Throw It In!: While filming the sequence where Harry runs back to his van, Brandon Maggart actually slipped and fell on the icy road before picking himself up and continuing to run like nothing happened and director Lewis Jackson opted to keep it in.
David Rasche (of Sledge Hammer! fame) tried for the role of Harry.
Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone) tried for the role of Harry's sister-in-law.
Word of God: According to the director, Harry dies when his van crashes, and the film ends with his Dying Dream: he escapes the people chasing after him, and his van flies into the night like Santa's sleigh.
Assorted Trivia
The reporter Ricardo Bauma was a caricature of at the time a little known reporter Geraldo Rivera