Trivia / D.C. Cab

• Billing Displacement: Because the film's release came on the heels of the huge success of Rocky III and The A-Team, Mr. T was/is heavily featured on many promotional covers for this film; So much that even one foreign release of the film was titled Mr. T and Company. While he is an important character, he's not the central one.
  • Several releases also put heavy emphasis on Bill Maher and Irene Cara, both of whom have minimal screen time at best. Cara in particular received fifth billing during the original release for a role that Roger Ebert described as "She gets into a cab, smiles, gives an autograph, and that's it." Cara was at the height of her stardom in 1983 when the movie was released, but today she is probably less known among the cast than Mr. T, Max Gail, Gary Busey, Maher, Adam Baldwin, Paul Rodriguez, Marsha Warfield and Whitman Mayo, making the billing seem odd in retrospect.
• Completely Different Title: The film was retitled Street Fleet for its UK release, it's title there being the reverse of "Fleet Street" which was well known for being the central hub of the English media up until the 1980s when the movie was made and released.
• Creator Backlash: Bill Maher frequently mocks himself for his debut in this movie.
• What Could Have Been: Jim Carrey auditioned for a role. Joel Schumacher discusses this on the Batman Forever DVD Commentary: "He was so brilliant I didn't have a part for him"; that is to say, Carrey had such a strong presence he would have unbalanced the ensemble. Nonetheless, they kept in touch and Carrey eventually appeared in two Schumacher films (Batman Forever and The Number 23; he also was originally cast in Colin Farrell's role in Phone Booth).

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