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".

Screenwriter Shane Black sold the script for the movie with the intention of Renny Harlin directing it and Geena Davis starring in it. Harlin then told him that he and Davis were contractually bound to make Cutthroat Island (1995) first, which became one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time. Black later stated that this may have caused bad advertisement that worked against this movie as well.

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.

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