes.
** There's a scene of Calhoun playing basketball in the park.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MarlonBrando was considered for Mayor Pappas.
** Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/TomCruise, and Creator/BradPitt turned down the role of Kevin Calhoun.
** Creator/PaulSchrader, one of the credited screenwriters on the film, was originally going to direct it.
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Ken Lipper, another one of the credited screenwriters on the film, worked as the deputy mayor of finance and economic development under then-mayor Ed Koch.
