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Casey's house, where everything takes place, is in a suburb of Houston, Texas.

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This film was released shortly after critic Roger Ebert reviewed Very Bad Things, another dark comedy with a similar style, which premiered in October 1998 and was also produced by Polygram Filmed Entertainment, the company behind this film. Both Very Bad Things and this film appeared on Siskel & Ebert's list of the worst films of 1998.

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Body count: 13 (including the flashback scene in which six people are killed). Four people were killed in Casey's house: Dallas (shot by Billy Hill), Billy Hill and the Rasta Man (both shot dead in the garage by Kasarov), and Kasarov himself, killed by the Jamaicans Casey called to take the drugs and the money and to avenge the Rasta Man. The convenience store clerk killed by Dallas during the film's opening. Nick, Kasarov and the Cop at the start of the film are the only people killed off-screen in the film.

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The late Roger Ebert hated this film so much that in a segment about the films shown at the Toronto Film Festival in the fall of 1998 on his show "Siskel & Ebert," he almost literally condemned it. He found the film "disturbing," and his biggest complaints were the racist stereotypes and the gratuitous violence in the film. The film barely got a theatrical release and went literally straight to video and cable, appearing almost immediately in 1999.

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The short jacket Dallas wears in the film's opening resembles Letterman's jacket and has "CUNT" written on the back.

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As part of its production design, the film is filled with vivid colors and costumes in muted shades such as gray, teal, beige, brown, mint green, burgundy, red, yellow, black and blue.

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When Casey looks at his watch at the airport, the day and name of the film Thursday appear on the upper part of the watch face.

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The payphone Nick uses to call Casey late at night is the same phone seen before Nick dies at the hands of Kasarov and the other LAPD officers. The first time, the phone is perfectly taped up with duct tape; the second time, it is almost split in two and the phone barely hangs on the tape.

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The details of Dallas's version of Nick and Casey's last job differ from Casey's version. According to Dallas's story as Nick tells it, Ball-Peen's apartment was very colorful, luxurious and lavish, and the woman coming out of the bedroom was at least beautiful. According to Casey's account, the apartment was boring, shabby and dirty, and the woman in the bedroom looked like a drug addict in a bathrobe with messy hair.

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When Casey's wife leaves for work at around 8:30 in the morning, Nick arrives about half an hour later. Roughly, the Rasta Man disguised as a pizza delivery man, The Shrink and the rest of Nick's associates, including Dallas and Billy Hill, all arrive at Casey's house within an hour or less of each other. The corrupt police officer Det. Kasarov is the last to visit Casey, at 6:00. And the longest gap between one character talking to him is about two hours, meaning everything takes place in Casey's house between 11:30 and 16:00. Also during this time, Casey speaks with Nick on two separate occasions and with his wife Christine once.

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There is a noticeable difference between gangster Casey and architect Casey, especially in his appearance and demeanor. His hair is longer and in a ponytail, he wears an earring, and his yuppie version is a suburban man with a normal haircut who wears a golf shirt and khakis. Throughout the film, however, there are subtle hints that the "old" Casey is starting to return, including smoking weed with the Rasta Man before the Rasta Man tries to kill him and Casey gains the upper hand and seizes his gun, telling Dallas his alleged version of what happened in Ballpeen's apartment that night before the psychiatrist has sex with Ballpeen, taking out Billy Hill, disposing of the bodies in his garage after Kasarov's visit, and speaking as powerfully as he once did to the Jamaicans and himself, and wearing a black leather jacket, a white T-shirt and jeans and having taken Dallas's Lamborghini when he picks Christine up from the airport.

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This was the fourth consecutive film starring Thomas Jane in which his character gets involved with someone connected to drugs or crime. These films include Face/Off, Boogie Nights and The Last Time I Committed Suicide.

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When Paula Marshall began working on this film, she had just finished a season of the hit series Spin City, starring Michael J. Fox. Apart from the flashback scene in which she and Thomas Jane, with his longer hair and colored streaks, meet at the diner all night, she also wears the hairstyle and outfit she wore on that show.

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When Detective Kasarov comes to talk to Casey, he brings a shopping bag with something in it. That something was Nick's head inside a clear plastic bag full of blood. This resembles Seven, starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, in which the biggest revelation at the end of the film was the box with the head, a moment writer/director Skip Woods was probably paying homage to when he wrote the scene.

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Casey is subjected to torture twice within an hour. The first is by Dallas, who sexually tortures him, and Billy Hill, until Casey gets free of his duct-taped hands and beats him with a cast-iron skillet.

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Ball-Peen's apartment number is 666.

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The grip of Nick's gun bears an image of a nude woman, seen before the police enter the store and again in the scene where he hides the gun on a cardboard box under the counter before getting into the front seat of Casey's car.

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The money Nick stole from the corrupt LAPD officers was the 1.2 million dollars he hid in Casey's car for safekeeping.

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