This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
- In the scene where Helen sits down onto a shovel handle, she didn't sit in
the way she was expected to do, so the SFX people had to morph the image to
make it look like the shovel handle was pushing up into her chest.
- 'Meryl Streep' (qv) accidentally scarred 'Goldie Hawn' (qv)'s cheek with
a shovel during the fight scene.
- 'Tracey Ullman' (qv) appeared in the trailers as a bartender who is also
Ernest's girlfriend. After filming what director 'Robert Zemeckis' (qv)
referred to as a ``saccharine ending'': Ernest and Ullman escaping to
Europe, Zemeckis decided to opt for a darker ending, and Ullman's character
was one of seven or eight actors with speaking roles that was cut.
- DIRTRADE(Robert Zemeckis): [citation]: The shots in the psychiatric
clinic where Helen is brought look exactly like those in
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)" (qv).
 
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