According to editor Jay Cassidy, Sean Penn allowed Jack Nicholson to make editing choices for two weeks without Penn's involvement, trusting Nicholson's eye for filmmaking, being a director himself.
The movie concludes with the dedication "For my friend, Henry Charles Bukowski, jr. I miss you. - S.P." Sean Penn was a close friend of the writer and poet.
Final film to unite Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston. The other films were: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981) and Prizzi's Honor (1985).
Jack Nitzsche's last film score before he died 5 years later from a stroke.
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