History Trivia / MiracleMile

* DeletedScene: An early moment was cut where Julie chastises Harry for smoking, which is why Harry flicks his cigarette away later. This would have made Julie indirectly complicit for Harry missing his alarm and later answering the phone call.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally intended to be the plot of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' before it was decided to remake four stories from the series instead. Had it gone in that direction, the ending would have been changed to Harry waking up realizing it was AllJustADream... only for it to [[GroundhogDayLoop start all over again]] with him answering the phone like he did in the beginning.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally intended to be the plot of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' before it was decided to remake four stories from the series instead.
** Had it gone in that direction, the ending would have been changed to Harry waking up realizing it was AllJustADream... only for it to [[GroundhogDayLoop start all over again]] with him answering the phone like he did in the beginning.

* DeletedScene: Cut from the film was an earlier moment where Julie chastises Harry for smoking, which is why Harry flicks his cigarette away later. This would have made Julie indirectly complicit for Harry missing his alarm and later answering the phone call.

* DeletedScene: Cut from the film was an earlier moment where Julie chastises Harry for smoking, which is why Harry flicks his cigarette away later. This would have made Julie indirectly responsible for Harry missing his alarm and later answering the phone call.

* DeletedScene: Cut from the film was an earlier moment where Julie chastises Harry for smoking, which is why Harry flicks his cigarette away later. This would have made Julie also indirectly responsible for the plot.

** The last shot of the movie was [[spoiler:the light of the bomb]] coalescing into two diamonds that spin away with a little twinkle. De Jarnatt had included that in an attempt to make the ending a little more upbeat. Producer John Daly convinced him to remove it to keep the impact of the ending.

** Originally the elevator scene had a bit more to it. A man (played by actor Joe Turkel) and a woman were to enter and go down to the bottom of the building where chaos is breaking out before Harry and Julie go up, the entire time the man is quoting ''Literature/DantesInferno''. Ultimately the sequence was cut for pacing.
** Creator/NicolasCage and Creator/JenniferTilly at one point were considered for the leads.

** In the first draft of the script Harry was an older man who's motivation was returning to LA after 15 years to see his kids playing in a jazz stage band when the plot kicks off. This evolved into the sub plot with Julie's grandparents reconciling with each other before they exit the film.

** Originally in the script Harry was an older man who returned to LA to see his kids playing in a jazz stage band after 15 years. This would end up evolving into the sub plot with Julie's grandparents reconciling before they exit the film.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Delayed. Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham maintained a friendship for decades after filming the movie and became a couple at some point in the late 2010s.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The kid calling his dad on the phone? That's [[Franchise/MassEffect Kaiden Alenko]]!

* RetroactiveRecognition: The kid calling his dad on the phone? That's [[Franchise/MassEffect Kaiden Alenko]], aka Creator/RafaelSbarge!

* RomanceOnSet: Delayed. Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham maintained a friendship for decades after filming the movie and became a couple at some point in the late 2010s.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The film didn't even earn half of its minuscule budget of $3.7 millions. It could be easily attributed to both [[InvisibleAdvertising lack of any marketing]] and [[AudienceAlienatingPremise somewhat confusing premise]].

* DevelopmentHell: The film was for years considered one of the best scripts ''never filmed'' and gained an infamous reputation as such in Hollywood. Then it was passed to be ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', only to end up in another limbo. Eventually, De Jarnatt, who wrote the script in the first place, bought it back. After argument with execs from Creator/WarnerBros he literally started walking from studio to studio to get funding.

* BoxOfficeBomb: The film didn't even earned half of its miniscule budget of $3.7 millions. It could be easily attributed to both [[InvisibleAdvertising lack of any marketing]] and [[AudienceAlienatingPremise somewhat confusing premise]].

* BoxOfficeBomb: The film didn't even earned half of its miniscule budget of $3.7 millions. Could be easily attributed to both [[InvisibleAdvertising lack of any marketing]] and [[AudienceAlienatingPremise somewhat confusing premise]].
* CreatorKiller: Steve De Jarnatt was reduced to directing and writing few random episodes of TV series after the film bombed. And he quit doing even that by 2006.

* DevelopmentHell: The film was for years considered one of the best scripts ''never filmed'' and gained an infamous reputation as such in Hollywood. Then it was passed to be Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie, only to end up in another limbo. Eventually, De Jarnatt, who wrote the script in the first place, bought it back. After argument with execs from Warner Bros. he literally started walking from studio to studio to get funding.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This was originally intended to be the plot of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'' before it was decided to remake four stories from the series instead.

* CreatorKiller: Steve De Jarnatt was reduced to directing and writing few random episodes of TV series after the film bombed. Amd he quit doing even that by 2006.

* VindicatedByCable: Thank God for the VHS release.

* DevelopmentHell: The film was for years considered one of the best scripts ''never filmed'' and gained an infamous reputation as such in Hollywood. Then it was passed to be Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie, only to end up in another limbo. Eventually, De Jarnatt, who wrote the script in the first place, bought it back. After argument with execs from Warner Bros. he literally started walking from studio to studio to get funding.