| 1 | * CreatorBacklash: Creator/PeterDavison said in an interview in 1998 in relation to the movie that he didn't believe Creator/MichaelWinner knows how to put a film together and had he been asked now to be in it he'd "run a mile". He also said he didn't get on particularly well with Winner. At the very least, Creator/PeterDavison and Creator/NicolaBryant are ashamed at ever having participated in the film, and reportedly several of the other cast members were as well. |
| 2 | * CreatorBreakdown: Creator/MichaelWinner came up with the basic storyline after a relationship of his had ended. Speaking to Tim Sebastian of Creator/TheBBC in June 1999, Winner revealed: |
| 3 | -->We all have people we'd like to kill. Sometimes we want to kill them for a long time and sometimes it just lasts the few seconds that they're cutting you up, or being a nuisance. A girlfriend parted very nastily, and I thought "I really wouldn't mind killing you" and five or six years later I thought, "I still wouldn't mind". |
| 4 | * CreatorKiller: This film's negative reception led to director Creator/MichaelWinner retiring from the film industry and becoming a food critic (though for what it's worth, Winner later claimed that he had intended to retire anyway). |
| 5 | * HostilityOnTheSet: Creator/NicolaBryant described Creator/MichaelWinner as an ogre, and Creator/PeterDavison also said that he didn't get on particularly well with Winner. The crew considered having t-shirts printed with "I'm a f***ing moron". This is what Winner would often shout at them. |
| 6 | * NoBudget: Reportedly the film was only even made in the first place because Creator/MichaelWinner financed it out of his own pocket, and the minimal budget is evidenced by the fact that it's shot on video, and the same two or three home interiors are used over and over again with the bare minimum of re-dressing. |
| 7 | * PosthumousCredit: Creator/OliverReed died before the film was released. |
| 8 | * SameVoiceTheirEntireLife: In a flashback scene featuring the younger versions of Chris Rea and Creator/JohnCleese, the actors dubbed themselves over the younger actors. |
| 9 | * StarDerailingRole: This was the first and last time singer Chris Rea acted in a major motion picture as well; combined with the failure of ''The Road to Hell: Part 2'', also released in 1999, it nearly killed off his career for good, but he later recovered. |
| 10 | * WhatCouldHaveBeen: Early discussions for the lead role suggested Neil Morrissey or Creator/MartinClunes, the stars of ''Series/MenBehavingBadly''. However, when Creator/MichaelWinner met Chris Rea on a beach at Sandy Lane, he was chosen instead. |
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