Poison Ivy

Drew Barrymore failed to attend her first audition. Director Katt Shea wanted Drew for the part of Ivy, and arranged another audition which Drew Barrymore also failed to attend. After Shea spoke with Drew's agent and told her she was no longer interested in her for the lead, she pleaded with the director to give Drew another chance. Drew ended up auditioning at Shea's home, not knowing that the director had already decided she had the job.

At the start of the film, a dog has been run over by a car. To put it out of its misery, Ivy kills it. As she does, blood splashes on Sylvie's face. However, in the next shot, the blood is nowhere to be seen.

For the network TV version, an interminable amount of extraneous footage was added after Ivy and Sylvie get a ride home from the guy who puts Sylvie in the back of his truck. After knocking on the window, Sylvie turns around and the subjective camera catches blocks and blocks of trees and houses going by.

Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Folks!/K2/One False Move/Poison Ivy/Leaving Normal (1992)