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** A disfigured man attacks Jacob with knife. This scene was originally in the beginning where, after he's almost run over by the subway train, Jacob goes into the men's room where he finds one man raping another. A scared Jacob then escapes from the subway.

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** A disfigured man attacks Jacob with a knife. This scene was originally in the beginning where, after he's almost run over by the subway train, Jacob goes into the men's room where he finds one man raping another. A scared Jacob then escapes manages to escape from the subway.subway only after one of the men pulls a knife on him.
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** A disfigured man attacks Jacob with knife, this scene was originally in the beginning where after he is almost run over by subway train Jacob goes into men's room where he finds one man raping another while second one pulls a knife on him. Scared Jacob then escapes from the subway.

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** A disfigured man attacks Jacob with knife, this knife. This scene was originally in the beginning where where, after he is he's almost run over by the subway train train, Jacob goes into the men's room where he finds one man raping another while second one pulls a knife on him. Scared another. A scared Jacob then escapes from the subway.
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** A longer version of "Hospital From Hell" scene. While he is on gurney pushed through some hallway Jacob asks; "Where are you taking me? Where am i?"

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** A longer version of "Hospital From Hell" scene. While he is on gurney pushed through some hallway Jacob asks; "Where are you taking me? Where am i?"I?"



** Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for Jezzie.

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** Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/DemiMoore, Creator/DemiMoore and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for Jezzie.
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/MacaulayCulkin appears as Jacob's son Gabriel, despite him being a fairly important character he was not credited, this may have been due to difficulties with his father and manager Kit Culkin.

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* UncreditedRole: Creator/MacaulayCulkin appears as Jacob's son Gabriel, but despite him being a fairly important character he was not credited, this credited. This may have been due to difficulties with his father and manager Kit Culkin.

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* DeletedScene: In original script, there was a scene where Jacob burns down some army headquarters building in fit of rage. This scene was filmed but deleted and was never released, although a picture of Jacob holding the torch and gasoline can from this deleted scene was shown in Bravo's ''Series/OneHundredScariestMovieMoments'' where the film is discussed.

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* DeletedScene: In original script, there was a scene where Jacob burns down some army headquarters building in fit of rage. This scene was filmed but deleted and was never released, although a picture of Jacob holding the torch and gasoline can from this deleted scene was shown in Bravo's ''Series/OneHundredScariestMovieMoments'' ''100 Scariest Movie Moments'' where the film is discussed.
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** Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.

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** Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.
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* MissingTrailerScene: The teaser, theatrical and TV trailers show several scenes deleted from original cut;

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* MissingTrailerScene: The teaser, theatrical and TV trailers show several scenes deleted from original cut;cut:
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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Film/HomeAlone Macauley Culkin]] has an uncredited role as Jacob's son.
** How about Creator/LewisBlack showing up for three seconds as the doctor who comes to help when Jacob has his mortally high fever?
** Eriq La Salle (''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Benton) and Creator/VingRhames play two of Jacob's fellow veterans, before either of their actors had those roles.
** Creator/JasonAlexander also has a small role as the lawyer.
** When Jacob is running a high fever and freaking out, [[Music/TenaciousD Kyle Gass]] helps fill his tub with ice.
** One of the partygoers is comedian [=Reggie McFadden=].
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* TooSoon: In a 2015 retrospective on the film, Creator/TimRobbins said that one of the reasons he thought it didn't do well at the box office was how the film's violent, harrowing scenes in Vietnam didn't jibe with the national mood in the fall of 1990 during the run-up to the Gulf War.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the partygoers was comedian [=Reggie McFadden=].

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* RetroactiveRecognition: RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Film/HomeAlone Macauley Culkin]] has an uncredited role as Jacob's son.
** How about Creator/LewisBlack showing up for three seconds as the doctor who comes to help when Jacob has his mortally high fever?
** Eriq La Salle (''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Benton) and Creator/VingRhames play two of Jacob's fellow veterans, before either of their actors had those roles.
** Creator/JasonAlexander also has a small role as the lawyer.
** When Jacob is running a high fever and freaking out, [[Music/TenaciousD Kyle Gass]] helps fill his tub with ice.
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One of the partygoers was is comedian [=Reggie McFadden=].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the partygoers was comedian Creator/ReggieMcFadden.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the partygoers was comedian Creator/ReggieMcFadden.[=Reggie McFadden=].
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the partygoers was comedian Creator/ReggieMcFadden.
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** Michael Apted, Creator/SidneyLumet and Creator/RidleyScott all tried to get the project green-lit during its several year period of non-production.

