- Larry Cohen worked on the script while he tried to get his screenplay Phone Booth sold. In a New Yorker article he says he wrote the film with the intention that it would be the direct opposite to Phone Booth (Phone Booth is about a man trapped on a phone in a booth, while this movie is about a man who is still trapped on a phone but can go anywhere). However, his friends told him that he had written the same screenplay twice.
- The tattoo on Ryan's right arm is the Japanese Character for "Loyalty" and "Honor", the defining heroic trait of this otherwise completely ordinary boy.
- Movie Goof (continuity error): As Ryan drives through the construction site with the window completely rolled down mud splashes up against the car and covers the entire driver's side door as well as the windshield yet Ryan remains completely free of any signs of mud.
- Several references to New Line Cinema (the financing studio) throughout the film: - New Line Chairman Robert Shaye has a cameo as the irate man in the police station. - Ricky's backpack is that of The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring. - At the kidnappers' house, the New Line Cinema movie Final Destination 2 is playing on the television. - Producer Dean Devlin has a cameo as the cab driver who drives Ryan.
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