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** Picture it, my friends: Creator/KimBasinger as Geri. Creator/MartinSheen as Mick. ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.

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** Picture it, my friends: Creator/KimBasinger as Geri. Creator/MartinSheen as Mick. ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.
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* BigNameFan: Creator/BrianDePalma is a fan of the movie and featured its poster in a scene in ''Film/BlowOut''.
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* OldShame: The acting didn't work out too well for Don Scardino (Mick), but he's become a successful TV director, winner of two Emmys for ''Series/ThirtyRock'', where he's also a producer.
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** Lieberman's original script called for the movie to be set in rural New England. A combination of unseasonably bad weather and budget restrictions resulted in production being diverted to Georgia, necessitating a last-minute rewrite of the script.

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** Lieberman's original script called for the movie to be set in rural New England. A combination of unseasonably bad weather and budget restrictions resulted in production being diverted to Georgia, necessitating a last-minute rewrite of the script. By that point, most of the actors had already been cast, hence the [[OohMeAccentsSlipping blatantly fake]] DeepSouth accents.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Picture it, my friends: Creator/KimBasinger as Geri. Creator/MartinSheen as Mick. ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.

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Picture it, my friends: Creator/KimBasinger as Geri. Creator/MartinSheen as Mick. ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.

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* BigNameFan: Creator/BrianDePalma is a fan of the movie and featured its poster in a scene in ''Film/BlowOut''.




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** Lieberman's original script called for the movie to be set in rural New England. A combination of unseasonably bad weather and budget restrictions resulted in production being diverted to Georgia, necessitating a last-minute rewrite of the script.

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* InspirationForTheWork: The film was inspired by an incident in Jeff Lieberman's childhood in which his brother fed electricity into a patch of earth, causing earthworms to surface.



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Picture it, my friends: Kim Basinger as Geri. Martin Sheen as Mick. ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Picture it, my friends: Kim Basinger Creator/KimBasinger as Geri. Martin Sheen Creator/MartinSheen as Mick. ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.Allegedly.

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* StarDerailingRole: The only film role for R.A. Dow (Roger) and Fran Higgins (Alma).

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Picture it, my friends: Kim Basinger as Geri. Martin Sheen as Mick. ''Sylvester friggin' Stallone'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.

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* ParodyRetcon: Jeff Lieberman claimed the film was a "goof" movie and when ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' mocked it that "you can't goof a goof."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Picture it, my friends: Kim Basinger as Geri. Martin Sheen as Mick. ''Sylvester ''[[Creator/SylvesterStallone Sylvester friggin' Stallone'' Stallone]]'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: The cast ''really are'' running for their lives when the tree falls through the house.
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* OldShame: The acting didn't work out too well for Don Scardino (Mick), but he's become a successful TV director, winner of two Emmys for ''Series/ThirtyRock'', where he's also a producer.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Picture it, my friends: Kim Basinger as Geri. Martin Sheen as Mick. ''Sylvester friggin' Stallone'' as Roger. It very nearly happened. Allegedly.

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