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** Michael Apted, Creator/MichaelApted, Creator/SidneyLumet and Creator/RidleyScott all tried to get the project green-lit during its several year period of non-production.



** Music/JenniferLopez, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.

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** Music/JenniferLopez, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Music/{{Madonna}}, Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.
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** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/DonJohnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.

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** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' ''Literature/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Creator/DonJohnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.
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** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Don Johnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.

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** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Don Johnson, Creator/DonJohnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.

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* TheCameo:
** Creator/LewisBlack has a minor but memorable role as Jacob's doctor.
** Perry Lang appears as [[spoiler:Jacob's assailant in Vietnam.]]



* UncreditedRole: Macaulay Culkin appears as Jacob's son Gabriel, despite him being a fairly important character he was not credited, this may have been due to difficulties with his father and manager Kit Culkin.

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* UncreditedRole: Macaulay Culkin Creator/MacaulayCulkin appears as Jacob's son Gabriel, despite him being a fairly important character he was not credited, this may have been due to difficulties with his father and manager Kit Culkin.



** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Don Johnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.
** Music/JenniferLopez, Music/{{Madonna}}, Andie [=MacDowell=], Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.

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** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/AlecBaldwin, Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Don Johnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.
** Music/JenniferLopez, Music/{{Madonna}}, Andie [=MacDowell=], Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.

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* TheCameo: Perry Lang appears as [[spoiler:Jacob's assailant in Vietnam.]]

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* TheCameo: TheCameo:
** Creator/LewisBlack has a minor but memorable role as Jacob's doctor.
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Perry Lang appears as [[spoiler:Jacob's assailant in Vietnam.]]
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* TheCameo: Perry Lang appears as [[spoiler:Jacob's assailant in Vietnam.]]

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* MissingTrailerScene: Teaser, theatrical and TV trailers show several scenes deleted from original cut;

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* MissingTrailerScene: Teaser, The teaser, theatrical and TV trailers show several scenes deleted from original cut;


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* UncreditedRole: Macaulay Culkin appears as Jacob's son Gabriel, despite him being a fairly important character he was not credited, this may have been due to difficulties with his father and manager Kit Culkin.
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** Music/JenniferLopez, Music/{{Madonna}}, Andie [[==McDowell=]], Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.

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** Music/JenniferLopez, Music/{{Madonna}}, Andie [[==McDowell=]], [=MacDowell=], Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.
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Jacob's and Jezzie's sex scene.

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** Jacob's and Jezzie's sex scene.

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* TroubledProduction: Bruce Joel Rubin's script was considered "unfilmable" for 15 years, while ''Sight & Sound Magazine'' called it the best unproduced script in Hollywood. Adrian Lyne bravely tackled the confusing, crazy story and managed to distill it and ground it in reality.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[Creator/HieronymusBosch Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought audiences would find such imagery silly.

