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• Career Resurrection: For Richard Gere. After he hit a slump in the mid-80's when King David flopped, this film and Pretty Woman made him a bankable star once more.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: This is Richard Gere's favorite movie of his own, despite his feud with Andy García. He later worked with Mike Figgis on Mr. Jones.
• Focus Group Ending: The original ending of the movie was different. After the entire scene where Peck kills Arrocases, and wounds Wallace and Raymond taking her to the hospital, Raymond calls his wife Kathy, to tell her to lock the door, fearing that Peck will come after her. Peck, however, manages to sneak into their house, and starts terrorizing her. He makes her take his shoe off and start cleaning his wounded foot, while at the same time, he starts talking to her in very perverse, sexual way. When Raymond finally gets home, Peck is holding Kathy and keeps her mouth covered, so that she can't warn him, and then he gets shot by Peck. As Peck smiles at him, and prepares to kill Kathy, heavily wounded Raymond manages to run at him, crashing both of them out the window and into the swimming pool. Peck tries to drown Raymond, but Raymond manages to get his gun and shoots Peck, killing him, but he almost ends up drowning. Kathy then jumps into the pool and manages to get him out, and after desperate attempts to revive him and screaming at him not to die, he wakes up, vomits and as he does so, Peck's dead body bobs out right next to them. Kathy starts laughing after Raymond revives, and the two of them then hold each other, as the ambulance is heard coming. According to what director Mike Figgis said in his book Liebestraum, this ending was removed and changed, because it didn't test well with audience during test screening of his original cut of the film. This is why Figgis wrote and filmed a new ending for the final theatrical version. However, several parts of the original ending are shown in theatrical and television trailers of the film, and until this day, remain the only available parts of it.
• Hostility on the Set: Richard Gere and Andy García didn't get along during filming. Some of the scenes in which they were required to hit each other, particularly the confrontation in the elevator, were allegedly for real. Garcia subsequently refused to attend the wrap party.
• Missing Trailer Scene: The theatrical and television trailers show several alternate and deleted scenes. Alternate edit of the first scene between Raymond and his IAD boss, a deleted dialogue scene where Raymond is told that if he goes after Peck and doesn't get him he's dead in the department and if he does get him "it could be even worse", a deleted scene showing Peck calling someone and asking them for information about Raymond, a deleted conversation scene between Raymond and Peck who are in some bar drinking and talking about how people want to be bad and how cops want to be bad worst of all while at the same time Peck's hooker/snitch is performing striptease. Several parts of the original ending are also shown; Raymond calling Kathy and telling her to lock the door, Kathy finds Peck in her home holding a gun and he tells her not to say anything, Peck telling her to take his shoe off and Peck shooting Raymond while holding Kathy and Raymond running at him, crashing both of them out the window. Some promotional stills also show these and some other deleted scenes.
• Playing Against Type: This was one of the few times that Richard Gere played a villain.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Richard Dean Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Jeff Bridges, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Willem Dafoe, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Jeff Goldblum, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Don Johnson, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Keaton, Nick Nolte, Al Pacino, Christopher Reeve, Kurt Russell, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ron Silver, Sylvester Stallone, John Travolta, and Bruce Willis were considered for and turned down the role of Dennis Peck.
  • Michael Biehn was considered for the role of Van Stretch.

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