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Go (1999)

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• Writer 'August, John' had originally intended "Go" to be a short film. The original screenplay was made up basically of the "Ronna" part of the script. The other two sections were added to explain why Simon went to Las Vegas and who Adam & Zack are.
  
  
• In the scene where Zack is trying to convince Adam to help carry Ronna's body, he tells him that it's just a scene and to, "Say hi to Molly in wardrobe". This is a reference to Molly Grundman who was key set costumer in the film.
  
  
• The director picked the grocery store that the movie was filmed in because of its "run-down, big city" quality. When the producers paid the owner of the supermarket for permission to film there, the owners took some of that money and repainted and repaired the store, for a more "hollywood" look. The director and producers were understandably unhappy with this, since the only reason they picked the store was how it looked in the first place. The producers, after getting consent from the store, hired a crew to bring the store back to what it had looked like before. The finished product is what you see in the film.
  
  

• Although it's not necessarily the reason for the title, "go" is common slang for speed (Methamphetamine).
  
  
• Sex is repeatedly a bad omen. Ronna and Todd talk about sex as a metaphor for betrayal in all of their scenes ("I don't give my best friends head"); Simon is having sex when the hotel room catches fire; Zack and Adam talk about how they both cheated on each other with Jimmy and getting their revenge on him before accidentally running Ronna over; Todd and Claire on the stairs before they meet the strip-club bouncers.
  
  
• Director Doug Liman originally did not want to cast Scott Wolf in the movie because Katie Holmes was already signed, and he did not want the movie to star two TV actors. However, he saw him talking in a hallway with Jay Mohr and realized that the chemistry between the two would be good in the movie.
  
  
• When Adam is trying to make room in the trunk, there is a brief shot of a box of Tide that is pasted over with the Confederated Products label.
  
  
• In the last cash register scene you can clearly see a man wearing a Civil Air Patrol t-shirt, with a message to remain "Drug Free".
  
  
• 'Sarah Polley' has said in interviews, she only took the role because she loved the line in the opening scene: "...and look how far it got you."
  
  
• The license plate 2GAT123 which appears in this film also features in Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Traffic (2000), Pay It Forward (2000), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Crazy/Beautiful (2001), L.A. Story (1991),"Two and a Half Men" (2003), and S.W.A.T. (2003).
  
  
• Jay Mohr, who has a lead role in the movie, originally wanted to be the drug dealer and continued to push for the dealer after he learned he got the lead.
  
  
• Timothy Olyphant, who plays Todd, thought the character needed a tattoo, after talking it over with the director, Doug Liman, Doug thought it was a bad idea. The next day, Olyphant showed up with a temporary tattoo that the make-up department had. Liman ended up liking it and it stayed in the movie. It appears on the left side of his neck; it's a pair of flaming dice
  
  
• When Wolf and Mohr are talking in the supermarket about the cheating girlfriends Wolf says, "Isn't it ironic," to which Mohr replies, "don't you think," which is a line from the Alanis Morissette song "Ironic".
  
  

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