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Striking Distance (1993) More at IMDbPro »

• Co-star Robert Pastorelli accidentally blurted out the big plot twist during an appearance on "Late Night with David Letterman" (1982) long before the film was released.
  
  
• Originally, the lead role was to be played by Ed Harris. It was then rewritten for Robert De Niro and, finally, Bruce Willis.
  
  
• At various stages of production the film was known as "Three Rivers" but was eventually released as "Striking Distance".
  
  
• On an appearance in May 2004 on "On the Record with Bob Costas" (2001), Bruce Willis apologized to the movie-going public for this film, saying that "it sucked".
  
  
• The shotgun Hardy uses to take control of the barge is a Mossberg 500 Marine.
  
  
• The Pittsburgh Police badges are plastic resin casts of actual PPD badges. The props crew was given 4 badges to use, and thus all of the badges are one of only 4 numbers. This was done with the agreement that all casts and molds had to be returned to PPD so they could be destroyed once filming was complete.
  
  

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