Trivia

On the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) on January 14, 2019, Samuel L. Jackson listed Mitch as his favorite role.

Geena Davis and then-husband director Renny Harlin checked how long she could hold her breath in their bathtub to prepare for the "water torture" scene.

In the first draft of the script, the name "Sam Caine" was not an alias used by Charly Baltimore (as it is in the finished film), but was instead a creation of her mind, as an anagram of "amnesiac".

Shane Black became the first writer to sell a script for $4 million. He later admitted that this caused a lot of envy among his fellow screenwriters, as well as accusations of commercialism. He voluntarily retired from the blockbuster industry for almost a decade as a result.

One of the movie's original locations was a historic, grand hotel in Muskoka, Ontario, the one-hundred-year-old Windermere House. During filming, however, the hotel caught fire and burned to the ground. The heat from the film lights were initially blamed for causing the blaze, but it was never proven that the lights started the fire.

Renny Harlin: [Finland] A phone booth has writing on the side that says Hell Sinki, as in Helsinki, Finland.