Trivia / Nowhere to Run

• Creator Backlash:
  • Jean-Claude Van Damme later said:
  The script was...not that good. The writer told me he was going to fix everything. I was in his house, he shook my hand, he promised me, but he didn't fix it.
  • Joe Eszterhas disowned the final film:
  The script was taken and destroyed many years later by Jean-Claude Van Damme. It lost its sensitivity, it lost everything. I don't like to remember that movie.
• Hostility on the Set: Rosanna Arquette did not like working with Mr. Van Damme.
• Mid-Development Genre Shift: The film was originally a character-driven drama without action sequences, the only retaining element being an escaped convict who falls in love with a neighboring widow and becomes a father figure to her children.
• Money, Dear Boy: Rosanna Arquette stated that she did the film because the good roles were few and far between.
• What Could Have Been: The role of Sam was originally meant for Mel Gibson.
• Working Title: Pals.

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