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* TheCastShowoff: Walken is given several opportunities to show off his dancing skills, though he appears a little confused on how to dance to [=80s=] R&B.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was MASSIVELY criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St. John got booed off the stage.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was MASSIVELY massively criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St. John got booed off the stage.
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* ExtremelyLengthyCreation: Creator/AbelFerrara and screenwriter Nicholas St. John worked on the screenplay for five years.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie was made at a time when New York's crime rates were still pretty high until Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor in 1994.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The movie was made at a time when New York's crime rates were still pretty high until Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor in 1994.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was MASSIVELY criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St St. John got booed off the stage.
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* BigNameFan: Music/TheNotoriousBIG used the moniker "Frank White" in many of his songs.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: James Russo turned down the part of Jimmy Jump. Creator/LaurenceFishburne, who had already been cast as Thomas Flanagan, persistently begged Creator/AbelFerrara for an audition for the part. He got the part just by coming in looking exactly as he does in the film and did not have to audition.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: James Russo Creator/JamesRusso turned down the part of Jimmy Jump. Creator/LaurenceFishburne, who had already been cast as Thomas Flanagan, persistently begged Creator/AbelFerrara for an audition for the part. He got the part just by coming in looking exactly as he does in the film and did not have to audition.
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* RealLifeRelative: Creator/AbelFerrara's young adopted daughter plays Flanagan's daughter in the wedding sequence.
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* BigNameFan: Music/TheNotoriousBIG used the moniker "Frank White" in many of his songs.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was MASSIVELY criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St John got booed off thestage.stage.
* CastTheRunnerUp: James Russo turned down the part of Jimmy Jump. Creator/LaurenceFishburne, who had already been cast as Thomas Flanagan, persistently begged Creator/AbelFerrara for an audition for the part. He got the part just by coming in looking exactly as he does in the film and did not have to audition.
* HeyItsThatPlace: The shootout between the Chinese gang and Frank's crew was filmed in the same alley featured in ''Film/ChinaGirl'', also directed by Creator/AbelFerrara, in Downtown Manhattan.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $5 million (Estimated). Box office, $2.5 million. While the film went on to be a CultClassic, the film was MASSIVELY criticized on release. It was so bad that at one of the premiere screenings, Creator/LaurenceFishburne and writer Nicholas St John got booed off the
* CastTheRunnerUp: James Russo turned down the part of Jimmy Jump. Creator/LaurenceFishburne, who had already been cast as Thomas Flanagan, persistently begged Creator/AbelFerrara for an audition for the part. He got the part just by coming in looking exactly as he does in the film and did not have to audition.
* HeyItsThatPlace: The shootout between the Chinese gang and Frank's crew was filmed in the same alley featured in ''Film/ChinaGirl'', also directed by Creator/AbelFerrara, in Downtown Manhattan.
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