Despite its all-star cast and directed by an Academy Award-nominated writer, this went direct-to-video.
The clock behind Christopher Lloyd on the thirteenth floor office reads 10:04, the same time frozen on the clock tower in Back to the Future (1985).
When Neal first sees his birthday gift, a red BMW convertible, the music wanders to the same few notes as in Retour vers le futur (1985) (also written by Bob Gale) when Marty opens the garage to see his new truck.
The film's story bares similarities to the book Gulliver's Travels in which Gulliver visits a succession of city states each satirising different human foibles and political systems. This is mirrored with the various hitchhikers and towns along Interstate 60 which satirise such things as lies in advertising, the war on drugs, the overly pompous art "experts" and overly litigious American culture