Trivia / Jury Duty

For the film:

• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $21 million. Box office, $17,014,653. A serious blow to director John Fortenberry, writer Neil Tolkin and star Pauly Shore's careers, and it's the final film to feature Billie Bird.
• Creator Backlash: Stanley Tucci hated filming this movie so much that he wrote a screenplay for his idea of a "better movie", which would end up becoming Big Night, his directorial debut.
• Creator Killer:
  • John Fortenberry's career never fully recovered and was relegated to TV and direct-to-video fodder with the only film A Night at the Roxbury being a Cult Classic.
  • Neil Tolkin wouldn't write another screenplay until 2002's The Emperor's Club.
  • This would also be Pauly Shore's first box office bomb in a starring role, and alongside Bio-Dome underperforming shortly after, would lead to him disappearing completely from theatrical films until the 2000's.
• Not Screened for Critics: And has the honour of having a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Star-Derailing Role: This film along with Bio-Dome marked the end of Pauly Shore's relevance as an actor.
  • Billie Bird would only do another acting role, a guest appearance in the short lived Bob Newhart sitcom George and Leo in 1997 before retiring and passed away in 2002 at age 94.