Directed by: Tom Holland, Tom HoIland
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Robert John Burke, Bethany Joy Lenz, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Time Winters
Continuity mistake: Before Halleck eats the cursed pie, a fork appears next to the pie between shots.
Continuity mistake: The position of the gypsy changes after Billy hits her.
Continuity mistake: After Halleck hits the gypsy, she leaves no blood on the windshield, but in the next shot there is blood on it.
Continuity mistake: The position of the gypsy changes after Billy hits her.
Billy Halleck: Richie, you're not going to hurt anybody, are you?
Richie Ginelli: No. But Billy, if I'm gonna help you with this, you don't get to ask that question again.
Trivia: An alternate ending that more closely follows the book ending was shot, but it was not well-received by the test audience. In the alternate ending, Billy is angry with his wife but because he blames her for the accident and for not believing him when he tells her about the gypsy curse, not because she's having an affair with Dr Mike. Billy's daughter does inadvertently eat the cursed pie and Billy, knowing she was going to die, also ate the pie, thereby committing suicide. The production company removed the alternate ending and went with the ending where Billy gets his wife and the doctor to eat the pie.
Question: How could Richie get the gypsy's dogs to eat the strychnine laced food? Shouldn't the dogs have been able to smell it?
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Answer: I believe strychnine is odorless, so a dog would not be able to smell it. At the same time, it apparently has a bitter taste, which would question why a dog would ingest it - but some dogs tend to "swallow" or gulp food without chewing it, so may not notice the strychnine's bitter taste.
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