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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/MelissaGeorge as Jenny.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/MelissaGeorge as Jenny.

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* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Creator/PeterFonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as Soderbergh felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.

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* AcclaimedFlop: The film was a critical hit, but was not a financial success.
* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $10 million. Box office, $3.2 million.
* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Creator/PeterFonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as Soderbergh Creator/StevenSoderbergh felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.adequately.
* StillbornFranchise: Creator/StevenSoderbergh claimed that had the film been a success, Wilson's last lines of dialogue to the passenger sitting next to him on the plane back to England set up the plot for a sequel, in which he sought revenge against the men who sent him to prison.
* ThrowItIn: Valentine's line "I learned how to skate when I was a little boy" was an ad-lib from Creator/PeterFonda. Right after the take, Fonda explained to Creator/StevenSoderbergh that his parents hired Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie to train him how to ice skate. Evidently the training was a complete failure.
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* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Creator/PeterFonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.

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* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Creator/PeterFonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director Soderbergh felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TerenceStamp and Peter Fonda. Wilson's appearance as a young man is footage from Ken Loach's ''Film/PoorCow'', and Valentine's intro music is "King Midas In Reverse", whose lyrics include "He's Film/EasyRider with a curse".
* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Peter Fonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally written with Creator/MichaelCaine in mind.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/TerenceStamp and Peter Fonda. Wilson's appearance as a young man is footage from Ken Loach's ''Film/PoorCow'', and Valentine's intro music is "King Midas In Reverse", whose lyrics include "He's Film/EasyRider with a curse".
* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Peter Fonda, Creator/PeterFonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally written with Creator/MichaelCaine in mind.mind.
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* ActorAllusion: Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. Wilson's appearance as a young man is footage from Ken Loach's Film/PoorCow, and Valentine's intro music is "King Midas In Reverse", whose lyrics include "He's Film/EasyRider with a curse".

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* ActorAllusion: Terence Stamp Creator/TerenceStamp and Peter Fonda. Wilson's appearance as a young man is footage from Ken Loach's Film/PoorCow, ''Film/PoorCow'', and Valentine's intro music is "King Midas In Reverse", whose lyrics include "He's Film/EasyRider with a curse".curse".
* DeletedRole: Ann-Margret shot scenes with Peter Fonda, as his ex-wife. These scenes were not used in the completed film, as the director felt he had already established Fonda's creepiness adequately.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally written with Creator/MichaelCaine in mind.
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* ActorAllusion: Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda. Wilson's appearance as a young man is footage from Ken Loach's Film/PoorCow, and Valentine's intro music is "King Midas In Reverse", whose lyrics include "He's Film/EasyRider with a curse".

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