When referring to a site for a planned convention center project, Alfonso Coretti mentions "some millionaire's kid, a little s**t-for-brains." The project would become the Javitz Center, and the millionaire's kid is Donald Trump who owned the option on the rail yard site that the Center would eventually be built upon.
Based on the Vertigo comic.
This is Andrea Berloff's directorial feature film debut.
While based upon the comic of the same name, the plot is very similar to the real life Westies gang, particularly the wives of Jimmy Coonan & Mickey Featherstone. After their husbands were arrested and sent to prison, Edna Coonan, possibly along with Sissy Featherstone, decided to take up the gang's collection activities.