Michael Caine said of this movie in a 2002 interview with "Venice Magazine", "That was a lovely little film, but it was too small for its own good, really. It got lost. It was the sort of film, were it made today, that would be great as a film for HBO, or something. But at the time, it just got lost in the system."
Samuel L. Jackson appears very briefly as a three-card monte dealer, on the street, with one quick line of dialogue.
Roger Ebert described this movie as being "Verbrechen und andere Kleinigkeiten (1989) crossed with Wall Street (1987)".
Vincent Pastore can be seen as an extra, shoving past Michael Caine at Grand Central Station at the beginning of the movie.