- Creator Killer: Tom Schulman previously won an Academy Award for writing Dead Poets Society and continued to have a decent screenwriting career afterwards. Then this film, which was also his directorial debut, bombed badly, whittling his career down. Welcome to Mooseport was the last film he had any significant involvement in for nearly two decades after it flopped as well in 2004.
- Star-Derailing Role: This flop killed the careers of three actors.
- Joe Pesci was pretty successful early in The '90s after winning an Academy Award for Goodfellas: following it with the Lethal Weapon sequels, the first two Home Alone films, My Cousin Vinny, and Casino. Pesci's star power was then extinguished in 1997 when 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag bombed, followed by the equally disastrous Gone Fishin' the same year. After Lethal Weapon 4 the next year, he retired from acting barring a few occasional gigs (notably, his Oscar-nominated role in The Irishman, though coaxing him into coming out of retirement was reportedly a struggle, and he didn't even bother attending the ceremony).
- Andy Comeau was an up-and-coming actor before this film flopped. He worked sporadically on the screen in the following years afterwards, notably in season 4 of House on a guest run. However, this was the only film where he played a lead role.
- Kristy Swanson saw the damage to her career after The Phantom exacerbated further with this film's failure. Both flops combined facilitated her decline into smaller parts on screen, though she did land a small but pivotal role in the Adam Sandler comedy Big Daddy.
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