Trivia / The Thing Called Love

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $14 million. Box office, $1,029,721.
• The Cast Show Off: Sandra Bullock performed the song "Heaven Knocking on My Door", which she also wrote.
• Cast the Expert: K.T. Oslin, who was a real-life country singer, plays the owner of the Bluebird Café, and other country musicians appear in the movie as well.
• Invisible Advertising: Paramount only distributed the film in the South and left it for dead in a crowded summer as they felt that the film had very limited appeal outside of country music fans. When Peter Bogdanovich found out about this, he was not pleased (as he felt it was one of his better films). Eventually, the film was re-marketed as an art film after River Phoenix's death in some markets but audiences still didn't show.
• What Could Have Been: Linda Lou apparently had a thing for Kyle — who never realized. She tells him about it on their departure.
  Linda: You know, there's something that you never understood about me ... You could have had me for a song.

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