- Harrison Ford was considered for the role of Will Dormer (Al Pacino).
- Jonathan Demme considered directing.
- Emily Perkins is credited as Emily Jane Perkins. Her name is, in fact, Emily Jean Perkins.
- Just two weeks after the film was released in Bulgaria, it premiered on the Bulgarian HBO.
- Will Dormer's name comes from the Latin word "dormire" - to sleep.
- Detective Will Dormer's surname may be derived from the Latin verb "dormire" (and subsequently the Spanish verb "dormir"), which means "to sleep".
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- SPOILER: Some more explicit or dark details were changed from the original Norwegian film such as: the dead dog Dormer shoots in this film is alive in the original; Dormer does some reckless driving to scare the dead girl's friend, in the original he grabs her between the legs; Dormer and the hotel clerk share their thoughts a lot in the film, in the original they flirt a lot and he almost rapes her; the extremely downbeat ending in the original has been changed.
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