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* TroubledProduction: DeletedScene: In original script, there was a scene where Jacob burns down some army headquarters building in fit of rage. This scene was filmed but deleted and was never released, although a picture of Jacob holding the torch and gasoline can from this deleted scene was shown in Bravo's ''Series/OneHundredScariestMovieMoments'' where the film is discussed.
* MissingTrailerScene: Teaser, theatrical and TV trailers show several scenes deleted from original cut;
** A disfigured man attacks Jacob with knife, this scene was originally in the beginning where after he is almost run over by subway train Jacob goes into men's room where he finds one man raping another while second one pulls a knife on him. Scared Jacob then escapes from the subway.
** Jacob is sitting in his mail van and reads a book when suddenly he sees bag of mail starting to move. Originally in this scene some homeless man was sleeping inside the van and when Jacob finds him he takes him out of the van and gives him some money.
Jacob's and Jezzie's sex scene.
** An extra line from Frank when he is talking with Jacob on the phone; "Maybe the demons are real."
** A longer version of "Hospital From Hell" scene. While he is on gurney pushed through some hallway Jacob asks; "Where are you taking me? Where am i?"
** A deleted antidote scene which is available on special edition DVD/Bluray. In this scene Michael gives Jacob antidote which causes Jacob to start hallucinate the blood dripping on him and monster crashing through the ceiling.
** While the theatrical trailer shows shot of Jacob screaming "Who are you" from deleted Jezzie's transformation scene (available on special edition), the teaser trailer shows alternate version of the scene with Jezzie's face getting disfigured and her turning into different looking demon then in the deleted scene.
* SavedFromDevelopmentHell:
Bruce Joel Rubin's script was considered "unfilmable" for 15 years, while ''Sight & Sound Magazine'' called it the best unproduced script in Hollywood. Adrian Lyne bravely tackled the confusing, crazy story and managed to distill it and ground it in reality.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ThrowItIn: According to director Adrian Lyne, most of the dialogue in the opening scene between the soldiers was improvised on set by the actors themselves, especially the conversation between George and Jacob about masturbation.
* TooSoon: In a 2015 retrospective on the film, Creator/TimRobbins said that one of the reasons he thought it didn't do well at the box office was how the film's violent, harrowing scenes in Vietnam didn't jibe with the national mood in the fall of 1990 during the run-up to the Gulf War.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** According to
Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[Creator/HieronymusBosch Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought audiences would find such imagery silly.silly.
** Michael Apted, Creator/SidneyLumet and Creator/RidleyScott all tried to get the project green-lit during its several year period of non-production.
** Candidates for Jacob Singer included Creator/RichardGere, Creator/TomHanks[[note]] He turned it down in order to star in ''Film/TheBonfireOfTheVanities'' [[/note]], Creator/DustinHoffman, Don Johnson, Creator/AlPacino and Creator/MickeyRourke.
** Music/JenniferLopez, Music/{{Madonna}}, Andie [[==McDowell=]], Creator/DemiMoore, and Creator/JuliaRoberts were considered for were considered for Jezzie.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[Film/HomeAlone Macauley Culkin]] has an uncredited role as Jacob's son.
** How about LewisBlack showing up for three seconds as the doctor who comes to help when Jacob has his mortally high fever?
** Eriq La Salle (''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Benton) and Ving Rhames (Marsellus Wallace of ''Film/PulpFiction'') play two of Jacob's fellow veterans, before either of their actors had those roles.
** Jason Alexander also has a small role as the lawyer.
** When Jacob is running a high fever and freaking out, [[Music/TenaciousD Kyle Gass]] helps fill his tub with ice.
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* TroubledProduction: Bruce Joel Rubin's script was considered "unfilmable" for 15 years, while ''Sight & Sound Magazine'' called it the best unproduced script in Hollywood. Adrian Lyne bravely tackled the confusing, crazy story and managed to distill it and ground it in reality.
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** Jason Alexander also has a small role.

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** Jason Alexander also has a small role.role as the lawyer.
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** How about LewisBlack showing up for three seconds?

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** How about LewisBlack showing up for three seconds?seconds as the doctor who comes to help when Jacob has his mortally high fever?
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[Creator/HieronymusBosch Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought audiences would find such imagery silly.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[HomeAlone Macauley Culkin]] has an uncredited role as Jacob's son.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: [[HomeAlone [[Film/HomeAlone Macauley Culkin]] has an uncredited role as Jacob's son.



** Eriq La Salle (''{{ER}}'''s Dr. Benton) and Ving Rhames (Marsellus Wallace of ''PulpFiction'') play two of Jacob's fellow veterans, before either of their actors had those roles.

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** Eriq La Salle (''{{ER}}'''s (''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Benton) and Ving Rhames (Marsellus Wallace of ''PulpFiction'') ''Film/PulpFiction'') play two of Jacob's fellow veterans, before either of their actors had those roles.



** When Jacob is running a high fever and freaking out, [[TenaciousD Kyle Gass]] helps fill his tub with ice.

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** When Jacob is running a high fever and freaking out, [[TenaciousD [[Music/TenaciousD Kyle Gass]] helps fill his tub with ice.

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