- Cast the Expert:
- Jackie is a bodybuilder, and so is her actress Katy O'Brian.
- The musclehead who hits on Jackie and then gets into a short fistfight with her is played by "The Dean of Mean" Keith Jardine, a former mixed martial artist.
- Dueling Works: With Drive-Away Dolls, another crime thriller set in the last year of a decade in the 20th century (1999 and 1989, respectively) following two romantically-involved young women who unintentionally get entangled in the criminal underworld.
- Irony as She Is Cast: Jackie becomes addicted to injecting steroids for bodybuilding. Katy O'Brien quit competitive bodybuilding partly to avoid having to resort to steroid usage.
- Playing Against Type: Dave Franco usually plays comedic or romantic roles. Here, he plays a pathetic, philandering wife-beater.
- Queer Character, Queer Actor: Both Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian are queer, and their characters are in a lesbian relationship.
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