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• Best Known for the Fanservice: This film is considered one of John Hughes's lesser works and is generally only remembered for the copious fanservice it makes of a young, Jennifer Connelly, particularly the scene where she rides a mechanical horse in a tight white tank top.
• Director Displacement: While John Hughes wrote and co-produced the movie, he was not the director. The fact they used his name so much to bring attention to the movie while also ignoring most of his actual input is one of many reasons he didn't think of this movie very fondly.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Especially amongst modern viewers, chances are you saw this movie because you saw one of the many fan-made music videos using scenes from this movie. You probably also saw it because you agree that 20-year-old Jennifer Connelly is gorgeous to say the least.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Can't have a John Hughes movie without a cameo from John Candy, this time playing the manager of Target interviewing Jim.
  • William Forsyth spends one scene chewing scenery before walking out of the film.
• Retroactive Recognition: Frank Whaley would become slightly more recognizable as Brett in Pulp Fiction, AKA the poor fella dared to “say ‘what’ again” by Samuel L. Jackson.
• Signature Scene: Josie riding a mechanical horse is the scene everyone knows when they only know the film for its fanservice.